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

[JujitsuFlip]

29 other teams just called Nico and said 'bruh I would've given you more than that'

The Mavs called themselves? I can believe that lol

[hauntedcomputer]

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

No, it still doesn't make sense. If you wanted to trade him, announce it now and take offers into the summer. This is at best a quarter for a dollar, and probably closer to 15 cents. You'd get more than this for only one year of Luka.

[Camby_Bamby]

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

Hmmm. Interesting analysis.

[Homer38]

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

New Orleans was controled by the NBA at that time....

[JujitsuFlip]

Any way Dallas trades for James Butler?

Irving
Thompson
Butler
Davis
Lively

'Ship?

I'm sure they will try.

Geriatric home Mavs.

[CallMeKahn]

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.

Given the Mavericks literally lost hundreds of millions in franchise value with this one move, I'm confident in saying that politics is a red herring. New owners generally don't intentionally lose that much cash on "orders" or whatever. There a longer term play in that, assuming they aren't just catastrophically stupid.

[bwgood77]

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

Exactly, all this other stuff is smoke and mirrors. His agent told Dallas we are signing with the Lakers next summer, and will let other GMs know this if you attempt to trade us anywhere but the Lakers.

Luka camp saving face from fans by acting "stunned" and not getting **** on by Mavs fans, etc.

Mavs camp trying to save face, instill confidence in team, fans and AD, while somewhat rationalize it. But at some point when they are taking so much crap, the real news will come out.

[CallMeKahn]

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.

That hopium must have hit hella hard this morning.

[___Rand___]

We've seen new owners try to shake things up with big trades. Let's see if it works out.

[The4thHorseman]

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?

To all those who've claimed that here on realgm for the last 5yrs.

[Bankai]

It's funny calling AD a "win now" move when he is injured half the time. Kyrie can't carry the load. Lets be real, this is a stealth tank move for the Mavs and a favor for the Lakers.

Any justification they can come up with for trading Luka can be destroyed by the fact they went straight for Davis who has more even more baggage.

[scrabbarista]

Sounds great, but no one believes this. No one believes the League won't bend over backwards to make Luka Doncic a success in Los Angeles, just as it always has with its biggest stars - in whatever market they happen to play.

In case I was too subtle, "bend over backwards" means... whatever you want it to mean.

[kodo]

I can't imagine Lebron is OK with being Luka's #2, is Lebron being traded at the deadline?

[dballislife]

lakers: i think we have 2 1st that we can trade

mavericks: no your majesty, we only need 1 because you still need a center to truly contend, so use that 1st on vucevic

lakers: thanks bitch

[mademan]

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

Exactly, all this other stuff is smoke and mirrors. His agent told Dallas we are signing with the Lakers next summer, and will let other GMs know this if you attempt to trade us anywhere but the Lakers.

Luka camp saving face from fans by acting "stunned" and not getting **** on by Mavs fans, etc.

Mavs camp trying to save face, instill confidence in team, fans and AD, while somewhat rationalize it. But at some point when they are taking so much crap, the real news will come out.

Kawhi was also a superstar, and when he was injured on an expiring, he returned just Derozan/Poeltl and a 1st.

IF this is true, then it makes sense. And it also makes the Mavs FO look competent for getting ahead of it and getting relatively a great package given the situation. Im not sure this is the case tho

[og15]

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

The league could veto it if there was some reason, but it would have nothing to do with why the CP to Lakers trade was vetoed. Dallas isn't in an ownership limbo and being controlled by the NBA. The NBA in this situation would have to have some serious reasons that aren't basketball reasons, we're the owner of the team currently and don't like this.

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

No, it still doesn't make sense. If you wanted to trade him, announce it now and take offers into the summer. This is at best a quarter for a dollar, and probably closer to 15 cents. You'd get more than this for only one year of Luka.

It doesn't still make sense to me, so one would think that this has to be some Luka said he's only going to LA (why, I don't know), trade me there before I'm a few agent, and at least get something because I won't re-sign with anyone else.

Problem is that Marc Stein reported that Luka did not internally request a trade, sooo....

[azcatz11]

Why would anyone believe this?

Read on Twitter

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[Camby_Bamby]

Sounds great, but no one believes this. No one believes the League won't bend over backwards to make Luka Doncic a success in Los Angeles, just as it always has with its biggest stars - in whatever market they happen to play.

If he really is sitting at 270pounds, Mavs won by a country mile. Interesting trade for the lakers - know why the Mavs would do it. It’s common sense

[Yuri36]

I can't imagine Lebron is OK with being Luka's #2, is Lebron being traded at the deadline?

LeBron is 40, loves Luka and has nothing left to prove so I don't think he'll complain to be Luka's #2 at this stage of his career.
But if he can remain at least the leader out of basketball court and teach Luka a few things about work ethic and how to achieve greatness then it will be useful at least for Luka.

[CallMeKahn]

Why would anyone believe this?

Read on Twitter

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I think Perkins' soul just melted.