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

[SleepingHero]

I do not mean to sound like Dr. Phil... but this right here sounds like your actual issue? You hate the Lakers so much and care more about any potential benefits for LAL, but not the the potential pitfalls of the deal to LAL? More importantly, you aren't first thinking about how such a deal might benefit the Mavs more than anyone else.

Don't be a fox with sour grapes bro. The Lakers have had nothing to do with the Mavericks' past misfortunes.

You are 100% on the money and I'm not ashamed of it. 

My hate for the Lakers far predates any recent Mavs misfortunes. Heck it predates when the Mavs were even good in the 2000s. The Lakers are the bane of the NBA and whenever they are bad, the league (and the coverage of it) is 10000000000000000000x better.

Unfortunately they've only been bad this most recent decade. Of course the majority of my disdain lies with the media and how they cover them. The refs giving them the easiest path to victory every single game doesn't hurt either. 

Either way, my point stands. Only way I accept a deal from the Lakers is if they dissolve their franchise when they do it.

Last sentence is hyperbole but you get my point. Unless the deal is making the Lakers enter a rebuild I don't really want to help them improve. Even if it "improves" the Mavs, which your hypothetical doesn't really accomplish that.