(02-12-2024, 04:17 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Spencer Dinwiddie explains why he picked the Lakers over the Mavs: “Let’s say you’re a kid and you get your ass whupped by the bully. Dallas would have been like your mama, like, ‘It’s OK, baby.’ … Lakers are like your dad: ‘Nah, you better go out there and fight ‘til you win.’”
Dinwiddie has some shots for the Mavs. Crazy
Looks like a money thing to me. He is weighing "desire to win" by "willingness to spend (on SD, in particular)."
That sounds like he preferred DAL, but he's miffed because the Mavs didn't offer him more than LA did, even though they could have. So he took the money. The thought is that "DAL could have improved their team, but did not do everything they could have to improve, but LA did. So the DAL FO isn't really trying as hard as they can."
LA offered about $1.5M. Mavs are about $2.66M under the tax line, and still have some of their MLE which is pro-rating downward daily (currently in excess of $3M remains).
If he is a difference-maker, or could have been, he'll be right. If he isn't, he'll just be a guy who took the highest offer, while being bothered that someone else didn't chase him with all they had to spend.
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