2024-25 Season Discussion and Speculation Part III

[mkot]

Please stop sharing that Flex guy's tweet

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Every single report so far says Luka never asked out, didn’t want out and that he was shocked by this.

Stop the f****ing idiotic crap of posting some dumbass trying to be a reporter on twitter. Seriously, if any of you actually follow that guy on twitter and post his stuff here, that actually speaks very poorly about you.

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Mavs trying to save face by calling Luka fat and a defensive liability after having him find out about the trade by Shams is such bush league man. Kicking the man on his way out. That too by robbing him of the super max he was gonna get in the summer plus no more no-state income taxes for him either.

Luka did so damn much for that team and single handedly carried them to the finals and made them relevant. And they did him like that.

He was fat and not playing defense while he took em to the finals too lol. It’s way easier to find players that play defense than it is to find an offensive talent like Luka Doncic. They actually finally put together a great 3 and D team around him too and even with a mid season trade that took em to the Finals. Didn’t even give them one full season to see how it would play out again.

Kyrie and Klay signed with the Mavs because of Luka alone. I’m curious to see how that Mavs locker room is gonna be now. Even Dirk, Mr Maverick and their legend is freaking stunned.

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If there was a way for the Suns to bring Luka in, Ishbia could’ve righted all his wrongs and wayyyy tf more.

[sunsbg]

If there was a way for the Suns to bring Luka in, Ishbia could’ve righted all his wrongs and wayyyy tf more.

No chance since our FO has fetish for 35 year olds and getting rid of valuable assets to be used in such trade is their expertise.

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How the hell did the Mavs not even get Reaves from the Lakers?

Reaves could’ve made up for at least a small portion of the playmaking they lost in Luka.

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Damn Cuban really sold the mavs to the devil. He low key screwed the franchise over. Luka was like everything to the Mavs, how could any GM decide to make this move and think it’s beneficial in the long run

Funny thing is most people a couple years ago wanted Cuban to sell the team

^some of the quotes from Mavs fans on reddit.

A new owner buys an NBA team after fans wanted the previous owner to sell the team then the new owner makes a dumbass trade soon after trading away a fan favorite for an injury prone player in his 30s? Hmm now where have I heard of that before…

Obviously Mikal isn’t Luka but also at least the Mavs still have control of all their picks and gained one (measly) pick but it’s still a bit of deja vu for sure.

I wonder if Ishbia and the Adelson family have the same group of friends who pushed Ishbia to overrule James Jones and trade for KD during/after a night out drinking.

[mkot]

Mavs trying to save face by calling Luka fat and a defensive liability after having him find out about the trade by Shams is such bush league man. Kicking the man on his way out. That too by robbing him of the super max he was gonna get in the summer plus no more no-state income taxes for him either.

Luka did so damn much for that team and single handedly carried them to the finals and made them relevant. And they did him like that.

He was fat and not playing defense while he took em to the finals too lol. It’s way easier to find players that play defense than it is to find an offensive talent like Luka Doncic. They actually finally put together a great 3 and D team around him too and even with a mid season trade that took em to the Finals. Didn’t even give them one full season to see how it would play out again.

Kyrie and Klay signed with the Mavs because of Luka alone. I’m curious to see how that Mavs locker room is gonna be now. Even Dirk, Mr Maverick and their legend is freaking stunned.

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And why secretly only deal with a disgusting franchise that always have to rob other teams? What a corrupt deal.

And how is trading Luka is a win now move? He just carried that team to the Finals!

Why do teams obligate to help the Lakers stay relevant? The Gasol trade, AD trade, now this. So lame.

Mavs fans should be disgusted

[sunsbg]

Still Luka should get blame for not staying in shape right. I was always sceptical about him reaching his ceiling because of this, especially for 2nd half of his career. Looks like an organization that knows him best felt the same way. Maybe this makes people feel a little bit better about passing on him. That said I'd still take him instead of any of our "Big 3" including all the draft capital lost in KD and Beal trades knowing our current state.

[mkot]

Still Luka should get blame for not staying in shape right. I was always sceptical about him reaching his ceiling because of this, especially for 2nd half of his career. Looks like an organization that knows him best felt the same way. Maybe this makes people feel a little bit better about passing on him. That said I'd still take him instead of any of our "Big 3" including all the draft capital lost in KD and Beal trades knowing our current state.

Luka is a generational talent, team should be patiently working with him on his health and conditioning. Luka is a competitor I don't see how they can't push him to work on his conditioning. What the hell? You don't trade your franchise player, the player you built your entire roster around that just went to the Finals because there's "concerns" on his conditioning

[sunsbg]

Still Luka should get blame for not staying in shape right. I was always sceptical about him reaching his ceiling because of this, especially for 2nd half of his career. Looks like an organization that knows him best felt the same way. Maybe this makes people feel a little bit better about passing on him. That said I'd still take him instead of any of our "Big 3" including all the draft capital lost in KD and Beal trades knowing our current state.

Luka is a generational talent, team should be patiently working with him on his health and conditioning. Luka is a competitor I don't see how they can't push him to work on his conditioning. What the hell? You don't trade your franchise player, the player you built your entire roster around that just went to the Finals because there's "concerns" on his conditioning

Well, there must be something behind the scenes. Luka is a hot head. Now, the trade was bad, but it seems obvious Mavs didn't have trust in him leading them to glory. Or NBA is just rigged.

[garrick]

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The man lost a LOT I mean A LOT of money. I wonder there's something we don't know about Luka's health or his approach to his conditioning. Resigning a generational talent entering his prime is a no-branier. WTF are they thinking?

Mavs trading Luka because he is fat before the Pels trading Zion is insane.

Luka's attitude must have been terrible if the Mavs were willing to take the L and trade him for street clothes AD and a single 1st round pick. Weird weird trade but maybe more news comes out later about why Cuban did this trade, certainly feels if the Mavs had publicly put Luka's name out there in trade deals they could have gotten much better offers.

[sunsbg]

Luka's attitude must have been terrible if the Mavs were willing to take the L and trade him for street clothes AD and a single 1st round pick. Weird weird trade but maybe more news comes out later about why Cuban did this trade, certainly feels if the Mavs had publicly put Luka's name out there in trade deals they could have gotten much better offers.

Something may come out later indeed, but it's not Cuban making decisions for Mavs anymore. They have a new ownership that made our ownership not look as bad. We are not the worst now.

[Mr Puddles]

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The man lost a LOT I mean A LOT of money. I wonder there's something we don't know about Luka's health or his approach to his conditioning. Resigning a generational talent entering his prime is a no-branier. WTF are they thinking?

Mavs trading Luka because he is fat before the Pels trading Zion is insane.

Luka's attitude must have been terrible if the Mavs were willing to take the L and trade him for street clothes AD and a single 1st round pick. Weird weird trade but maybe more news comes out later about why Cuban did this trade, certainly feels if the Mavs had publicly put Luka's name out there in trade deals they could have gotten much better offers.

Honestly, the Slovenia night debacle alone would likely have really pissed off Luka. You're organizing a night for your fellow countrymen, who turn out in droves, and the organization decided to bench you and instead treat them to the basketball wizardry of Theo Pinson. It was kind of a slap in the face of Slovenian fans, and I wouldn't be surprised if that, and the Mavs botching re-signing Brunson, is where Luka's friction with the organization may have started.

[Calvin Klein]

It seems so easy to con people these days. Stop giving exposure to this Fraud from Jersey guy. He is obviously a complete builshitter

[Calvin Klein]

Now we're gonna have to watch Luka humiliate us in a **** Lakers jersey.

[MrMiyagi]

Watch LA trade LeBron for like Zion or some ****.

[Saberestar]

Adelson ( Luka) and the Wolves owner ( Towns) traded their stars who were drafted for their own teams and stayed loyal to the franchise JUST TO SAVE MONEY primary probably can give you another point of view when analyzing what Ishbia is doing for the Suns.

[Saberestar]

Book is funny!

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[BobbieL]

Ishbia has to win out on that shock factor. Getting Butler isn't enough now.


On the flip side of the things, he would take a lot less flack if he decided to rebuild right now. Luka to Lakers would trump anything the Suns do, so trading Booker, Beal, KD right now wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

Exactly! Now is the time to blow it up

Especially if SA gets Fox