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

[JamesConway912]

In the old days, I'd be very interested in a player like Ayton.  Or Ben Simmons.  Or John Collins. Or Tobias Harris.  Guys who could become serviceable parts of a good team, maybe even a championship team, but had contracts significantly bigger than their performance.

But, what the new CBA is teaching us is that there is no room on a championship roster for underperforming contracts.

Maybe we'd be tempted to exchange some of our negative-value contracts (Bertans, McGee, maybe THJ? Or Bullock?) for other teams' negative contracts.  But Ayton's contract is REALLY negative, IMO, and hangs around on your books for a long time.

Even before the new CBA guys like Harris, Simmons and Collins would have actually been improvements over the even more horrendous contracts the Mavs have given out/traded for over the years.

The biggest issue is the competitive disadvantage we had and still have at the decision maker positions in the organization. Just way too much incompetence all around, especially with Cuban who is obviously way in over his head attempting to compete with the other organizations‘ highly professional front offices.