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Dallas trading Luka to the Lakers for Anthony Davis! Utah involved.

Tremendous Upside said:
The more I think about this trade, the more I love it for Dallas. Ballsy move that probably had to be made sooner rather than later.

They gave Luka a million chances. He showed them he can only play an extremely heliocentric brand of basketball, flat out refuses to defend and can’t/won't keep his weight down. In a word, he was unserious. He wasn't going to change. The Mavs simply had enough of his crap.

People keep repeating Luka's "just 25", but he's been in the league for an eternity and has accumulated a huge amount of wear and tear, partly because he's so often playing out of shape. If people think he'll magically turn it around and the rest of his NBA career will look better health-wise than we've seen so far… I don't know what to tell you.

You really see Luka as a healthy, efficient NBA player at 32 or 33? Yeah.

A few years from now, this trade will be seen as a massive win and a tactical triumph for the Mavs. Sometimes you just have to say "No más" when you still can.
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This could all be true, but it is also true that the mavs could have got many more assets for him.
 
Holy hell. I go away for a couple of weeks and THIS happens. I'm not sure what's worse, this or Phoenix and Sacramento passing over Doncic for Ayton and Bagley. In each case, GMs (or owners) were too clever for their own good, passing over the obvious best choice, posing as galaxy-brained contrarians. Dallas managed to convert one of the greatest gifts in NBA draft history into one of the worst trades in NBA history. And right on cue, Davis is out with an injury. So predictable, so dumb.
 
Schrödinger's Gerbil said:
Holy hell. I go away for a couple of weeks and THIS happens. I'm not sure what's worse, this or Phoenix and Sacramento passing over Doncic for Ayton and Bagley. In each case, GMs (or owners) were too clever for their own good, passing over the obvious best choice, posing as galaxy-brained contrarians. Dallas managed to convert one of the greatest gifts in NBA draft history into one of the worst trades in NBA history. And right on cue, Davis is out with an injury. So predictable, so dumb.
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I'm still completely puzzled by it. Can anyone think of a worse deal in all professional sports?
 
Rubashov said:
I'm still completely puzzled by it. Can anyone think of a worse deal in all professional sports?
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Austria's football team qualified for the 1938 World Cup but were forced to withdraw after Hitler's Anschluss and the subsequent disbanding of the team. That's the only thing I can think of that comes close.
 
i am sick of teams helping the lakers including us we should have cut in and offered john collins and 3x 1sts for doncic apparently lakers looking at mo bamba and we waived him he would be a better back up centre than potter this team is so dumb
 
Meh, the league knew they couldn't go too many more years without a Laker's championship, and they needed to bolster LeBron to send him off a champion. I would not be surprised to find out LeBron demanded an improvement and the league facilitated. This is good for all the billionaires as they all share in the TV take, and a better Lakers team leads to better viewership and bigger contracts down the road. Would not be surprised if all the teams agreed to this and they are providing Dallas with compensation behind the scenes. Won't be surprised to see them suddenly fall to somewhere between 10-14 and end up with a top 3 pick magically. I am just surprised it was so blatant a power play from the league to the Lakers. I guess they are done pretending and hiding this **** now. With someone like Trump in office who doesn't even try to pretend he cares about the constitution and the rule of law, it emboldened the other billionaires to follow suit.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Meh, the league knew they couldn't go too many more years without a Laker's championship, and they needed to bolster LeBron to send him off a champion. I would not be surprised to find out LeBron demanded an improvement and the league facilitated. This is good for all the billionaires as they all share in the TV take, and a better Lakers team leads to better viewership and bigger contracts down the road. Would not be surprised if all the teams agreed to this and they are providing Dallas with compensation behind the scenes. Won't be surprised to see them suddenly fall to somewhere between 10-14 and end up with a top 3 pick magically. I am just surprised it was so blatant a power play from the league to the Lakers. I guess they are done pretending and hiding this **** now. With someone like Trump in office who doesn't even try to pretend he cares about the constitution and the rule of law, it emboldened the other billionaires to follow suit.
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Ehh, if it was league mandated, the Mavs would have gotten a better return.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Ehh, if it was league mandated, the Mavs would have gotten a better return.
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Why? And we cannot see what is going on behind the scenes. What they got plus a guarantee of a top 3 pick this year is a pretty decent haul. Plus cash considerations, or who knows what?
 
LogGrad98 said:
Why? And we cannot see what is going on behind the scenes. What they got plus a guarantee of a top 3 pick this year is a pretty decent haul. Plus cash considerations, or who knows what?
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Because the league would want to make it seem more fair. The kind of trade Nico pulled off can only be explained as incompetence mixed with an owner demand.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Because the league would want to make it seem more fair. The kind of trade Nico pulled off can only be explained as incompetence mixed with an owner demand.
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The more I hear the more I think it was an owner thing and Nico is falling on the sword hard (as part of his job). I almost wonder if Luka said something that offended the ownership group and created a riff. Hurting a billionaires feelings can lead to irrational ****. I think its part of the reason the security are removing all the "fire Nico" fans. Its their way of supporting the "good soldier".
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Because the league would want to make it seem more fair. The kind of trade Nico pulled off can only be explained as incompetence mixed with an owner demand.
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That was the point of my post, if you read it. I was pointing out that the league is emboldened to make these moves without worrying about such things as "fairness", just enough to not fully spit in the face of the fans familiar with the rules of the trades, so the "values" just have to barely fit the requirements, no semblance of fairness no longer required. Just doing what they want to.
 
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