Kyrie Irving: we already named a city after him!

[F Gump]

The quote from Stein:

"No one in Dallas will come out and say it in these terms, obviously, but Irving is potentially just a rental."

He said there is no contract promise from either party at this point. .

What Stein says makes sense. No biggie, frankly.

The fact that "Irving is potentially just a rental" is Stein's comment, not that of the Mavs. And he did get them to say there is "no promise" but what can they say, as that would be illegal to have (and foolish to admit if they did) at this point.

There's NOTHING in there that even remotely suggests the Mavs don't expect to re-sign Kyrie when the time comes.

YOUR paraphrase was something very different, which misquotes Stein's message completely as if he said the Mavs EXPECT not to re-sign Kyrie, as what is the "likely" outcome (your term).  [NOTE - See note below, as Kamm later corrected his wording in the post in question to say "possibly" instead of "likely. The idea that the Mavs do know it is possible for Kyrie not to sign does make sense, and certainly not concerning.]

Thanks for coming with the exact quote. But you should edit your completely misleading commentary in that post.

ADDED - I see from your post later that you did go back and edit your post to say "Stein reported that the Mavs are well aware that they are possibly renting Kyrie" and that you just made a mistake. Thanks for cleaning that up!