BREAKING: Shams: Mavs Trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, & Markieff Morris to the Lakers for Anthony Davis + FRP

[ITYSL]

Holy ****! Woke up to see this news and was like nah, that can't be real. What the ****!

It's a basketball and a money move. The Mavs were tired of Luka being lazy and out of shape all the time, and didn't want to pay him the supermax to see if he'd ever get his conditioning right. The irony is that being traded might motivate Luka to do exactly that.

Great coup for the Lakers, though they went from a bad to worse defense. I'm not really sure what it means for their chances this season, but clearly they are huge winners in this trade.

Kidd better roll out a three-bigs lineup sometime this season, just for kicks.

I'm begging the basketball gods for a playoff series between these two teams this year.

[Mr.Raptorsingh]

As far as Dallas ownership goes, Miriam Adelson is worth around $30B and supposedly just dropped $100M in the 2024 presidential campaign.

That doesn't mean she doesn't have cash issues, but I think her financial position is a lot better than, say, the Buss family's.

She and Jeannie must be BFFs

[Decipher]

Las Vegas Sands Corp probably viewed Luka's upcoming contract extension as a potential risk. In business, there's this thing called risk mitigation. It's the practice of reducing the impact of potential risks by developing a plan to manage, eliminate, or limit setbacks as much as possible.

Luka was up for a $340 million contract extension this summer. If the Mavs signed Luka to that extension, they would have to put $340 million in an escrow account because NBA contracts are guaranteed.

This trade eliminates the need to pay Luka, avoids the NBA luxury tax, and gives the Mavs ownership a share of the luxury tax revenue. The NBA is a capital-intensive business, so if the Mavs owners are facing potential financial problems with their other businesses, this trade makes a lot of sense.

Make no sense at all, even if it is luxury tax, and tariffs coming back from Canada, Mexico, China etc..than you trade for 2young prospects and 7 FRP, and couple of swaps and seconds..you set uo your franchise for years to come.

This way you MAYBE Have ONE shot at title at best. You ruined your any future trade credentials..when you will look to trade AD , Irwing and whoever else for years to come. What do you think Dallas will be offered for any of these players? hahaha..

The franchise is done in Dallas and will be moved to Vegas in 2-3 years tops. As soon as revenue starts to drop and ot will start immediately..you think fans will buy AD jerseys? Haha..

They destroyed Mavs in Dallas..and it has to be deliberate..to move them to Vegas,,thats the only explanation behind all of this

I'm not defending the trade. I'm just saying the trade had more to do with business than basketball.

Mavs owner is a Trump supporter who was left billions by her husband

Probably took basketball advice from the Trumpster and decided to deport Luka to California

[firedavidkahn]

Las Vegas Sands Corp probably viewed Luka's upcoming contract extension as a potential risk. In business, there's this thing called risk mitigation. It's the practice of reducing the impact of potential risks by developing a plan to manage, eliminate, or limit setbacks as much as possible.

Luka was up for a $340 million contract extension this summer. If the Mavs signed Luka to that extension, they would have to put $340 million in an escrow account because NBA contracts are guaranteed.

This trade eliminates the need to pay Luka, avoids the NBA luxury tax, and gives the Mavs ownership a share of the luxury tax revenue. The NBA is a capital-intensive business, so if the Mavs owners are facing potential financial problems with their other businesses, this trade makes a lot of sense.

Make no sense at all, even if it is luxury tax, and tariffs coming back from Canada, Mexico, China etc..than you trade for 2young prospects and 7 FRP, and couple of swaps and seconds..you set uo your franchise for years to come.

This way you MAYBE Have ONE shot at title at best. You ruined your any future trade credentials..when you will look to trade AD , Irwing and whoever else for years to come. What do you think Dallas will be offered for any of these players? hahaha..

The franchise is done in Dallas and will be moved to Vegas in 2-3 years tops. As soon as revenue starts to drop and ot will start immediately..you think fans will buy AD jerseys? Haha..

They destroyed Mavs in Dallas..and it has to be deliberate..to move them to Vegas,,thats the only explanation behind all of this

I'm not defending the trade. I'm just saying the trade had more to do with business than basketball.

When you have someone who is on track to end up a top 10 player of all time by the time he retires, you move literally ANYONE and EVERYONE else on the team before you move that player.

If "business" is the real reason then it makes the trade even worse. I thought the Thunder not wanting to pay James Harden because they signed Kendrick Perkins was bad but this would blow that out of the water

[Mr.Raptorsingh]

Make no sense at all, even if it is luxury tax, and tariffs coming back from Canada, Mexico, China etc..than you trade for 2young prospects and 7 FRP, and couple of swaps and seconds..you set uo your franchise for years to come.

This way you MAYBE Have ONE shot at title at best. You ruined your any future trade credentials..when you will look to trade AD , Irwing and whoever else for years to come. What do you think Dallas will be offered for any of these players? hahaha..

The franchise is done in Dallas and will be moved to Vegas in 2-3 years tops. As soon as revenue starts to drop and ot will start immediately..you think fans will buy AD jerseys? Haha..

They destroyed Mavs in Dallas..and it has to be deliberate..to move them to Vegas,,thats the only explanation behind all of this

I'm not defending the trade. I'm just saying the trade had more to do with business than basketball.

Mavs owner is a Trump supporter who was left billions by her husband

Probably took basketball advice from the Trumpster and decided to deport Luka to California

Trump told her to trade Luka

[Decipher]

I'm not defending the trade. I'm just saying the trade had more to do with business than basketball.

Mavs owner is a Trump supporter who was left billions by her husband

Probably took basketball advice from the Trumpster and decided to deport Luka to California

Trump told her to trade Luka

And put tariffs on the Lakers

[Tomhomes33]

Nico must have been ordered to do this deal.
I mean, IF THE GUY HAS ANY BRAINS, he would realize before pulling off that trade, that his GM career and CEO career in any valuable business came to retirement today,

[Mr.Raptorsingh]

Mavs fan attendance 'bout to tank

[HotRocks34]

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[zshawn10]

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[Tomhomes33]

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This is BS for the media.

[Mr.Raptorsingh]

Dirk probably called Cuban and was like 'WTF man'

[foobar24]

With talk of Luka's contract and being out of shape for the reason to trade him, I can't help but relate back to Shaq's exit from Lakers; and then 2 years later Shaq wins a ring with the Heat.

[Jazz9]

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Their excuses are almost as bad as the trade itself.
You don't view Luka as the building block of your team so you trade him for 6 years older injury prone AD

[atlantabbq99]

Why is everybody playing dumb........ the trade is lop sided because Luka demanded the trade the told the mavs front office that the only place he wanted to go was LA or NYC.

Dallas should feel bad because this shows they are a fake big market and mavs and cowboys have a history of big time free agents avoiding the place because it sucks to live in.

Even Dion was like, i would rather play baseball then stay in this place.

[bledredwine]

Except for the part when they, you know... gave UP an All-NBA player to GET an All-NBA player. So actually, NOT really all that similar, HUH?

Are you talking about the injury prone one who’s six years older often plays fifty game seasons and wasn’t in the finals last year like Luka?

Who was an All NBA 2nd team selection last year. Stick to facts, leave emotion out of it, it'll be ok... But anyway, tell me which All-NBA player(s) the heat gave up to sign Lebron/Bosh? "None", you say? Just what I thought...

I’ll just assume that you’re not too sharp because I wrote “trade equivalent of the Heatles” meaning, a new trend unfair trend is set
So you’re trying to tell me that you believe this is an even trade? Trying to get an idea of your IQ

[Ayt]

Las Vegas Sands Corp probably viewed Luka's upcoming contract extension as a potential risk. In business, there's this thing called risk mitigation. It's the practice of reducing the impact of potential risks by developing a plan to manage, eliminate, or limit setbacks as much as possible.

Luka was up for a $340 million contract extension this summer. If the Mavs signed Luka to that extension, they would have to put $340 million in an escrow account because NBA contracts are guaranteed.

This trade eliminates the need to pay Luka, avoids the NBA luxury tax, and gives the Mavs ownership a share of the luxury tax revenue. The NBA is a capital-intensive business, so if the Mavs owners are facing potential financial problems with their other businesses, this trade makes a lot of sense.

You are posting complete nonsense. They are huge Trump supporters and are worth tens of billions of dollars.

You need to look up the fiduciary responsibility corporations have to their investors.

Las Vegas Sands Corp is a publicly traded company. Their stock price is currently down year-to-date.

Just because you're a billionaire doesn't mean you have millions and billions in cash.

Most Las Vegas Sands Corp money is tied up in real estate, investments, and business operations.

All NBA trades must be approved by the team owners, so the Mavs owners didn't want to pay Luka.

I'm speculating why, but I'm guessing business played a larger role than basketball.

Again, you are posting complete nonsense.

[Mr.Raptorsingh]

Pretty sure Patrick Riley would've traded Butler and Adebayo and then some for Doncic

[LikeMike23]

You are posting complete nonsense. They are huge Trump supporters and are worth tens of billions of dollars.

You need to look up the fiduciary responsibility corporations have to their investors.

Las Vegas Sands Corp is a publicly traded company. Their stock price is currently down year-to-date.

Just because you're a billionaire doesn't mean you have millions and billions in cash.

Most Las Vegas Sands Corp money is tied up in real estate, investments, and business operations.

All NBA trades must be approved by the team owners, so the Mavs owners didn't want to pay Luka.

I'm speculating why, but I'm guessing business played a larger role than basketball.

Again, you are posting complete nonsense.

You must be an angry Luka fan

[HotRocks34]

Mavs media is handling things well. Lot of this going around that ecosphere.
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