\"We had some offers from teams that weren't playoff teams that wanted a veteran leader,\" McHale said. \"He (would have been) in the same position he was here. He wasn't happy about that. We had some offers where we were taking back longer contracts. Roughly the same money, maybe a little bit of a savings over the next year or two, but that third year came in. And in that third year (the summer of 2009), we have an opportunity to be a big player in the free-agent market.\"
I agree that would should have gone much lower than $10 million. From the sound of this the wolves had leverage. They ask him to take much less or he's either a wolf, on another poor team or he is a free agent and it is on him to make up that money in his next contract.
If McHale isn't going to put the Twolves best interests infront of those of a player who has never played a game for the wolves we need a new GM NOW.
