02-15-2021, 08:07 PM
(02-15-2021, 07:52 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: 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.
He was clearly that guy to the MBT, but the rest of the league didn't even bother to beat the Mavs pathetic offer to the Knicks.
I hear what you're saying, I just hate the mindset that nothing else could have been done. No strings attached contracts like this are what consistently screw teams over and they keep handing them out without learning any lessons. If they're afraid of pissing a player off by negotiating, then piss the guy off and let the tens of millions of dollars make him feel better.