If this is true, Lavine would be off the table. Teams are looking at the CBA and realizing how hard it will be to build a team around 3 max players. The path to adding a fourth impact player seems unclear
Monte made a play for Beal. If he's willing to do that that's all you need to know. He literally tried to trade for by far the worst contract in the league haha. This is called saving face. Also, per that report Siakam is looking at 50 million a year. Siakam is getting money, Monte couldn't be that naive.
I would be out on Siakam at 50 mil.
Yeah, as I've been saying, we're not trading for a third max guy, unless he pretty much vaults us into title contention right away. LaVine/Beal/Siakam do not do that. Just because we checked in on Beal, doesn't mean we were actually trying to trade for him.
And look how poorly that's turned out for the Suns. Backfired straight away and is tanking one of their precious seasons while KD is still at the top of his game.