Luka traded to the Lakers

[daoneandonly]

I don't know. I mean he doesn't come across as an arrogant prick like Wade, Lebron, and the Banana boat, or a lowlife like Miles Bridges or Anthony Edwards. But he's also beyond immature and doesn't put in the necessary effort to be the max player he could be but doesn't mind taking max money. That doesn't seem like great human to me

He worked extensively with charity organizations throughout Dallas.

After the mass shooting that killed eight children and a security guard at a Belgrade elementary school, Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic has committed to pay for the funeral services and grief counseling for classmates and staff, a spokesperson for the Luka Doncic Foundation told ESPN on Thursday.

He never had any so called incidents related to normal life like other countless players/celebrities. Has 3 dogs a daughter and a fiancee, same girl he was with since they were small kids basically.

When he was traded to LAL, he worked with his charity to help donate 500k for school and playground rebuild for kids.

He's constantly praised by his old teammates how great of a guy he is. Every Christmas he bought entire team and coaching staff presents (i guess Nico didn't get his times time) and also takes time for fans to sign autographs, specially when they wait for him for hours.

Everyone knows Jokic is a great guy on and off the court and they're best friends. I'm sure Jokic wouldn't hang out with someone who's an **** or simply a bad person.

And that's just very few things to name. For us who get more of his news here in Slovenia, we know exactly who he is. Nico and Dumont say he is a fat alcoholic who brings bad culture to the team... i guess when you repeat the same lie over and over again, it could become truth to some. (Not saying you believe that, but others might).

Yeah, I love this answer. Luka always did things the right way. I've seen nothing to indicate he isn't a great guy so weird to be challenged on it by a Mavs fan who I assume was following Luka like we all were.

Slovenia is a beautiful country, I went there last year to Ljubljana and Bled. Surprised it's not more of a tourist destination.

I challenged it because there's really no excuse for a multi millionaire athlete to constantly be out of shape. He has copious amounts of money to hire cooks trainers etc. It's a lack of discipline, which is a character flaw. Being 25 isn't an excuse. If a 25 year old employee in another sector didn't put in the time and effort to do his job, he'd be reprimanded

[Bob8]

He worked extensively with charity organizations throughout Dallas.

After the mass shooting that killed eight children and a security guard at a Belgrade elementary school, Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic has committed to pay for the funeral services and grief counseling for classmates and staff, a spokesperson for the Luka Doncic Foundation told ESPN on Thursday.

He never had any so called incidents related to normal life like other countless players/celebrities. Has 3 dogs a daughter and a fiancee, same girl he was with since they were small kids basically.

When he was traded to LAL, he worked with his charity to help donate 500k for school and playground rebuild for kids.

He's constantly praised by his old teammates how great of a guy he is. Every Christmas he bought entire team and coaching staff presents (i guess Nico didn't get his times time) and also takes time for fans to sign autographs, specially when they wait for him for hours.

Everyone knows Jokic is a great guy on and off the court and they're best friends. I'm sure Jokic wouldn't hang out with someone who's an **** or simply a bad person.

And that's just very few things to name. For us who get more of his news here in Slovenia, we know exactly who he is. Nico and Dumont say he is a fat alcoholic who brings bad culture to the team... i guess when you repeat the same lie over and over again, it could become truth to some. (Not saying you believe that, but others might).

Yeah, I love this answer. Luka always did things the right way. I've seen nothing to indicate he isn't a great guy so weird to be challenged on it by a Mavs fan who I assume was following Luka like we all were.

Slovenia is a beautiful country, I went there last year to Ljubljana and Bled. Surprised it's not more of a tourist destination.

I challenged it because there's really no excuse for a multi millionaire athlete to constantly be out of shape. He has copious amounts of money to hire cooks trainers etc. It's a lack of discipline, which is a character flaw. Being 25 isn't an excuse. If a 25 year old employee in another sector didn't put in the time and effort to do his job, he'd be reprimanded

You really believe that 25 years old employee in another sector and being the best in the world in his profession is not getting away with almost anything, if he can still get results? Just imagine the best IA engineer in the world been fired, because he doesn't like to come to job early or because he likes to party? Fat, alcoholic Luka was still top3 player in the world . Nico didn't get rid of some young player, who could potentially be good someday, if he worked hard. He got rid of 25 years old top 3 player in Nba.

How people believe that fat, lazy alcoholic can be top 3 player in the world is another story? I guess people now believe anything that they can read somewhere no matter how stupid it is.

[Baz]

He worked extensively with charity organizations throughout Dallas.

After the mass shooting that killed eight children and a security guard at a Belgrade elementary school, Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic has committed to pay for the funeral services and grief counseling for classmates and staff, a spokesperson for the Luka Doncic Foundation told ESPN on Thursday.

He never had any so called incidents related to normal life like other countless players/celebrities. Has 3 dogs a daughter and a fiancee, same girl he was with since they were small kids basically.

When he was traded to LAL, he worked with his charity to help donate 500k for school and playground rebuild for kids.

He's constantly praised by his old teammates how great of a guy he is. Every Christmas he bought entire team and coaching staff presents (i guess Nico didn't get his times time) and also takes time for fans to sign autographs, specially when they wait for him for hours.

Everyone knows Jokic is a great guy on and off the court and they're best friends. I'm sure Jokic wouldn't hang out with someone who's an **** or simply a bad person.

And that's just very few things to name. For us who get more of his news here in Slovenia, we know exactly who he is. Nico and Dumont say he is a fat alcoholic who brings bad culture to the team... i guess when you repeat the same lie over and over again, it could become truth to some. (Not saying you believe that, but others might).

Yeah, I love this answer. Luka always did things the right way. I've seen nothing to indicate he isn't a great guy so weird to be challenged on it by a Mavs fan who I assume was following Luka like we all were.

Slovenia is a beautiful country, I went there last year to Ljubljana and Bled. Surprised it's not more of a tourist destination.

I challenged it because there's really no excuse for a multi millionaire athlete to constantly be out of shape. He has copious amounts of money to hire cooks trainers etc. It's a lack of discipline, which is a character flaw. Being 25 isn't an excuse. If a 25 year old employee in another sector didn't put in the time and effort to do his job, he'd be reprimanded

Comparing an NBA player to an employee of a regular job is such a huge false equivalence but Luka does his job better than 557 other NBA players (going by the stats from last season there's 560 players in the league), maybe 2 or 3 players are better or as good as him. Which means he performs better than 99.5% of all NBA players. Factor that into the regular job logic you've come up with.

Needing him to be skinny is just nitpicking when he does his job excellently. He likely uses his time in the gym putting up thousands of shots. Who are you to tell him how to use his training and eating time when he's consistently one of the best 3 players in the world? You expect him to be the perfect version of himself at 25, not really fair expectations. I don't remember anyone telling Dirk to hit the weight room. He did alright. And he was bad defensively. We didn't trade him for not being jacked and being bad at defense, did we?

[daoneandonly]

Yeah, I love this answer. Luka always did things the right way. I've seen nothing to indicate he isn't a great guy so weird to be challenged on it by a Mavs fan who I assume was following Luka like we all were.

Slovenia is a beautiful country, I went there last year to Ljubljana and Bled. Surprised it's not more of a tourist destination.

I challenged it because there's really no excuse for a multi millionaire athlete to constantly be out of shape. He has copious amounts of money to hire cooks trainers etc. It's a lack of discipline, which is a character flaw. Being 25 isn't an excuse. If a 25 year old employee in another sector didn't put in the time and effort to do his job, he'd be reprimanded

Comparing an NBA player to an employee of a regular job is such a huge false equivalence but Luka does his job better than 557 other NBA players (going by the stats from last season there's 560 players in the league), maybe 2 or 3 players are better or as good as him. Which means he performs better than 99.5% of all NBA players. Factor that into the regular job logic you've come up with.

Needing him to be skinny is just nitpicking when he does his job excellently. He likely uses his time in the gym putting up thousands of shots. Who are you to tell him how to use his training and eating time when he's consistently one of the best 3 players in the world? You expect him to be the perfect version of himself at 25, not really fair expectations. I don't remember anyone telling Dirk to hit the weight room. He did alright. And he was bad defensively. We didn't trade him for not being jacked and being bad at defense, did we?

I'm a fan who supported the team way before he even got there. Many of injuries and time missed were a direct result of his conditioning. Dirk was a known gym rat who was always on the practice court or fitness room, what are you talking about?

[Baz]

I challenged it because there's really no excuse for a multi millionaire athlete to constantly be out of shape. He has copious amounts of money to hire cooks trainers etc. It's a lack of discipline, which is a character flaw. Being 25 isn't an excuse. If a 25 year old employee in another sector didn't put in the time and effort to do his job, he'd be reprimanded

Comparing an NBA player to an employee of a regular job is such a huge false equivalence but Luka does his job better than 557 other NBA players (going by the stats from last season there's 560 players in the league), maybe 2 or 3 players are better or as good as him. Which means he performs better than 99.5% of all NBA players. Factor that into the regular job logic you've come up with.

Needing him to be skinny is just nitpicking when he does his job excellently. He likely uses his time in the gym putting up thousands of shots. Who are you to tell him how to use his training and eating time when he's consistently one of the best 3 players in the world? You expect him to be the perfect version of himself at 25, not really fair expectations. I don't remember anyone telling Dirk to hit the weight room. He did alright. And he was bad defensively. We didn't trade him for not being jacked and being bad at defense, did we?

I'm a fan who supported the team way before he even got there. Many of injuries and time missed were a direct result of his conditioning. Dirk was a known gym rat who was always on the practice court or fitness room, what are you talking about?

Now you're nitpicking at what I've said and avoiding the argument I made

[41Dirk41]

A lot of guys here blamed Luka for his conditioning but no one would have ever thought of trade him... And i think it was the same in the organization.

Harrison and Dumont didn't just trade him, they dumped him.

It's insane what happened and Silver's voice in his statements revealed and confirmed that there are "strange stuffs" in this trade.

[Mavrelous]

After the hit pieces, now come Nico glorifting piece
We really don't hate corporate journalist enough
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6137644/2025/02/17/luka-doncic-trade-lakers-mavericks-nico-harrison/

[Bob8]

After the hit pieces, now come Nico glorifting piece
We really don't hate corporate journalist enough
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6137644/2025/02/17/luka-doncic-trade-lakers-mavericks-nico-harrison/

Funny enough everything he does now is just persuading Luka to be as good as possible in the future and with that he's just digging his grave deeper.

In short term he hit Luka, who looks very shaken at the moment. But in long term it's just a push to make a monster out of Luka.

Journalist should have asked himself, why this charismatic GM couldn't find another way to make top3 player better without trading him. When you have a talent at your disposal you should maximise his potential not throwing him in the garbage.

I'm pretty sure getting good FA would be near impossible in the near future. Maybe trading everything for KD is really the way to go and then just switch off the lights in few years time.

All this articles just show how insecure Nico is, Luka is, rightly so, not saying anything, Nico&co. just can't let it go, making everything worse and personal.

[41Dirk41]

After the hit pieces, now come Nico glorifting piece
We really don't hate corporate journalist enough
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6137644/2025/02/17/luka-doncic-trade-lakers-mavericks-nico-harrison/

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[Archx]

Dallas Executive Says Organization was Terrified of Luka Doncic

Voulgaris told a story about interacting with Dončić during his rookie season. Dončić filled a thermos with lemonade and sweet tea. “I know liquid calories are death,” Voulgaris told then-owner Cuban. Voulgaris, according to his recounting, was told to stay in his lane.



Mavs are trying way too hard right now. Terrified of a lemonade and sweet tea. Yep, better trade that guy!!! Unacceptable.

[Bob8]

Dallas Executive Says Organization was Terrified of Luka Doncic

Voulgaris told a story about interacting with Dončić during his rookie season. Dončić filled a thermos with lemonade and sweet tea. “I know liquid calories are death,” Voulgaris told then-owner Cuban. Voulgaris, according to his recounting, was told to stay in his lane.



Mavs are trying way too hard right now. Terrified of a lemonade and sweet tea. Yep, better trade that guy!!! Unacceptable.

Yes, this's getting ridiculous.

Liquid calories are death? What they think every sportsman is drinking/eating during 2h sports activities? Pasta?

Liquid calories are death, if you've watching TV and sitting on the couch drinking them.

[daoneandonly]

Dallas Executive Says Organization was Terrified of Luka Doncic

Voulgaris told a story about interacting with Dončić during his rookie season. Dončić filled a thermos with lemonade and sweet tea. “I know liquid calories are death,” Voulgaris told then-owner Cuban. Voulgaris, according to his recounting, was told to stay in his lane.



Mavs are trying way too hard right now. Terrified of a lemonade and sweet tea. Yep, better trade that guy!!! Unacceptable.

No one can or will defend this FO with any rational arguments. The return they got back was dreadful, and the complete unprofessionalism in how they've handled everything has been disgusting to witness.

As I said, I was one of the few that was on board with trading him because I, too, felt he wasn't serious, committed, or mature enough to be a true leader and pay 60 mils a year too. But get a legitimate return back, Nico, you moron, multiple picks, and a young star with all NBA potential.

[Mavrelous]

Dallas Executive Says Organization was Terrified of Luka Doncic

Voulgaris told a story about interacting with Dončić during his rookie season. Dončić filled a thermos with lemonade and sweet tea. “I know liquid calories are death,” Voulgaris told then-owner Cuban. Voulgaris, according to his recounting, was told to stay in his lane.



Mavs are trying way too hard right now. Terrified of a lemonade and sweet tea. Yep, better trade that guy!!! Unacceptable.

I listened to snippets from that interview, including this quote, it wasn't a shot at Luka, but at the Mavericks staff at how they handled his growth, which is correct, a person with Luka's weight fluctuations should not be drinking sweet drinks.

[arkuo]

I wouldnt put too much attention on the pieces coming out left and right. Imagine the trade was kept secret up until the minute it was signed. And all of a sudden an anonymous executive or source feeds information to the media left and right and the deal is done. They're just doing it for clicks and engagement to drive readers to whatever site they have without actually putting a real name of the source out there.

All this stuff is created to rile you guys up. And then you engage and go back and fourth with other people. And it comes back as views and eyeballs and click throughs.

[Bob8]

Dallas Executive Says Organization was Terrified of Luka Doncic

Voulgaris told a story about interacting with Dončić during his rookie season. Dončić filled a thermos with lemonade and sweet tea. “I know liquid calories are death,” Voulgaris told then-owner Cuban. Voulgaris, according to his recounting, was told to stay in his lane.



Mavs are trying way too hard right now. Terrified of a lemonade and sweet tea. Yep, better trade that guy!!! Unacceptable.

I listened to snippets from that interview, including this quote, it wasn't a shot at Luka, but at the Mavericks staff at how they handled his growth, which is correct, a person with Luka's weight fluctuations should not be drinking sweet drinks.

If you're training for 2 hours you for sure are drinking something with sugar. Every isotonic drink are full of sugar. No athlete is getting fat, because he's drinking too much sugar during exercise.

[Mavrelous]

Dallas Executive Says Organization was Terrified of Luka Doncic

Voulgaris told a story about interacting with Dončić during his rookie season. Dončić filled a thermos with lemonade and sweet tea. “I know liquid calories are death,” Voulgaris told then-owner Cuban. Voulgaris, according to his recounting, was told to stay in his lane.



Mavs are trying way too hard right now. Terrified of a lemonade and sweet tea. Yep, better trade that guy!!! Unacceptable.

I listened to snippets from that interview, including this quote, it wasn't a shot at Luka, but at the Mavericks staff at how they handled his growth, which is correct, a person with Luka's weight fluctuations should not be drinking sweet drinks.

If you're training for 2 hours you for sure are drinking something with sugar. Every isotonic drinks are full of sugar. No athlete is getting fat, because he's drinking too much sugar during exercise.

No you aren't, and excessive sugar intake is main contributor to fat gain, and this is exactly what Volgaris is criticizing.

[Archx]

Dallas Executive Says Organization was Terrified of Luka Doncic

Voulgaris told a story about interacting with Dončić during his rookie season. Dončić filled a thermos with lemonade and sweet tea. “I know liquid calories are death,” Voulgaris told then-owner Cuban. Voulgaris, according to his recounting, was told to stay in his lane.



Mavs are trying way too hard right now. Terrified of a lemonade and sweet tea. Yep, better trade that guy!!! Unacceptable.

I listened to snippets from that interview, including this quote, it wasn't a shot at Luka, but at the Mavericks staff at how they handled his growth, which is correct, a person with Luka's weight fluctuations should not be drinking sweet drinks.

They're really, really, reaaaallly nitpicking here. In my time playing basketball i was in the club with Sasha Vujacic, Beno Udrih, etc.. saw countless other PRO players, played with them, trained with them, coached by SLO national coach... I promise you, complaining about drinking sweet tea, is like telling a kid don't eat piece of candy because you might get fat when you're 30yo. When we were doing cardio runs of 5 km per lap, we had proper drinks with sugar to keep our energy high. It's not the same if a normal person intakes extra calories to a seasoned pro. You're also completely eliminating and forgetting the fact that these guys run/jump for almost 40 mins a night and in days in between. I have never seen or heard anything like this. I can't even begin to explain it to you how idiotic these complains are. He's also 25yo, when you're over 30yo body starts to respond a bit differently and you have to pay more attention to what you eat and drink. Kobe for example talked about this very well when he got older.

I would respect Nico way more if he simply said, we don't trust his injuries or health and that's it. Don't talk about some dumbass culture, don't try to paint him like he's the worst teammate ever because you have actual teammates that can easily speak out (and they did), don't try to sell him like he's an alcoholic, etc... It's insane.


Sure Luka could have more toned muscles, more in shape, i say this all the time as well. But he had an injury since last playoffs that didn't properly heal, he couldn't work out as he did previous season, so he wanted some time to properly heal this time. And if you look at his dad, a lot about his body is about genetics as well. I guess we'll only see the real Luka after this season is over. There is no time to properly practice now anyway, it's basically just trying to survive through the year.

[Bob8]

I listened to snippets from that interview, including this quote, it wasn't a shot at Luka, but at the Mavericks staff at how they handled his growth, which is correct, a person with Luka's weight fluctuations should not be drinking sweet drinks.

If you're training for 2 hours you for sure are drinking something with sugar. Every isotonic drinks are full of sugar. No athlete is getting fat, because he's drinking too much sugar during exercise.

No you aren't, and excessive sugar intake is main contributor to fat gain, and this is exactly what Volgaris is criticizing.

Sure you're, you need energy for serious exercise. What do you think, tennis players are drinking during the match? Water? When you're doing serious exercise in any kind of sport, fuelling is the most important component. Nobody is running on water.

[Mavrelous]

Dallas Executive Says Organization was Terrified of Luka Doncic

Voulgaris told a story about interacting with Dončić during his rookie season. Dončić filled a thermos with lemonade and sweet tea. “I know liquid calories are death,” Voulgaris told then-owner Cuban. Voulgaris, according to his recounting, was told to stay in his lane.



Mavs are trying way too hard right now. Terrified of a lemonade and sweet tea. Yep, better trade that guy!!! Unacceptable.

I listened to snippets from that interview, including this quote, it wasn't a shot at Luka, but at the Mavericks staff at how they handled his growth, which is correct, a person with Luka's weight fluctuations should not be drinking sweet drinks.

They're really, really, reaaaallly nitpicking here. In my time playing basketball i was in the club with Sasha Vujacic, Beno Udrih, etc.. saw countless other PRO players, played with them, trained with them, coached by SLO national coach... I promise you, complaining about drinking sweet tea, is like telling a kid don't eat piece of candy because you might get fat when you're 30yo. Completely eliminating and forgetting the fact that these guys run/jump for almost 40 mins a night and in days in between. I have never seen or heard anything like this. I can't even begin to explain it to you how idiotic these complains are. He's also 25yo, when you're over 30yo body starts to respond a bit differently and you have to pay more attention to what you eat and drink. Kobe for example talked about this very well when he got older.

I would respect Nico way more if he simply said, we don't trust his injuries or health and that's it. Don't talk about some dumbass culture, don't try to paint him like he's the worst teammate ever because you have actual teammates that can easily speak out (and they did), don't try to sell him like he's an alcoholic, etc... It's insane.


Sure Luka could have more toned muscles, more in shape, i say this all the time as well. But he had an injury since last playoffs that didn't properly heal, he couldn't work out as he did previous season, so he wanted some time to properly heal this time. And if you look at his dad, a lot about his body is about genetics as well. I guess we'll only see the real Luka after this season is over. There is no time to properly practice now anyway, it's basically just trying to survive through the year.

I have same criticism for their PR as you do, but his isn't it.
Volgaris was criticizing the Mavs here not Luka, he was also against the trade and against what transpired and how the team operated.
What fits for scrawny Beno Udrih or Kyrie Irving isn't the same for Luka, when you are overweight you don't need to be energized constantly, the body has enough glycogen storage to fuel multiple hours of training, back when Keto was all the rage, people ran full marathons sugar depleted, these are the exact bad habbits that training staff should instruct someone who's battling to maintain weight.

[Bob8]

I listened to snippets from that interview, including this quote, it wasn't a shot at Luka, but at the Mavericks staff at how they handled his growth, which is correct, a person with Luka's weight fluctuations should not be drinking sweet drinks.

They're really, really, reaaaallly nitpicking here. In my time playing basketball i was in the club with Sasha Vujacic, Beno Udrih, etc.. saw countless other PRO players, played with them, trained with them, coached by SLO national coach... I promise you, complaining about drinking sweet tea, is like telling a kid don't eat piece of candy because you might get fat when you're 30yo. Completely eliminating and forgetting the fact that these guys run/jump for almost 40 mins a night and in days in between. I have never seen or heard anything like this. I can't even begin to explain it to you how idiotic these complains are. He's also 25yo, when you're over 30yo body starts to respond a bit differently and you have to pay more attention to what you eat and drink. Kobe for example talked about this very well when he got older.

I would respect Nico way more if he simply said, we don't trust his injuries or health and that's it. Don't talk about some dumbass culture, don't try to paint him like he's the worst teammate ever because you have actual teammates that can easily speak out (and they did), don't try to sell him like he's an alcoholic, etc... It's insane.


Sure Luka could have more toned muscles, more in shape, i say this all the time as well. But he had an injury since last playoffs that didn't properly heal, he couldn't work out as he did previous season, so he wanted some time to properly heal this time. And if you look at his dad, a lot about his body is about genetics as well. I guess we'll only see the real Luka after this season is over. There is no time to properly practice now anyway, it's basically just trying to survive through the year.

I have same criticism for their PR as you do, but his isn't it.
Volgaris was criticizing the Mavs here not Luka, he was also against the trade and against what transpired and how the team operated.
What fits for scrawny Beno Udrih or Kyrie Irving isn't the same for Luka, when you are overweight you don't need to be energized constantly, the body has enough glycogen storage to fuel multiple hours of training, back when Keto was all the rage, people ran full marathons sugar depleted, these are the exact bad habbits that training staff should instruct someone who's battling to maintain weight.

This's such a bull. Glycogen storage theoretically lasts for 90 minutes, but not for high activity exercise, end for sure not if you're 250. 40 minutes maybe.

People did stupid things before, now fuelling is one of the most important things in sports. No serious sportsman is doing anything being only on water. Not even amateurs.

Luka is using around 1.000 kcal per hour when having exercise. I'm sure he's not fat because drinking too much sugar during exercise.