Holy Mother of... Luka to Lakers, AD to Dallas

dagger · Post #81 » by **dagger** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:37 am

djsunyc wrote:why trade him to the lakers of all teams? they wouldve had a huge bidding war.

The point is, he could have used his opt-out to get to his preferred team, and as soon as that became public, the Cavs would have lost a lot of leverage, like SAC has lost with Fox basically targeting San Antonio.

nestea · Post #82 » by **nestea** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:37 am

I'll tell you right now, Lakers not winning anything with this trade

S ID · Post #83 » by **S ID** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:37 am

Lmfaooooo

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T-d0t · Post #84 » by **T-d0t** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:39 am

NBA is insane

Lord_Zedd · Post #85 » by **Lord_Zedd** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:39 am

lol that's even worse. Of all the teams Mavs had to pick, it had to be the Lakers

dagger · Post #86 » by **dagger** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:39 am

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Basketball_Jones · Post #87 » by **Basketball_Jones** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:40 am

nestea wrote:I'll tell you right now, Lakers not winning anything with this trade

Their main issue(among many) is defense and they did not get better there at all lol

C_Money · Post #88 » by **C_Money** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:40 am

Sounds like a move that would get a GM fired.

ForeverTFC · Post #89 » by **ForeverTFC** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:40 am

ill-Will03 wrote:Wait couldn’t we have easily beat this offer?

Half the league could have beat this offer. Something is up. Were Lakers set up for max space in '26? Why would they make this trade now?

Steven1562 · Post #90 » by **Steven1562** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:41 am

It's crazy how the Lakers went from Kobe to Lebron to now Luka....

Pointgod · Post #91 » by **Pointgod** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:41 am

nestea wrote:I'll tell you right now, Lakers not winning anything with this trade

Lmao bro Lakers could go 0-82 next season and this would still be the greatest trade in NBA history.

douggood · Post #92 » by **douggood** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:41 am

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PushDaRock · Post #93 » by **PushDaRock** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:41 am

lol wtf I was laughing at the hack and this turns out to be real?

There had to be some internal issues with Luka or he told them he wasn't gonna extend? Only way this makes any sense.

ForeverTFC · Post #94 » by **ForeverTFC** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:42 am

S ID wrote:Lmfaooooo

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Did he piss off the Adelsons or something? None of this makes any sense.

YoungG · Post #95 » by **YoungG** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:42 am

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Mavs...I mean, their starting line up is more balanced, but to just trade away Luka like that...Damn...

kalel123 · Post #96 » by **kalel123** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:42 am

Would like to hear behind the scenes story on this one. Surely, you would think Mavs could've gotten a haul more massive than the one they ended up getting. Had heard Cuban is no longer in control there. Wonder if that is actually true and if so, what he must be thinking. Luka was the franchise and now he's gone just like that without warning.

On the other hand, how does Doncic fit with LeBron and no big man? I guess for talent like that, maybe you act first and ask questions later? But with neither of them playing defense and them having traded a major defensive piece in AD, I'm thinking they are going to be even less of a threat to compete this year than before the trade? Not sure how they'd build a team around those two having traded away so many trade assets already.

JN · Post #97 » by JN » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:42 am

I don't understand this for Dallas.

Is there video dropping shortly of Doncic killing kittens?

Jerry Lucas · Post #98 » by **Jerry Lucas** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:42 am

**** the Lakers

Ackshun · Post #99 » by **Ackshun** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:43 am

S ID wrote:Lmfaooooo

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rarefind · Post #100 » by **rarefind** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 5:43 am

Scizzup wrote:
rarefind wrote:This makes no sense. We could have arguably put together a better package while not including Scottie.

No they couldn't. AD is better value than anything Raptors got. AD is even more valuable than Scottie at this age.

But Mavs could have got much better value than that.

Anthony Davis is 31 (will be 32 in March). While he may no longer be as injury prone as he used to be, the Mavs just made themselves worse.

An offer of multiple FRP's, and pick literally a combo of anyone not named Scottie Barnes and that package is right there.