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

[SleepingHero]

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.

Out of ALL the theories I've read today, yours makes the most sense by far and also explains why Dinwiddie went out of his way to demean the Mavs. 

I guess the Mavs only offered the vet min even though they could've offered more and Dinwiddie is pretty salty.