I think this is the most frustrating part of all is that we sat on our hands (Dan is the ultimate culprit). If the guy wanted a trade after winning the finals, we could've gotten a king's ransom. The exit would've mirrored that of Neymar leaving Messi and Barcelona, with Neymar leaving to forge his own legacy elsewhere (and a lot of money) and Messi wishing him the best. There would've been 3 years remaining (not including the PO) on a guy who just hit one of the biggest shots in finals history. They needed LeBron to re-up so they panicked. IF Kyrie's idiotic desire to leave a championship team to play elsewhere happened after 2016 then we misplayed our hand because his mental make-up/maturity wasn't going to magically change. If true, I wonder if it happened before or after KD decided to join Golden State.
The problem is everything you said is based on incomplete evidence, and is purely speculation and assumption, and probably based on your personal opinion/bias regarding Gilbert.
I haven't seen anyone even attempt to explain or lay out a timeline about who knew what, who said what, when they said it and knew it, and what exactly was said.
There is so much more to this than what anyone outside the principle parties know, and chances are the people involved from Gilbert to Kyrie to Lebron probably don't even know all aspects of what all went down.
So to jump to an assumption that Gilbert knew everything and simply chose not to act? And, not knowing the underlying logic and motivation for everyone's part in this? People who already have a low opinion of Gilbert will put this all on his plate, same goes for Kyrie, Griffin, and Lebron. People will automatically make assumptions based on incomplete evidence, personal bias, and whatever reports they choose to believe.
I for one will admit that my knee-jerk reaction is to put it all at Kyrie's feet without really knowing all the facts or history leading up to this. I might be right and Kyrie might be an immature douche, or he might not. People assuming Gilbert is the culprit in everything from Kyrie wanting to leave, and the exit of Griffin, will make automatic assumptions to slant available reports to indicate that's how it went down. Some people somehow figure Lebron is the driving force behind all of this.
The most likely reality is that it is bits and pieces of all of the above, and even the parties involved have different perceptions and versions of everything that has been going on between Gilbert, Griffin, Kyrie and Lebron.
IDK if anyone ever will know, or maybe the whole thing comes out in the wash. If Chris Parker could write a book about this it would probably be a best seller
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