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

[Bobbymcgee]

Dallas didn’t even get the 2031 first?!? The injury must be real serious for this to happen.

The Lakers get to save that pick for another superstar player obviously.

[Romeiro Celtic]

Seriously. This got to be the worst trade I’ve ever seen in my life. Not even the BKN one beats this. This must be investigated. There’s no way a Superstar is traded for peaches like this. AD is not in anyways close to Luka in value.

[LikeMike23]

Again, you are posting complete nonsense.

I'm gonna leave this right here: Brian Windhorst, Tim Bontemps, and Tim MacMahon basically saying everything I said.

Mavs ownership didn't want to pay Luka!

Bontemps called it the BIGGEST short in NBA history, meaning Mavs ownership didn't want to invest long-term in Luka. They saw that 5-year, $345 million contract extension as a bad investment.

Watch on YouTube

[Optimus_Steel]

If Danny Ainge knew of the trade then so did Lebron. How pathetic “oh he didn’t know” take.

[twozeroMM]

Do the Mavs go after Jimmy now? Go for it this season again

[DudetheObscure]

The 46 people who voted that Dallas won the trade should be banned from RealGM for being so ignorant about the NBA.

[tsherkin]

Woke up to this. Did not expect.

Don't love the fit for the Lakers. I guess it improves their financial future. And of course Luka is very good. But they worsen appreciably on D, have no front court to speak of and Luka conflicts with Lebron a bunch in terms of style of play, unless James is committed to rocking it in the post and as a screener much more from now on. It isn't THAT bad, Luka was making it work with Kyrie, but it's not an ideal fit.

Definitely not a move I saw coming at all, hah.

[Camby_Bamby]

Mavs have a QUESTIONABLE trade history, but made out like bandits this time.

Mavs become a legitimate title contended with a top 3 player in the league and arguably the best defensive player in the league who gets to play his desired position. They also get a up and coming two way athletic guard who loves to play defense in Christie. Could they have gotten more? Probably, but they have the pieces to win now.

Lakers get the Happy Meal, Brooklyn variant of James Harden who's even worse on defense. With Luka nearly being the size of an amateur sumo wrestler and monopolising the ball, it won't attract the stars that the Lakers want in the future.

[druggas]

I like that the trade brought so many people back here to post!

[Ayt]

This thread took an odd swing towards Trump.

It's really not that odd if you think about it. Corruption this severe should be noticed by the head of state. At least, in a functioning society.

What corruption?

[Johnny Firpo]

Luckily you started with the "top 3 player" bit about AD, so we knew it wasn't worth reading the whole thing.

[CallMeKahn]

If Danny Ainge knew of the trade then so did Lebron. How pathetic “oh he didn’t know” take.

My guess is Plinko got a hold of Danny to make the numbers work. JHS is a FA after the season, to eating the contract for a couple of seconds (which Utah didn't have a plethora of) makes sense (suspect they'll waive him). After that, he probably texted Bron to get his sign off as there's little that happens on the Lakers without Bron-Bron's approval.

[Ayt]

Funny how Luka went being labeled a fat, overweight, out of shape beer drinker to outrage that Dallas didn't get enough in return for the above who doesn't take the game seriously.

Make up your mind folks.

Who are you talking to?

[Bergmaniac]

Luckily you started with the "with the "top 3 player" bit about AD, so we knew it's not worth it reading the whole thing.

I reached the same conclusion when I saw who posted the thread, LOL.

[John Murdoch]

This absolutely has to be investigated. There are a number of teams that could have easily beaten this deal. Any faith I had left that the NBA was an actual sport, is gone.

Name a team, they could have put together a better deal.

This deal should be stopped, immediately. For the integrity of the league.

JDubb and like 7 picks is prob the route i woulda took if i was tryna rebuild...but retool ..nah

[meatwad4343]

Only way this makes any sense is if Luka told Dallas internally that he wants out and would only sign an extension in LA

[Ayt]

Again, you are posting complete nonsense.

I'm gonna leave this right here: Brian Windhorst, Tim Bontemps, and Tim MacMahon basically saying everything I said.

Mavs ownership didn't want to pay Luka!

Bontemps called it the BIGGEST short in NBA history, meaning Mavs ownership didn't want to invest long-term in Luka. They saw that 5-year, $345 million contract extension as a bad investment.

Watch on YouTube

That isn't what we were even talking about. Go back and read what I put in bold in your first post.

[bwgood77]

If Luka wasn't probably leaving in 2026 and was prepared to tell teams it would be the Lakers which triggered this trade, the league should certainly veto this trade, and maybe should anyway.

There is no way it isn't more lopsided than:

Chris Paul to the Lakers, Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets, and Lamar Odom, Luis Scola, Kevin Martin, Goran Dragic, and a 2012 first-round draft pick to the Hornets.

Which was vetoed

[CallMeKahn]

Only way this makes any sense is if Luka told Dallas internally that he wants out and would only sign an extension in LA

Given nobody knew about it, that's not likely. Harrison had to have been ordered to make that deal.

[hauntedcomputer]

This thread took an odd swing towards Trump.

It's really not that odd if you think about it. Corruption this severe should be noticed by the head of state. At least, in a functioning society.

Miriam Adelson was in the oligarchy luxury box at the Trump inauguration. Mark Cuban is #2 of followers total on X rival Bluesky and has turned pretty loudly liberal. I mean, it's Deep State stuff, but this makes no basketball sense at all for the Mavs. Even if you buy the "Conditioning and Defense and luxury tax" BS (Adelson worth $32 billion), the asset price is just laughably askew.

I know this is no politics zone, but this is an ownership move, not one some random GM thinks up out of the blue. People discount ownership motivations because we try to be fans and it gets harder when you realize not everyone's trying to win.