Mavs Trade Luka to Lakers

[atlantacowboy]

Luka puts up 1/3 of Lakers points in a playoff win where they hold Minny to 85 points.... (Defense wins Championships)
Luka looks sharper than even last year. Perhaps he knew what he was doing slowing himself into the season and taking the rest afforded by injury.....

If he was serious about defense winning championships , how can he keep Kyrie? It's just a line he threw at the new owner to get Luca out. No way Nico survives this offseason. Fans are in full revolt demanding his head, and it's only going to get worse the deeper LA goes in the playoffs.

 

[DFWJC]

I am glad Cubans relegated to shark tank . The new owners simply didn’t want to pay Doncic it’s dollars and cents and the GM’s marching orders were to get rid of him .

Nah, that's certainly not it

 

[jterrell]

If he was serious about defense winning championships , how can he keep Kyrie? It's just a line he threw at the new owner to get Luca out. No way Nico survives this offseason. Fans are in full revolt demanding his head, and it's only going to get worse the deeper LA goes in the playoffs.

At this point it feels so gross.
Like a young couple were splitting up and arguing over the Xbox.
The girl bought it but the guy played it twice as much.
Instead of giving the girl 100 bucks for it and they call it a compromise he got ragey and threw it out the second-floor window to the concrete.

 

[atlantacowboy]

At this point it feels so gross.
Like a young couple were splitting up and arguing over the Xbox.
The girl bought it but the guy played it twice as much.
Instead of giving the girl 100 bucks for it and they call it a compromise he got ragey and threw it out the second-floor window to the concrete.

lol. But this is a 4 billion dollar toy!

 

[RonWashington]

Nah, that's certainly not it

Then what’s your take on shipping out a player who participated in the finals the yr before ?

 

[RonWashington]

So, the new owners didn't want one of the top 3 players in the NBA in his prime that just lead the team to the NBA Finals? That makes no sense and the lopsided trade makes even less sense. If you don't want to max sign him, then fine go get a bounty on the open market for the guy. Instead, it was done in a clandestine manner all hush hush to his buddy in LA at bargain basement discount. It reeks of either total incompetence or mental illness.

All indications are that this was all Nico and he sold his nonsense "defense wins championships" vision to the newbie owners. Great players win championships in the NBA.

If you think the Gm moved Doncic without ownership knowledge?

 

[Manwiththeplan]

If you think the Gm moved Doncic without ownership knowledge?

there's a zero percent chance that happened

but what I truly want to know is...who's idea was it? Did Nico go to ownership and sell them on the idea of moving him, are was ownership annoyed with Luka and told Nico to find a way to move him.

 

[atlantacowboy]

If you think the Gm moved Doncic without ownership knowledge?

They knew, but they are not NBA people. They rely on their GM for information. This isnt a Jerry Jones type owner. It appears as though this was Nico's idea. He wanted Luca out and they trusted him. As I said above , the truth will be revealed in what happens this off season. If they keep him, then obviously they had a big hand in this and Nico was just their stooge. But, all signs point to that not being the case.