Part of me turned on Exum so that I don't get my hopes up for a breakout only to watch something ****** happen or for him to play bad. Kind of like a reverse jinx. With Conley and DM there is less pressure to perform... I will still count anything we get from him as a found money (either on the court or in trade).
I wish we would have negotiated that deal a little harder and it was closer to 6-7M or he was non-guaranteed in the final year...
Fair enough. I wish they had got an extra year on the deal as a team option. But I am guessing Exums camp didnt want that and was betting on himself. They signed up to slightly above MLE deal since that is what a bunch of teams would have offered him IMO. I am guessing most of those would have been 4 year deals as well. But who knows, all a guessing game.