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

[KillerLeft]

Presti is the best in the business. If Cuban was smart he would have made a godfather offer to him. 15m (Masai money) would probably more than triple whatever OKC and their cheap owners are paying. But Cuban went the cheapie route with Nico who was probably thrilled to take 2-3M per year.

I think Presti is pretty smart, and is doing his best to make chicken salad with that chicken s___ of a franchise, but...he had his hands on Durant, Westbrook and Harden and has nothing to show for it. He traded the wrong one. Later, when that became obvious, he even raised a stink, claiming their team hadn't had the full ramifications of the salary cap explained to them properly. 

It's really easy to sell, sell, sell and draft, draft, draft. There have been many times when I wish the Mavs had adopted a strategy more like that. However, the only real star player they have was drafted by another team, not OKC, and my guess is they're too far away from actually being good to keep Shai around long term. 

Phase two through like nine of any type of process similar to what OKC seems perpetually stuck in, it seems to me, should be actually harnessing the talent into a competitive team. That's the part I'm not sure he knows how to do. 

In other words, maybe there's a reason he has no choice but to work in OKC. Maybe he's a small time dude who fits a small time franchise. (not meant as a defense of anyone who has ever called shots for the Mavs)