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

[hakeemfaan]

More thoughts about Milwaukee. They were facing a situation when Giannis deal was starting to expire and half of league (Mavs included) was preparing for a situation if Giannis doesn't resign. They had their Luka in Giannis, they had their Irving in Middleton and their Lively in Lopez. They didn't go "lets trade for "an Avdija" and hope he will work". They went after perhaps best two way player at the time in JRue. They repeated the task last summer with trade for Lillard.

There are of course differences between Milwaukee and Mavs. They were one of the best teams in the league even before JRue trade with prime Bledsoe and Brogdon (Brogdon was SnT a season before Milwaukee went after JRue). I think they didn't make their versions of KP and Brunson mistakes, although drafting Jabari Parker was a costly mistake. They did lose Brogdon in FA but at least he didn't walk for nothing. They did have a 4th starter level player in Bledsoe.

Mavs have one more season to come to a situation where Milwaukee was before the JRue trade. Irving clock is really not working for them to be very patient.

 You menrtioned Lakers and Miami always dream big. I am saying that they always have the advantage. If you are going to talk about Dame then we have added Kyrie and KP as well.  Things didn’t work out is another thing. The Mavs can be blamed for poor talent evaluation and asset management.  When it comes to thinking big there are literally only 2 or 3 destinations that have an inbuilt advantage.  The rest of the league has to grind and hope they get lucky.