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Well, that is a bombshell. Did not see that coming.
Wow
I see the late crew had it covered. At least we have something to talk about other than a bad loss.
https://x.com/shamscharania/status/1885919297832169918?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
WHAT
I’m sorry CDiggy. Lakers win and get Luka. Maybe take a day or 2 off work…
Cuban just Dolaned the Mavs!! It’d be great to see, but only if the other team was not named Lakers or Celtics!
Well, at least no one will be talking about our L. 😛
I understand that Cuban does not have control over the Mavs anymore. And maybe that was the issue, that Luka was Cuban’s boy?
People will be talking about the Max Christie deal for years I fear
Vecenie is saying that his FO contacts didn’t know this was coming. Dallas, in honor of the 6th anniversary of the KP trade, moved Luka without talking to anyone else. I fully expect a sexual harassment suit against Luka to be announced and then never mentioned again.
Miriam Adelson owns the Mavs, but I believe Cuban retained the right to run the team after its sale. If he was a trustee, this would be a blatant breach of fiduciary duty. Cannot wait for Silver’s spin on how the league allowed this.
I guess Rob Pelinka leaps frogs Leon and maybe even the boy wonder in POBO rankings.
Yeah Cuban is probably sick right now. Miriam Adelson owns the Mavs, but I think her son in law is the one involved
When shams has to do two follow ups to the trade announcement to tell people it’s real it’s probably not a good sign that you made a smart trade
this would be a lot more fun if it didn’t happen in the lisfranc waiting room. maybe not the most pressing question, but i am dying to know how the mavericks avoided getting the lakers 31 first in this deal.
Good morning, fellow Knickerbloggers!!!
Re OG: This is simple. Meet your new starting power forward, Precious Achiuwa! (He really *did* have an outstanding game last night.)
What, me worry? :-S
Theories:
(1) Dallas has a proprietary algorithm that declares AD the best player in the league and this guarantees them a championship
(2) Luka Doncic is secretly time-traveling baby Hitler and this prevents WWII
(3) Nico Harrison has been stuck in a time loop and it did not expect it to end immediately after this trade
(4) Dallas really likes Kameron Mercer, projected 2029 first round pick. I mean really likes, because the chances a Luka led team is the #1 overall pick seem not great and they want literally any boost to get the middle schooler.
This is all about ratings. Ratings are down and the NBA is a soap opera. Putting Luka on the most famous team in the NBA equals views. The NBA has not found it’s current post LeBron and Curry young star that will get them the viewership they need. The Mavs were used as a sacrifice to please Adam Silver. The fact that the Mavs didn’t open it up and field more offers makes it more obvious. Silver said Lakers or Bust.
Miriam Adelson is worth 33 Billion so the noise that she didn’t wait to play Lukas supermax is non sense. The NBA reporters and Nico have to lie about the trade to make it look less obvious.
I love the Dallas’ spin–defense wins championships (they won with Dirk) and Luka’s conditioning (and you get AD?). What’s next–Victor for Cam Reddish?
OK; we get it. 🙂
Also lol at the Mavs quietly calling the Lakers about Luka like he is a bad contract and nobody would want him.. nothing weird going on here
I might listen to Bill Simmons this week.
Luka in LA makes sense. Not sure about the rest of the deal though.
everyone knows that luka is pretty annoying as demigods go. but nobody really gives a fuck about annoying if it doesn’t get in the way of being a demigod. that’s a key perk.
the mavs have a magnifying glass. magnifying glasses can be distorting if it makes the annoying part look big and the demigod part look small. you see the whining, the negative vo2max, the recidivist calf, but you see it in technicolor and then some. probably it blinds you to the simple truth and makes you do dumb shit. but also maybe sometimes it is actually scary enough up close that it’s less crazy than it seems to fade the table. still would have expected them to get more.
“Yeah, Babe Ruth? Big time conditioning issues. Real headache in the clubhouse. Addition by subtraction, I say. The 1920 Red Sox will be better without the fatso.”
Does this mean that Daniel Gafford, P. J. Washington, or Derck Lively now become available?
Lakers sure could use a Jericho Sims right about now
Lively is injured
It’s just so bizarre the Mavs made the Finals last year and got some foolish owners to blow it up. The Mavs matched up well against OKC
https://x.com/adryanashton/status/1885944969808011574
I’m probably in the minority, but I think the trade wasn’t good for either team, at least in the short term. For the long term it could be good for the Lakers. Luka has a long history of not fitting well with other stars. It will be surprising if he suddenly fits well with LeBron. AD fit well with LeBron but didn’t want to play center even though it’s his best position. Now he can play the four and the Mavs are a better fitting team. But they went down in talent level long term.
It make a wee bit more sense when you look at the current top-10 in BPM, PER, and WS/48 and realize Davis might the best player available. I’m assuming Giannis, SGA, Jokic, Tatum, Wemby are not. And maybe Dallas wouldn’t be satisfied with Franz Wagner or Sabonis.
Kyrie, Christie/Klay, PJ Washington, AD, and Gafford is a very nice core too.
Still, WOW.
How does Mikal fetch 5 first round picks and Luka one, even allowing for the contracts each will fetch?
“Lively is injured”
So are Anthony Davis and Luka Doncic.
Davis is worth a couple 1st round picks by himself, but yeah this trade is a mess
This is not an arms-length transaction. To allow a deal like this to stand would be an admission that every other team in the NBA is operating at a competitive disadvantage. Why even have a salary cap and ridiculous apron rules if the Lakers can circumvent the marketplace.
WTF did I wake to to?! Anthony Davis is a great player but he’s about to turn 32 and he isn’t Doncic! Is this the worst trade of All NBA players in NBA history?
My goodness this is a disastrous trade for the Mavs. The whole point is that a top 5 player is the most scarce asset in the game. Jesus.
That KD reaction is amazing. Long term meme worthy. Just wish the camera angle was slightly better.
I also think LeBron and Luka aren’t a great pair but who cares. Maybe LeBron can finish his career in NY. He clearly loves it here.
And yeah, Mikal was overpriced, although not sure how it’s relevant. I think the issue likely was that the Lakers have no picks to trade anymore, right?
So let me get the timeline straight- last season the Mavs steamroll the Clips, Thunder and Wolves on their way to the NBA Finals, acquire Klay Thompson in the offseason and halfway through this season decide it’s just not working.
I mean, wtf???
Seems like the Lakers have 1st round picks in 2026, 27, 29[traded to Dallas], 30, 31
https://fanspo.com/nba/teams/los-angeles-lakers/14/draft-picks
“And yeah, Mikal was overpriced, although not sure how it’s relevant. I think the issue likely was that the Lakers have no picks to trade anymore, right?”
But that’s the point. There are likely at least a dozen teams that would happily include multiple picks in a trade for Luka.
They could have traded the ‘31 pick, but the others are already swapped and are constrained by the Stephen rule.
It’s weird bc as great as this trade is for LA it’s really hard to see them building around Luka with their depleted assets and lack of cap space. Is a LeAuction coming up?
No! The Lakers do have additional picks they can trade. Plus, how did Dallas not even get Reaves back?
*Probably* wouldn’t have mattered, but this is Exhibit A for why you don’t spend all your powder for the Mikals of the world.
Silver needed LA to keep the ’31 pick so he can “convince” small market SA that they should accept it in exchange for Wemby.
The squinting would be easier if AD wasn’t himself always injured.
Just so we’re clear here:
1. There was no open bidding for Doncic. Dallas reached out to LA and no one else. So we couldn’t have beaten the LA offer even if we hadn’t traded for Bridges.
2. You’re never right about anything.
I believe the Mavs when they say that they wanted defense to win a championship. They got Christie instead of a worse defender, for example Reeves, and I think this year they may actually be better and a more coherent team. And Christie is twenty two and we just saw him play a sígnificant part in beating the Knicks. Kyrie can do more than he was doing. It’s a gamble on their part, but it could work for them.
As for Luka’s value in first round picks, AD is probably worth three by himself and Christie is worth one and they received the Lakers pick, so that is the equivalent of five. Not a killing but not nothing. In the past couple of years they have made some trades that weren’t rated well by pundits but worked out well for them. I don’t think they did well in the return, but I think the trade is probably not a disaster for them.
LeBron may be 40 something but he’s also exactly the kind of two-way big you want next to KAT, is he not?
OG and Mitch for LeBron and Jaxson Hayes seems like it would work with a little finagling if that is something the Lakers would be interested in.
This is exactly the kind of trade David Stern would have voided, but Silver is a puppet and TV ratings are dwindling, so the fucking Lakers need help.
Back to the Knicks,
I’m holding my breath about OG’s diagnosis & prognosis, he’s so important for our team, meanwhile Brunson laid a brutal egg on national TV and KAT’s hand is a real concern.
We shouldn’t have wasted a great Josh’s game, it’s a shame.
Anyway for teams like us the regular season is meaningless, only health matters, let’s hope OG will heal quickly (finger crossed emoji).
LeBron doesn’t really play defense anymore
I am in no way defending this trade from Dallas’ POV. It’s a fiasco. But the Mikal/5 picks thing is a false equivalency to any other big NBA trade, because we essentially only traded picks for him. Everyone else in the deal was essentially matching salary. That’s why the number of picks was high.
But if you’re the Mavericks, how in the world do you not announce to the league that Luka is available? Even if you insist on doing it over the course of a few hours? Whatever negative blowback you had to deal with over the stretch where everyone knew you were shopping him would be far outweighed by getting a better return package than… this.
there is reporting they called one other team and offered a star swap two weeks ago but were rejected. dying to know who that was. giannis? ant?
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