02-15-2021, 07:52 PM
(02-15-2021, 07:46 PM)loki Wrote: I'm not quite convinced that's true given the ACL injury and the expectation that Dallas would match. But at least force someone to make the offer first.
That's just not the reality of the situation. There are guys that are max RFA's and he was clearly that guy. Rising star, still young, been to an all-star game. He was going to get an RFA max no matter what. It was poor negotiating on MBT's part not to put a bunch of gotchas in there that KP would have just balked at anyways. When you trade for a guy like that you index to offer him a max no strings attached.