Quote from: DaveBrown74 on May 04, 2024, 05:58:24 PMThe season itself was a total nightmare. And so were all the optics involved, whether Barkley was there or not.
Foregoing opportunities to try to better the team's future for the purposes of clinging to a defunct season and keeping up appearances is a typical move by this franchise and one of the reasons it can't pull itself up off the mat.
This is my issue. You state it as fact that they received trade offers for him and turned them down, when there is zero evidence that it happened.