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Luka to Lakers

I've seen a lot of ridiculous trades and trades that don't make sense and several of them involve the Lakers. The Gasol trade was absurd.

I've never seen two superstars traded like this. One guy is Mister Glass aged 31, arguably top 10 in the league. They traded him for 25 year old top 3 in the league.

My buddy who doesn't fark around texted me Davis for Luka and I thought it was a joke. Seriously, what just happened?

One of the goofiest trades in sports history when you consider the stakes.
 
Do the Mavs still talk to that crackpot analytics guy, Bob Voulgaris, who used to work in their front office? He was a professional gambler at one point and got the job in 2018 because of his Twitter posts and then they fired him in 2021 due to conflicts of interest but I wonder if that separation was just cosmetic. He was behind a couple of other weird moves by the Mavs.
 
Scoe said:
Cuban lets Brunson and Luca go wow. Lakers just won the championship, LeBron might win the mvp this year.
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Cuban isn't the majority owner anymore but still - to have those two guys in the same draft and then let them go be the face of the Knicks and Lakers is criminal
 
gsmooth said:
The ESPN announcer Sean Farnham announced it during the Gonzaga-St.Mary’s game. I couldn’t believe it either.
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That’s where I heard it. Then I watched twitter explode for 2 hours straight
 
Feels like nba forced this one with failing ratings and boring game or Mavs GM like dumbest front office guy ever.
 
rip7774 said:
Feels like nba forced this one with failing ratings and boring game or Mavs GM like dumbest front office guy ever.
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Mavs GM was probably given extra money under the table maybe free tickets to see a concert in LA. Maybe he was offered free massages in LA who knows lol.
 
CardiacAndre7 said:
This is the craziest trade of all time, in any sport. Holy ****.
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I am not avid NBA fan but this is like the Bulls trading Jordan in the early 90’s.

He is a generational talent.

Trade him for a 31 year old?

Not sure if there is something we don’t know but this is worst trade any sport I’ve seen in my liftetime.
 
A guy on ESPN this morning (former front office guy, about two decades with a few teams) said that what he didn't understand was that if the Mavs put Luka on the open market (let the rest of the league know they'd listen to offers) they may have ended up with the largest haul ever.

If they were determined to trade him they could have gotten more.
 
Scoe said:
Watch Jimmy Butler will end up on the Lakers I’m calling it.
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I have a feeling he'll end up in Dallas.
 
Only thing that makes sense is Luka wanted to go to Lakers only, agent told to 28 other teams that he wouldn’t resign with them. Even that is absurd. Idk man
 
metsfan2323 said:
Yup, Ratings are down so create some buzz for the glamor team.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist but this one is so off the wall it feels like there are layers to the logic well beyond surface. The NBA has been bludgeoned for its poor product this year like I’ve never seen across pro sports.

From a straight marketing perspective why would Dallas trade him? He’s one of the 2-3 most popular players in the league, draws a ton of fans/interest to the Mavs.

This one only makes sense if Mavs get another player.
 
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Lakers always seem to be involved in the biggest trades. I don't get how this has been a constant thing for the past 20 years or so.
 
aceboon said:
I wonder how Marc Cuban feels about this, no way would he have signed off on this trade if he was still the majority owner. Selling on a 25 year old generational player over conditioning issues is madness.
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At the end of the day, he sold at the top of the market. He's good.
 
This is an interesting wrinkle.

Dallas' GM, Nico Harrison worked for Nike for decades. His last role there (before joining the Mav's as Don Nelson's assistant) was as the personal company representative for Kobe Bryant. With this role he was in constant communication with Kobe's agent.

The Lakers GM, Rob Pelinka, was Kobe Bryant's agent for fifteen years prior to joining the Lakers front office (at Kobe's request).

The two (Harrison-Pelinka) spent more than a decade speaking with each other multiple times a week as basically business partners.
 
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