LogFAQs > #975285197

They didn't even need another superstar, but none of those players between simons and mccollum even played for them, and wouldn't have cracked a rotation if they did, that's poor drafting no matter how you slice it. They kept making trades that didn't help them enough. Either way, poor management is to blame, not dame's contract, and the same is true imo for basically any team with a supermax that doesn't get it done.

Luka's deal? The Mavs let brunson go for nothing and had no one to replace the bird space they lost with him. Beal? The wiz also had consecutive top 3 picks including beal, and they flubbed that hard, their drafting was even worse.
The bucks won with giannis, the dubs with steph, the nugs with jokic (though he just signed his). The suns and sixers are probably gonna be competitive for a couple more years with booker's and embiid's deals on the books. I just don't see how supermaxing a guy dooms you to the point we should be shedding $10M off the books to help teams out. I think teams have enough tools to win with those amounts, sometimes they fail to use them correctly.