Other people would've heard a trade demand from a star player made in (just for example,) July and sat on it, pretending they were standing right next to the dryer when it was made so they couldn't hear it, then sat around like an idiot when the same player publicly demanded a trade in (again, just a hypothetical) September but still sat around like a bunch of assholes while the entire preseason and first month of the regular season got derailed by the utter sideshow the organization was becoming because the (theoretical) head coach/GM literally did not know how to acknowledge someone telling him "no," particularly someone that was supposed to be one of his guys.

I would hate to root for any team that reacted like that.