The Adelsons are scorched earth people. How dare the peons sort of people. Support genocide sort of people. Give enormous money to destroy our government and country sort of people.
Tanking some stupid sports franchise because they're mad the state leg won't give them casinos is par for the course for these goblins.
This article indicates Luka wasn't part of the vision Harrison had for the team (can't read the whole things because it's behind a paywall): https://digginbasketball.substack.co...a-doncic-trade
... A person close to the situation described this trade as the ultimate Harrison power trip, calling him a power-hungry man. Another observer said Harrison removed anyone who held a different view. ... But what’s clear is that there is a Nico vision, and Dončić might be the last—and by far the biggest—piece that didn’t fit into it. There is a well-do ented list of people close to Dončić who have left or were forced out since Harrison took over. ...
I wonder if he'll be the second GM done in by Luka (not in the usual way)
I know it's media's wet dream, but why would James leave an MVP caliber player, in a place he's comfortable, to uproot to a dead end situation?
It's a similar story with Durant, minus the MVP caliber player part. If push comes to shove with him, Rockets, Thunder, Spurs make sense.
It’s been a few days and still can’t over how shocking this is. NBA related news wise, other than kobe losing vs the mountain jordan retiring the first time, and magic getting HIV, I can think of anything this shocking. Maybe Reggie Lewis death, Len bias OD, or bobby Phils crash?
Circling back around for my good friend MannyIsGod.
If the Lakers can just make it through next season, they'll only have 6 players and $86MM under contract in the summer of 2026. I'd have to imagine Lebron retiring by then, but who knows. None of the cap holds going into that offseason are worth hanging on to, the Lakers likely renounce them all and go wild that offseason. Of course, at assumes Luka doesn't opt out and walk himself(I don't think this will happen, for the record).
My guess is that the Lakers look to hodge podge a team together next season with lots of 1-year vet deals and then go into the Summer of 2026 with Max Cap Space. I hope the market completely dries out on them and they're left with no FA's to chase, no matching salary to send out, and no draft picks to lean on. Let Luka play his prime in a barren wasteland of a team in LA.
So much has come out of this. The big one was that Lakers wouldn't put the 2031 first on the table because Harrison denied Lakers permission to speak to Luka's agent to gauge his desire to stay with the Lakers long term. So they refused to add the pick and Harrison agreed. He really didn't want it being leaked at all costs. It's blatant malpractice.
FYI, When you sent this I had been mul asking while reading this thread and didn't know about the trade until you replied. lol. Thanks.My brother. We got the Fox. I no longer give 2 s about Dallas or the Lakers
I know man, I was just messing with you
If the Spurs did that with Wemby I'd be done with them TBH. What the Mavs did is brutal af to their own fans.
Diversity hire. The NBA needed someone with brain damage to run a franchise.
It's certainly a choice to leak nothing but damning hit pieces on your franchise guy after he basically carried the organization since he got drafted.
I'm not really sure how that benefits the Mavs org in the long term besides looking petty AF on top of incompetent tbh
MavFan need to quit on their organization en masse. This is not ok.
Damn, that's actually veto worthy and might be even worth potential sanctions and a ban against both Harrison and Pelinka. This is going to be fascinating.
I’ve been thinking about this. It’s been about 48 hours and nothing has been said by Silver or the league.
As far as substance, this looks dirty as . No open bidding. Not informing JKidd. Not informing Luka’s agent. Not informing ownership until a deal was in place. Not giving Pelinka full access, letting him whittle the package down.
But all that being said, I don’t think the league does anything. It’s not like they traded Luka for Zollins and Bran Ham. Nico can argue that he feels like he got good value, did what’s best for the franchise, and the league has to defer to his judgment. I don’t know the principled response to that that wouldn’t also set some kind of precedent.
League didn't do when those s bag bought the Mavs, why would they care about a single trade, no matter how ridiculous it is?
Traded a player averaging 28/8/8 for a player averaging 26/12/3 while being one of the best defenders in the league.
Unless they can prove some kind of tampering, nothing will happen.
I'm sure lizard Silver is estatic about Lakers getting a generational superstar.
Trades have already been verified by the league.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...llas-mavericks
This is ing nuts. They traded him because he was overweight? What the actual .
So in two years, Nico is working for the Lakers and the Mavs are in Vegas.
So...he is overweight. But he's 25. He's, at worst, the third best player on the planet. He does that is ing magical.
And the fans here LOVE HIM. If there is a player more loved by his fanbase...like...ever, I can't think of it.
This is like Mitch Kupchak announcing he traded Kobe to Denver for Mutombo.
Honestly surprised Ainge didn't pull out of the deal when he found out. I assume he had the right to do that once he knew what the deal he was helping to make happen. Surely he's not so gung-ho about Jalen Hood-Schiafino and two 2nd rounders that he couldn't figure out a way to replicate a similar deal without giving the ing Lakers a lifeline into the 2030's.
Surely Nico doesn't do this trade without ownership approval.
Just shows the league is not compe ive, it's Storage Wars with a basketball.
Nico can argue that he feels like he got good value,
But...he really can't. Nobody believes that.
The guy making the decisions is the owner's son in law. Does he even know anything about basketball? Does he even live in Dallas?
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