Lakers acquiring Luca for AD

[Raven]

legit never heard of Olivier-Maxence Prosper, todays dallas starter

[Raven]

D wins championships... dallas on track to allow 200 points or something

[Spurminator]

Any other FO would get fired for this IMHO.

Dude no other FO would be ALLOWED to do this, they'd pitch it to ownership and the owners would ask if they were high.

[vy65]

There’s a 2028 Dal/Okc pick swap??

[Dod01]

"Rob and I were able to have intense conversations" etc etc.. "It started with a coffee" etc etc.... "We were able to keep it between us" etc etc... "It started with "would you?" "Oh I don't know, would I?" Etc etc... There's no buttering this up. Nico ed over Dallas and intended to help his friend Rob Pelinka and the Lakers as a whole. This is some ed up .

[CGD]

Damn i feel for them. This is 10x worse than nephew.

[jeebus]

imo who knew all those ty spurstalk trade ideas of yesteryear were ahead of their time. "Austin Day, Jeff Errors, and a first for Lebron".

[vy65]

Cavs going for 90 in the first half

[Spurminator]

Cavs -15.5 is the easiest bet I've ever made.

[Raven]

91 POINTS HALF

[vy65]

91 points in a half. Nico broke the Mavs.

[Gandalf]

There’s a 2028 Dal/Okc pick swap??

The trade was already too stupid (not shopping him around for the best deal; this is collusion, just like the Pau Gasol trade back in the day).

That’s before factoring in that Davis is brittle, and as a big, his issues will only get worse. In 2027, he (and most of the Mavs’ best players) will be on the decline—and they owe the following first-round picks:

2027 top-2 protected to Charlotte;

2028 unprotected swap to OKC;

2029 unprotected pick to Houston; and

2030 unprotected swap to SA.

This trade burned Dallas’ future to the ground for no good reason, when they could (and should) have gotten so much more. First Pau to the Lakers for nothing collusion. Then Luka to the Lakers for nothing collusion. Don’t be shocked if we trade Wemby to the Lakers for a bag of Doritos in two years. Fans need to revolt against the NBA and the Lakers. Boycott every Mavericks game and Lakers game.

[scott]

Luka definitely doing the 2+1

[BatManu20]

There’s a 2028 Dal/Okc pick swap??

• OKC owns a Mavs 2028 1st Round Pick Swap.
• Rockets own a Mavs 2029 1st Round Pick Swap.
• Spurs own a Mavs 2031 1st Round Pick Swap.

[itzsoweezee]

Now who is going to gift the lakers a starting center? Mitc Robinson for a 2030 2nd rounder sounds about right

[LeBowen]

This is exactly why this trade has no chance of working.
It's not 2k, these are actual human beings, you can't just everyone over and think the atmosphere won't become toxic.
I bet that by the end of the season not a single player will want to be there. Not because the roster is bad, but because it's just a horrible environment to be in.

Kidd should've hit Harrison with a chair during that press conference and walked out, tbh.

[vy65]

The trade was already too stupid (not shopping him around for the best deal; this is collusion, just like the Pau Gasol trade back in the day).

That’s before factoring in that Davis is brittle, and as a big, his issues will only get worse. In 2027, he (and most of the Mavs’ best players) will be on the decline—and they owe the following first-round picks:

2027 top-2 protected to Charlotte;

2028 unprotected swap to OKC;

2029 unprotected pick to Houston; and

2030 unprotected swap to SA.

This trade burned Dallas’ future to the ground for no good reason, when they could (and should) have gotten so much more. First Pau to the Lakers for nothing collusion. Then Luka to the Lakers for nothing collusion. Don’t be shocked if we trade Wemby to the Lakers for a bag of Doritos in two years. Fans need to revolt against the NBA and the Lakers. Boycott every Mavericks game and Lakers game.[FONT="][/FONT]

I don’t pretend to understand this trade. It’s like Nico intentionally set the mavs franchise on fire.

That said, we didn’t send Kawhi to the Clippers or Lakers. So I’m not that worried.

[scott]

If the NBA were the WWE, and during the Press Conference Nico hit JKidd with a chair and ripped off his shirt to reveal a Kobe jersey underneath... this would all make sense. That's the closest I can come to any logical justification

[Pauleta14]

You are completely delusional.

You need to learn about argumentation

If the only thing u can do is go at people rather than use ARGUMENTS

[Raven]

If the NBA were the WWE, and during the Press Conference Nico hit JKidd with a chair and ripped off his shirt to reveal a Kobe jersey underneath... this would all make sense. That's the closest I can come to any logical justification

[Gandalf]

I don’t pretend to understand this trade. It’s like Nico intentionally set the mavs franchise on fire.

That said, we didn’t send Kawhi to the Clippers or Lakers. So I’m not that worried.

True - but even if they don’t control every team, they control enough to steal championships they shouldn’t. How is this latest trade fair for teams like the Thunder, etc., who built the right way, and now have to fight through the NBA-pet Lakers and their one-sided franchise-player ‘gifts’?

[scott]

NBA record is 186 points. Cavs should go for it.

[vy65]

Today is such a great day.

[LeBowen]

I don’t pretend to understand this trade. It’s like Nico intentionally set the mavs franchise on fire.

That said, we didn’t send Kawhi to the Clippers or Lakers. So I’m not that worried.

If we go with Harrison's re ed assumption that AD is a better fit than Luka, they still had to get at least a couple more FRPs and Reaves because Lakers have tradeable picks.

AD surely wouldn't have accepted the trade (waived his kicker) if he wasn't going to be moved to PF.
But then their roster doesn't really work. They have no ball movement, Kyrie is not a floor general, he's a scorer.

Kyrie and Dinwiddie are the only legit ballhandlers left, just can't work.
Klay is too slow to play guard, looks like Christie/Grimes at SG, Exum and Hardy probably get traded.
Klay/Naji at SF.
AD/Washington PF.
Lively/Gafford C.

They need a triple threat scorer now, but everyone will just fleece them even more in a trade.
Washington seems like the odd man out if AD is the PF, I hope we can get him, would be a perfect fit next to Wemby.

Kyrie has a player option this summer, wouldn't surpise me if he dips, tbh.

[scott]

I do love how this trade has united SpursTalk. It's nice to have common ground and be able to revel in the idiocy of the Mavericks.