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Luka to Lakers

Luka had too much power in Dallas and the Mavs didnt want to commit huge cash and 5 years to someone who would own them. The Jimmy Butler saga had some influence on this. The Mavs are also looking at the Rockets down the road and see a great team with no stars who are young and hungry. Nico Harrison already assembled a deep talented roster of players and now he will have more flexibility to do more. The best teams in the NBA now have talented deep rosters who can still win without their best player. See OKC, Celtics, Rockets, Knicks, Cavaliers, Grizzlies. All the superstar laden teams suck now.
 
Interestingly, the Lakers odds of winning the Title this year rose dramatically?? I just don't see it. Their bad defense just got worse, and now they have no size in the middle. I would take the other side of these odds
 
FfldCntyFan said:
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.
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It's fixed, we won't hear the real story any time soon but something shady happened. This won't be the end of Lebron and the Lakers getting hooked up either.
 
If the goal was to make the team less talented, weaken the franchise future, and completely piss off the fanbase then the Mavs hit a home run

A trade so stupid that the most reasonable explanation is some shady shiz
 
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superjohn said:
It's fixed, we won't hear the real story any time soon but something shady happened. This won't be the end of Lebron and the Lakers getting hooked up either.
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Luka wanted to go to the Lakers so no other team could trade for him. Any team would only have him for 1.5 years then he would go to the Lakers anyway. Because he was willing to give up a max extension.
 
Drame said:
Luka had too much power in Dallas and the Mavs didnt want to commit huge cash and 5 years to someone who would own them. The Jimmy Butler saga had some influence on this. The Mavs are also looking at the Rockets down the road and see a great team with no stars who are young and hungry. Nico Harrison already assembled a deep talented roster of players and now he will have more flexibility to do more. The best teams in the NBA now have talented deep rosters who can still win without their best player. See OKC, Celtics, Rockets, Knicks, Cavaliers, Grizzlies. All the superstar laden teams suck now.
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But the Mavs got basically nothing back that will ever help them win
 
aceboon said:
So you trade him for an older player who has also had injury issues throughout his career? This makes no sense but I'm sure we're gonna get plenty of pods out of this from NBA writers doing deep dives

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It makes you wonder how the process that led to this started.

I have to imagine Dallas started shopping him around; who is calling them up out of the blue asking if they’re interested in trading their 25 year old superstar who, as you said, just got them to a Finals?

So then I wonder who they reached out to, if anyone, before the Lakers. And, if they did, I wonder what offers were discussed.

Regardless, they end up talking to the Lakers. I can’t help but picture Dallas saying “yeah we want to shop Luka around, what’ll you give us for him?” And LA goes “uh…” looks around “I guess… AD? Straight up?” And Dallas was like “Done”.

Pretty bizarre indeed.
 
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Rocktheworld said:
It makes you wonder how the process that led to this started.

I have to imagine Dallas started shopping him around; who is calling them up out of the blue asking if they’re interested in trading their 25 year old superstar who, as you said, just got them to a Finals?

So then I wonder who they reached out to, if anyone, before the Lakers. And, if they did, I wonder what offers were discussed.

Regardless, they end up talking to the Lakers. I can’t help but picture Dallas saying “yeah we want to shop Luka around, what’ll you give us for him?” And LA goes “uh…” looks around “I guess… AD? Straight up?” And Dallas was like “Done”.

Pretty bizarre indeed.
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They didnt shop Luka. Lol.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Anthony Davis has a championship and is a top 10 player in the league lol
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For how long? Not much longer.

It's all weird to me. Dallas has promising young players at center. Now has a massive hole where Luka was. LA has no center at all and has two guys who can't stand spending more than a few moments without the ball in their hand. Hard to imagine a much worse fit than Luka and Lebron. Both teams got worse unless more moves are coming.
 
Drame said:
Luka wanted to go to the Lakers so no other team could trade for him. Any team would only have him for 1.5 years then he would go to the Lakers anyway. Because he was willing to give up a max extension.
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Even if this were true (which it's not), you still have him under club control, in his prime, for at minimum two postseasons. I don't care if he wants to retire two years from now - having him for the next 16 months alone would have created an unprecedented bidding war and fetched you a Herschel Walker return and a half.

The only reason I'm not (yet) convinced the league engineered this thing is that it just seems too obvious.
 
Rocktheworld said:
It makes you wonder how the process that led to this started.

I have to imagine Dallas started shopping him around; who is calling them up out of the blue asking if they’re interested in trading their 25 year old superstar who, as you said, just got them to a Finals?

So then I wonder who they reached out to, if anyone, before the Lakers. And, if they did, I wonder what offers were discussed.

Regardless, they end up talking to the Lakers. I can’t help but picture Dallas saying “yeah we want to shop Luka around, what’ll you give us for him?” And LA goes “uh…” looks around “I guess… AD? Straight up?” And Dallas was like “Done”.

Pretty bizarre indeed.
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They didn't shop him around, there was no bidding war
 
Every quote that comes out of the mouth of Nico Harrison is more ridiculous than the last one, he also apparently didn't tell Jason Kidd at all before the trade. Dude is probably going to need a security detail around Dallas.
 
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aceboon said:
Every quote that comes out of the mouth of Nico Harrison is more ridiculous than the last one, he also apparently didn't tell Jason Kidd at all before the trade. Dude is probably going to need a security detail around Dallas.
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Gotta figure the new owners wanted this.
 
HuskyHawk said:
For how long? Not much longer.

It's all weird to me. Dallas has promising young players at center. Now has a massive hole where Luka was. LA has no center at all and has two guys who can't stand spending more than a few moments without the ball in their hand. Hard to imagine a much worse fit than Luka and Lebron. Both teams got worse unless more moves are coming.
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Mavs actually aren’t bad.

Kyrie
Klay
PJ
AD
Lively

And they have a pretty solid bench. I agree the Lakers don’t fit at all and they need a rim protecting big.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
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.
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It seems like they cared more about keeping the trade a secret than doing that. Strange.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Mavs actually aren’t bad.

Kyrie
Klay
PJ
AD
Lively

And they have a pretty solid bench. I agree the Lakers don’t fit at all and they need a rim protecting big.
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Still not better than they were with a healthy Luka. Trade makes little hoops sense.
 
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upstater said:
32 oft injured player for a team that needs to start all over again
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He played in 76 games last year and 44 out of 47 this year.

The Anthony Davis disrespect over this trade has been crazy (from everyone not just this board) lol
 
UCan3 said:
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
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UCan3 said:
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.
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Do you mean late 80s? Because the Bulls started winning titles in 1991.

It's a crazy trade. It's not so much that they decided they didn't want to roll with a guy objectively considered a top-5 player, it's that they ONLY wanted Davis and didn't even bother calling any other teams. Malpractice.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
Mavs actually aren’t bad.

Kyrie
Klay
PJ
AD
Lively

And they have a pretty solid bench. I agree the Lakers don’t fit at all and they need a rim protecting big.
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It's not a bad trade in the short term and very possibly a good one it Luka doesn't get healthy/in shape. And for the Lakers it doesn't make sense in the short term. Now they have two ball hogs and no beast inside.

But when you're trading a 25-year-old generational talent, it's not about the short term.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
He played in 76 games last year and 44 out of 47 this year.

The Anthony Davis disrespect over this trade has been crazy (from everyone not just this board) lol
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Now do almost every other year of his career. If you think he's "fixed" being injury prone as he's entered his 30s as opposed to "just in a lucky good stretch", I'd love to sell you some beachfront property in Arizona.
 
Is Lebron going to put up with Luka's lack of desire to expend any energy on D?
 
nomar said:
It's not a bad trade in the short term and very possibly a good one it Luka doesn't get healthy/in shape. And for the Lakers it doesn't make sense in the short term. Now they have two ball hogs and no beast inside.

But when you're trading a 25-year-old generational talent, it's not about the short term.
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Two ball hogs???
 
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