Let's say LMA walks... Monroe and Noah would be a pretty awesome duo because Noah has great passing, both are great pick and roll players, Noah is damn good with running the offense. Or we could toss Max money at Love, which would kinda suck because love is a horrible defender, but has the range to keep defenses honest. Or they could go after Wade and toss max money at him, giving us a line up of Dame, Wade, Aminu, Leonard, Monroe Back ups of: Plumlee, CJ, Von, Fraizer, Crabbe, and Henderson.
Man he must be marvelous at that job, but I can't begin to understand how you pay a guy max money when he just went worse than 1 for 6 (.161) shooting threes in the playoffs. He shoots more than enough threes to hurt the team and not much better the whole last half the season. I didn't look it up right now, but but I think he took more threes this season than anyone in the NBA at the same time begin way down the list in percentage. I don't get it, what the hell is good about this? WTF, are they paying the best mouth piece?
He's not worth this. But what can you do, you have to lock him up and with the cap going up it won't be too bad.
He's 2nd tier for sure, but he's 24 and improving yearly. Considering his impact off the floor and our apparent difficulty in drawing free agents, Dame getting maxed out was a foregone conclusion.
And neither of them retired a champion either. No rings. (Playing devil's advocate. Not worried about Dame in the least. )