Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

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Paul continues to want to return to Suns and partner with Booker and Durant, sources said. Nevertheless, Paul and his reps want organization to make a decision well ahead of June 28th deadline to guarantee his deal so that Paul can proceed into marketplace if he’s indeed waived.

FWIW, this feels to me like Phoenix approached CP3 and said ‘we love you dude, but we can’t do the $30.8 for you next year.  New CBA blah blah blah’.  You have a choice.  If you want to go get an MLE job somewhere, you can make $28mm next season, but you can’t do it here because we will S/W you if you want to go.  If you want to stay on a minimum, great, love to have you, but we can’t S/W you in that scenario.  We need to plan around your decision, so you have X days to let us know.  Our base presumption is you are looking for the money, so we will S/W unless you agree to take the minimum.  Have a nice day.