The conversation around having to resign Kyrie for whatever he wants (max money, max length), to me is kinda not the case. We did NOT give up a Kings ransom for him, even though it was definitely enough capital for an asset sparse team to be very unhappy about losing for nothing.
But the bottom line is, Kyrie isn't exactly blessed with choice, and IMO, there are a lot more teams that are likely starting to put him in a similar basket to what CWood is in. He's the superior talent, so that will be there, but for max money, with his issues having rightly or wrongly, now affected 3 consecutive teams? That he wasn't directly responsible for what happened after coming to Dallas, will still be looked at by teams as too much of a coincidence that he's directly been involved in 3 teams going downhill after his arrival.
I don't think any teams with actual cap space that are rebuilding with young teams will particularly want Kyrie. And obviously the teams that are contending that you expect Kyrie to want to go to, will not likely have the cap space to get him. I think the Mavs will have a lot more bargaining power than some people think, and we should think twice about offering him whatever he wants.
If we do some trades around draft, that might heavily affect what we do with Kyrie. What if we can pull off a trade for someone like Siakam? We'd be in an even better position to hard ball Kyrie. I think worst case scenario, he gets offended, and goes in a S&T to a team he wants and we recoup some assets in return. I'd be perfectly fine with that.
But the bottom line is, Kyrie isn't exactly blessed with choice, and IMO, there are a lot more teams that are likely starting to put him in a similar basket to what CWood is in. He's the superior talent, so that will be there, but for max money, with his issues having rightly or wrongly, now affected 3 consecutive teams? That he wasn't directly responsible for what happened after coming to Dallas, will still be looked at by teams as too much of a coincidence that he's directly been involved in 3 teams going downhill after his arrival.
I don't think any teams with actual cap space that are rebuilding with young teams will particularly want Kyrie. And obviously the teams that are contending that you expect Kyrie to want to go to, will not likely have the cap space to get him. I think the Mavs will have a lot more bargaining power than some people think, and we should think twice about offering him whatever he wants.
If we do some trades around draft, that might heavily affect what we do with Kyrie. What if we can pull off a trade for someone like Siakam? We'd be in an even better position to hard ball Kyrie. I think worst case scenario, he gets offended, and goes in a S&T to a team he wants and we recoup some assets in return. I'd be perfectly fine with that.