08-02-2021, 03:29 PM
(08-02-2021, 03:24 PM)Kammrath Wrote: But that number was reported as much or MORE often than the Mavs connection to Lowry. So why believe the Mavs connection but not the contract numbers?
It's not binary. It's not either ALL true, or ALL false.
Like you, I think there's a ton of negotiating that goes on in the media during this period. I think the fact that this negotiation is happening is a sort of proof that they were interested, tbh. But, it's still negotiation.
I think what you're suggesting (which, if I understand you, is that Dallas allows agents to pretend they're in the market for their clients to up the bidding) does go on, but I have a really hard time seeing it going down that way on the scale of Lowry this past week or with Walker back in the day.
With smaller-time players? Absolutely!