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

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I think young Luka wasn't willing to adjust his game to the presence of another star who needed the ball some on offense.  Luka had always been the sun and everything had always revolved around him.

I think Porzingis thought of himself as the unicorn at the time and wanted to be treated as such.  That didn't work out next to Luka.  The Celtics version of Porzingis is pretty phenomenal.  

I think they both required some maturity and experience.  I think if you brought Porzingis back now it would work much better.  

Dinwiddie is a decent player.  It's crazy we traded Porzingis for a decent player and one of the league's worst contracts and we still included a draft asset.  Cuban must have been using a psychedelic when he approved that trade.

well said.  KP was not healthy here so that is the main reason it did not work out.  I mentioned at the time if we traded him at the wrong time, but than we had the WCF run.   

KP wasn't efficient due to his health, but my main thing is we treated him like DFS.   As in, he would get the ball when he was open.   For a guy of KP level, those guys like to touch the ball.   You could feel the frustration when he didn't touch the ball for a few minutes and then launched a 27 foot three when he did touch it.

KP has been great this year and has been a key difference maker.  Now can he stay healthy?  We will see.   The gamble was well worth it for Boston as they look like the best team when KP is healthy.