The dirty lowdown…
link: Nico is an out of control maniac who needs to be fired
I did actually post that a week or two ago that the Spurs tried to hire him on at least 3 separate occasions (I wonder what year/s it was?). No one commented. Pretty crazy that the Spurs wanted him. What has he actually done to warrant that kind of attention, though?
A decision of this magnitude doesn't get made without, if not the behest of ownership, then minimally the approval. Harrison is the fall guy for a collaborative effort, including the PR nightmare.
To be clear, he's far from blameless for not maxing out the return (should have been Reaves and the Lakers second unprotected 1st, with Gafford going the other way).
Their MAGA owners seem to know little to nothing about the league, so I don't think they knew the caliber of asset they had at their disposal and just decided they weren't Doncic fans and didn't want to pay his looming $345M extension.
Well, he comes across as a complete and utter cuck, so maybe that was the appeal for the Spurs. Someone who RC and Pop could control but hang out there to take the blame for everything.
lol. Yeah, maybe. I don't see the appeal on why these teams have wanted him for their GM jobs.
What is the theory here that this was an ownership decision (contrary to all of the reporting and common sense) rather than the GM’s decision? To save money? Luka’s would-be supermax is tiny compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars the mavs will lose due to them becoming irrelevant for the next decade, especially when you factor in the loss in the value of the franchise.
Theory is it was to grease the wheels with the league front office for a move to Vegas, where they want to be. Get Luca to the golden franchise Lakers and they probably hated Luca anyway for being all foreign and .
I mean, even the move to Vegas part of this theory is stupid. Why would any professional team move from a really big market like Dallas, to a really small market like Las Vegas? All of this stuff is so dumb.
It’s obvious that Nico didn’t like Luka, or Luka’s people. Nico knew AD really well. He traded a guy he didn’t like for a guy he does like. No need to resort to these conspiracy theories at this point. Just read the article coming out now about the mavericks. Nico even ostracized Dirk’s people.
Apparently because the Mavs new owners have business in Las Vegas and getting an NBA team there would make them richer. I don't know if it's that impossible to believe. This trade is so bad that a conspiracy theory like this makes more sense to me than an NBA GM trading Luka Doncic for basketball reasons, or even worse, because he didn't like him, and owners being like "yeah, the dude is a , get rid of him. No biggie".
Last edited by DAF86; 04-23-2025 at 12:17 AM.
Silver wants to improve the ratings and the Lakers are the go-to boys for the commish
he doesn't want them to have a star five years in the future - he needs it now
the rest is mostly theater
Well, "the league" is really the owners/board of governors, isn't it? And the NBA comissioner is their employee. I just don't see how it would be in the best interest of the other 28 franchises/owners for the Mavs to basically gift Doncic to the Lakers.
Theory is that having a professional team having a home arena with gambling facilities will pull in billions and billions in revenue. It’s not a basketball decision but a financial one. Mavs will then just be part of a gigantic entertainment complex.
The theory is that, while Harrison may have had the impetus, it wasn't a unilateral decision on his part. Despite all the predictable hit pieces, it'd be naive to think he was the lone gunman here.
I agree with the rest, but again, by the sounds of things, their owners don't know much about sports and may have just decided they weren't paying someone they didn't like/respect that much money.
Lakers vs Lakers - David Stern
There is a non zero chance Doncic doesn't resign with the Lakers. Some weird all around vibes there..
He already lost a ton of money by being traded and losing the SuperMax. He might be willing to take a small haircut to find a team that is a better fit than the TOSB and weak supporting cast in LA.
If Doncic doesn't extend in the summer then suddenly clearing up cap space for 2026 will become very important for some teams. I doubt it though. He's going to get everything he wants in LA. He can sign a 3+1 deal and make up some of the lost money on his 10-year vet contract after that.
LeBron is just being his usual passive aggressive diva crying for even more help. He'll re-sign too.
Luka can make up the money he lost just being in LA , as long as you don't count taxes.
LeBron's gonna hop back on the Cavs bandwagon now that they are contending
The money is one factor, but that Laker team is going to be mid for a long time, and without assets to improve. He’ll have a number of different basketball fits to analyze and evaluate, as a lot of teams have cleared cap for 2026.
Only if he can take a role player role. He's no longer fit to be a #1 or even a #2. The top players on the Cavs are better than him at this point.
It would be funny if LeBron wanted to go back to Cleveland, and Gilbert says “Nah, we good”, paying him back in spades for 2010.
Here's a brutal thought experiment for Mavs fans: what if they held onto Luka this season and then traded him for Giannis?
Luka is a winner. There is a 50/50 chance he resigns, he knows he will never win a le with the lakers. The roster is simply empty.
Luka on an expiring, having lost his supermax and incredibly unlikely to re-sign, has little value to the Bucks. They wouldn't have done it.
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