Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[KillerLeft]

Agree with all of this, but at least LA could actually land a big free agent.  That whole thing with Cuban was such a joke.  I have come around to the theory that it was really just a disguise for Cuban being cheap after winning the championship.

I think it ended up like that, which is why he kept it going long after it made any sense. 

But, at the beginning, I think he had dipped his toes into tampering, and Chris Paul/Dwight Howard coming here as a package was basically a done deal. Then, ORL convinced Dwight the idiot to opt in to avoid getting traded at that deadline (can't remember the year, but I want to say it was the 2012 deadline, and they'd have both been free agents together in 2013) and the whole plan blew up. 

But yeah, it became increasingly obvious for years that Cuban had lost his stomach (or possibly even his ability) to lose big money on competitive teams.