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

[KillerLeft]

BTW, someone that has directional say in the organization agrees with upgrading the roster now.

Oh, sure. We all want to do that. It’s just that some would rather not make a deal than get fleeced on a bad deal again. If the Mavs bottom out on assets again without a championship roster it’s game over.

Not necessarily aimed at you, because again, I think most of this just boils down to disagreeing over what constitutes upgrading the roster, but some people in your camp make arguments that kind of feel like “if the season ends with a single tradable asset that wasn’t traded, that’s a misspent season.”

Common sense dictates that this viewpoint (extreme as it might be, even strawmanish) is nonsensical. There is absolutely no logical reason to make a bad trade using everything you have available just to be able to say you went “all in.” That’s extremely stupid (no nice way to say it). And again, while I’m sure most people on the other side have more nuanced views than that, it really does feel like that’s the viewpoint we’re arguing against around here sometimes.