This is just….wow. I guess he preferred being in the lottery every year when it was “his team”? LeBron is responsible for most of his notoriety. Swap him out for Lillard the past few years and then Dame would be a huge star and Irving would probably be less of a star than Lillard has been in Portland. He really wasn’t especially great before LeBron came.

That supermax provision sure is doing a great job of keeping stars with their teams! Maybe they’re not all about money to the extent we thought? In this case they’re also about being on average teams with a better chance to stuff the box score.

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