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

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This. I can't believe we're still having to talk about this. 

They were MISERABLE while he was here. They weren't a good team, and it was obviously his fault. I don't really care if it could've gone down a different way (I don't think it could have) because it went down the way it did. It was obvious since the freaking bubble that it wasn't going to work with him, and they traded him a full year after they should have. The whole ordeal was wheel-spinning of the highest order and the primary reason they find themselves having to soft rebuild now. 

It was CLEARLY a mistake to bring Porzingis here. A very, very costly one. Getting him out of here was not the mistake. That was wisdom.

It may have been a mistake in retrospect to trade for him but it was a bigger mistake to trade him for the bag of shit we acquired for him.  If that was the best we could do, then we should have just held onto him and tried to make it work.  The current iteration of Porzingis would have worked well with this current roster.  I honestly don't know if Porzingis would have evolved into the same player had he stayed in Dallas but it's possible he might have.  Better to hold onto an asset that has lost some value than to set it on fire.