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

[SleepingHero]

Dang.  Way too much moral principle, and not nearly enough pragmatism.

Don’t you guys want to win???

I really do want to win.

But the guy nearly beat his girlfriend to death. I can't support a man who puts his hands on a woman like that. I'm all for 2nd chances but he's already gone and assaulted her and nearly violated his probation.

Further, any trade for him now has no benefits since we don't get bird rights. 

I am very certain he'd excel here, and rehab his image to the point another team would be fine giving him a 20+mil a year deal. But he's also going to cost a first, and if you're the Mavs, why would you pay a 1st only to have a team (lets say Detroit) come in the summer and money whip him and you can't do anything about it?

So it doesn't really make sense from a cap perspective right now. 

Again I do want to win. I just think we can win without Miles Bridges ever donning a Mavs uniform.