kingcong95 wrote:DevinVassell wrote:Crazy-Canuck wrote:
He signed with gsw because they had the biggest offer. Nothing more.
Yes, if DLo wanted to team up with Towns he could have very easily signed directly with the TWolves last year as a free agent. So despite the talk of Towns, DLo and Booker wanting to again team up, he instead signed with the Warriors for more money.... thus forcing the TWolves to later mortgage their depth and future to acquire him. This proves the guy couldn't give a rats arse about winning and only about the extra millions he doesn't even need.
The Wolves would have had to dump Wiggins or Dieng to offer 4/107, and they had that deal agreed to until we swooped in with the max. In order to fulfill the Nets' outgoing salary requirements for a sign and trade, it had to be the max, and we also had to take back Graham and Napier, guarantee their salaries, and dump them on the Wolves.
The Wolves could have taken those parameters directly and sent us Wiggins as part of the initial deal, but with DLO's stock at its peak and Wiggins' at rock bottom, we could squeeze them for every pick they had. I don't think Myers was interested in doing that and sending the message that we were going to tank just because we lost KD and Klay.
Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the Wolves had found a way to match our offer.
I saw a piece recently linked to on another GSW forum from a journalist which was basically a then and now thing with Lacob about GSW signing Wiggins, with Lacob having said he would be good at GSW then and saying a reasonably gentle I told you so now, and the journalist himself pretty much saying he himself was wrong about Wiggins. Lacob said DLo was also a gamble but one which didn't come off. Perhaps he is maintaining a charade to foster the GSW being a good destination for players/an organisation which looks after players narrative, but it sounded like they had genuine intentions in regard to seeing whether DLo had anything to offer GSW.
DLo was essentially the only chance for GSW to get anything out of Durant leaving, even if that was only a salary slot, as far as I can see and as your numbers indicate, and the Nets had made the play-offs without Kyrie with him being a fringe all-star (did he eventually make it after being a reserve ?, I have zero interest in the all-star game) and as you say his stock was high, and many considered it was a very bad move at the time to later trade him for Wiggins when they did, which non-GSW fans of the ilk we are discussing still do, and consider he could've/should've/would've brought a better player than Wiggins in trade. I am not saying DLo, a no defense guy who is also something of a chucker a la Monta Ellis, had any place at GSW myself imo he would be horrible at GSW even next to a healthy Steph playing a full season, but don't want to be down on the guy when intentionally or not he seems to have basically done GSW a favor.
