I don’t buy it. Not in this league. Money talks in the NBA. All you need is to get one guy or make one trade. Also, you don’t think players know that Isbia will pay? That likely the only reason Bulter wants to be here.
The really good players will have all kinds of teams wanting to pay them, those guys are not options for bad teams... which we will be.
You are painting a picture where we are the team that signs dudes like Kyle Kuzma and Jerami Grant 40 million a year.
And we won't be able to swing a meaningful trade for top talent for a long long time because of our total lack of assets, this we're already seeing. We've got a star going above and beyond to poison his relationship with his team to force his way here and it doesn't matter because the heat would be better off waiving him than taking the junk we can offer.