2021-2022 AROUND the NBA: GSW Champs [ARCHIVED]

[F Gump]

Man, I don’t know. I realize you have considerable expertise on this. But who woulda ever thought Miami could land Jimmy when they did? Or Philly Harden? 

If the players and agents say Zach wants to be a Mav and Luka is advocating for it, do you really think it can’t happen? (I’m not challenging you, amigo. I’m asking, really? No way?)

It depends on where you want to draw the line. But I'm assuming the Mavs want to get better, rather than simply sacrifice everything they've built so far, to simply add Lavine. 

The silliest is certainly the idea the Mavs are just a smidge away from cap room, to force CHI to the SNT table by the threat of signing him. Assuming they keep Brunson, they would have to find a way to jettison about $90M in contracts, with $0 coming back, to have cap room. Crazy talk.

I also tend to think all these rumors are agent driven in the first place, an ongoing campaign by Rich Paul to keep Lavine in the news and ensure CHI is motivated to offer Lavine the full max salary that he feels he has been deprived of, and badly wants. Only they can guarantee him $212M (others can only offer 157M). Assuming Lavine wants CHI, and they are willing to give him a max, then the rest is just noise getting from here to there.