If Joe Tsai wants to be salty toward Kyrie. I totally get it. But at the same time, the Nets willingly signed that same Kyrie Irving who had already had a history of missing a bunch of games each season, and who had already left two other teams on not the best of circumstances and pretty much said, even though it didn’t work out with those other teams, there’s no reason to think it won’t work out here. Let’s give him the key to the franchise. Some of this falls on them.
Same way if he secures a multi year deal this summer and tells whichever team or gm whatever they want to hear to secure the bag and proceeds to act up afterward. Like can you really feel bad for that team when his track record is there.
Aside from that. Assuming the Lakers were willing to make the best offer. That whole were specifically not going to trade him here out of spite because that’s his preferred destination is silly. I’m not saying you go out your way to accommodate a trade to his preferred destination. But if his preferred destination makes the best offer, you bite your tongue and do what’s best for your organization.
