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

[ItsGoTime]

I don't know that I agree, sorry. Again, you're arguing a technicality that I find disingenuous. 

If (going by your memory, I don't remember it this way) Detroit SAYS they'd like him back, but then gives the money and role he wants to someone else, I don't know that this information actually lines up. Seems kind of like the Mavs wanting Dragic...IF he's willing to admit he's a geriatric and is only coming to waive a towel. That's basically the same as saying you don't want him, to me.

We had a similar argument back in the day (not you and me, necessarily, but certainly I remember Kamm being on the wrong side of this one) about Chandler during the summer of 2011. "Hey, Tyson, we know you just won us a ring by proving to be the piece we've been looking for all these years who can do the dirty work down low, freeing Dirk up to do his thing, and we'd love to have you continue doing that for us, but only for one year, because next summer we think we have a shot at Chris Paul and Dwight Howard, so, you know...we obviously can't pass that up. You're fine to re-sign for one year and THEN get lost to try to find a multi-year deal somewhere else after what will probably be not quite as magical a season, right? RIGHT??? 

With (I presume) a straight face, there were people back then saying TY left the Mavs, not the other way around. WILD.

I can’t understand where the disconnect is on this. If Det doesn’t want him back, they don’t offer him anything or don’t even talk to him (like Dallas didn’t), but there was discussion from agent to team about a contract. They wanted him back for the role he was already playing (backup PF/C) at a more appropriate salary compared to his production. They showed why they wanted that because they signed Grant, a superior player.

Dallas wanted Tyson back, they just wanted Howard more and couldn’t get him for a year. They offered Tyson the contract they wanted him for. The craziness to me of that whole fiasco was people thinking the max 1 year contract was a fair offer. The equivalent to that story would be for people to say Dallas didn’t want Tyson. Both can be true, Dallas wanted TC AND Dallas wanted Howard more.