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

[SleepingHero]

If true, this tells us a couple of things, imo:

1) Dallas feels they MUST dump McGee in order to add Capela, for financial reasons. Hence the search for a 3rd team.

2) I suspect "overpay slightly" is gonna really suck from our POV, because he's likely talking about the cost of getting Capela (from an ATL interested party POV), and we now have to consider the cost of getting that 3rd team to swallow McGee from our POV. That's draft capital that I was hoping they'd avoid paying. 

That's how I'd interpret things, anyway. I hope this isn't true.

You're pretty much on the nail here. The slight overpay is the cost of getting McGee off the team. I wonder why the Mavs don't just eat the salary in a waive and retain the other assets at this point.