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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 5185293, member: 833"]
I am not the huge Luka fan that others on this board are.  He is an incredible player, but Luka’s conditioning is clearly an issue, just look at him.  I have always had a bad taste in my mouth over him running off Porzingis, who is one of the best centers of this era.  I wonder if Luka is a little more difficult to manage than we know about, and giving him a “bet the franchise” contract was too much risk for the Mavericks front office.

That said, why didn’t Dallas shop Luka if they didn’t want him long-term?  They would have gotten a lot more back.  Davis is a great player, but he is getting old and his stats are slipping a little already.  32 or 33 is when most NBA stars start to really decline.  Klay Thompson is one example.  Khris Middleton is a 3 time all star that plays on minutes restrictions and, while still good, is declining rapidly at 33.  Even a freak of nature like Al Horford made his last all star team 8 seasons ago.

The NBA has the top athletes in the world, and even a barely perceptible slow down can turn a player from a star to just a good player, or worse, in a season.  The Mavericks should have shopped Luka if they didn’t want him.
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