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

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Not sure why ATL would do this deal now if they wouldn't do it draft night and move up 5 spots

1 ATL may indeed not have an interest in trading Capella, but they must do SOMETHING, and it will all come at a price to them, because they have to erase 10-11M in payroll
2 Just to be clear, ATL didn't get that offer from DAL on draft day. What the talks included, we can't be sure, but OKC had a more suitable and better offer anyhow, so we'll never know what a Capella deal would have required then.
...See the Stein quote above: "Trade talks between the Hawks and Mavericks were buzzing until 24 hours before the draft. The Mavericks rejected "all proposals involving Collins," per @TheSteinLine. That tells me that they would have had to be discussing OTHER players to Dallas instead, so Capella may indeed have been close to being moved. I would assume the equation for DAL would have been to end up with Lively OR Capella (because ATL would have wanted Lively with the pick), and what does it cost to go from one to the other besides the move from 10 to 15. I am guessing Mavs dangled Bertans (who would solve ATL payroll issues via s-w) and 10, ATL wanted more on the side, and Mavs just refused.
3 And that's now history. If you strike out with one set of demands, and then desperately need a deal later, your asking price may get way more attractive.
4 If I can get Brown, don't want an ATL deal anyhow, fwiw. They can't do both, because they use the same cap room.