Luka AD trade thread Part II

[G R E Y]

Cold world.

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Omg first time hearing him talk.

He **** OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZES creepy vibes with the soft snake voice shifty eyes and teeth baring that approximates a smile.

Absolute red flags.

[TeamTragic]

So Luka didn’t make it known that he wanted to be traded, or that he wanted to move on once his current deal is done.

Coach didn’t go to the front office saying he couldn’t coach the franchise player anymore.

A first time GM has a coffee date with another GM. During said coffee the idea of trading your franchise player and top 5 player in the league who is only 25.

You don’t open this up to the rest of the league to start a bidding war, or at minimum get a good sense of a baseline return you can get for him.

And you end up going through with it? All without telling your star player or your coach. Again this is a GM who has had this job for less than 5 years and never been a GM before.

2 questions.

1. How can someone get this job when he’s capable of this kind of mindset. Trading freaking Luka away without creating a bidding war and without him ever saying he wants out.

2. How can the owners of this team green light this? I’m sorry if I was the owner of Dallas and my GM comes up to me and says all of this is going on. I’m firing him on the spot. The fact the ownership was giving thumbs up for this entire time. Good luck going forward with that ownership group.

The NBA is all about helping your buddies out and most if not all FO hire previous players, coaches and their best friends.

This only went down because Rob and Nico go back. Besides Silver wants to make the Lakers relevant beyond LeBron.

[Tim Kempton]

Talked to an old friend. Trading Luka was part of an under-the-table agreement that Miriam Adelson and the Dumonts made with Adam Silver (allegedly) in order to let them buy majority ownership of the team. It wasn't a matter of if Luka was going to LA, only a matter of when. Everything else is a distraction.

[Marvin Martian]

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More BS to justify making a rigged trade. Now let's see the series that convinced DAL that AD was their man

[JujitsuFlip]

Positives from the Bron Luka pairing is he can rub off on him and Luka will learn how to take care of his body on an elite level.

Negatives LeBron might rub off on him and Luka will be come an elite insufferable douchebag

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[Harry Palmer]

I'm still just completely shook over this trade. This can't be real life. Absolutely surreal.

NBA corruption just completely out in the open now.

It’s always been like this. In fact Stern was waaaay more open about it than Silver is. This is one of the reasons Lakers Championships should have asterisks. Or better yet, rolleyes.

I've always felt the Lakers stuff is overblown (the league did veto the Paul trade, and a lot of players do just flat out want to play in LA). But this one, this is just silly. It has the feel of, "the fans are tuning out anyways, let's just get it done and figure out how we'll explain it later".

Kareem, Kobe, Shaq, LeBron, etc. overblown?

[wco81]

It’s always been like this. In fact Stern was waaaay more open about it than Silver is. This is one of the reasons Lakers Championships should have asterisks. Or better yet, rolleyes.

I've always felt the Lakers stuff is overblown (the league did veto the Paul trade, and a lot of players do just flat out want to play in LA). But this one, this is just silly. It has the feel of, "the fans are tuning out anyways, let's just get it done and figure out how we'll explain it later".

Kareem, Kobe, Shaq, LeBron, etc. overblown?

Don't forget Magic.

Equivalent would be a team like the Knicks last year getting the first pick of the draft with a generational prospect like Wemby in the draft class.

In 1979, it was the Lakers who had the #1 pick based on trading away a washed player to the Jazz for their FRP, which became Magic Johnson.

David Stern loved Showtime and Bird vs. Magic the rest of the '80s. BTW, the way the Celtics ended up with Bird, one of the top players in the nation, is also unusual.

[JujitsuFlip]

Are people still arguing JJ wasn't LeBron's pick for coach? I watched a couple of their podcasts and the two of them couldn't be glazing each other more if they tried, there's absolutely no way he wasn't at the very top of LeBron's short list for guys he wanted. Not saying he wasn't a decent coaching prospect, but the LBJ connection couldn't have been more blatant.

I think it funny tidbit it JJ and Luka were teammates for like 2 months to end his career and now he's his head coach.

[Enso]

Talked to an old friend. Trading Luka was part of an under-the-table agreement that Miriam Adelson and the Dumonts made with Adam Silver (allegedly) in order to let them buy majority ownership of the team. It wasn't a matter of if Luka was going to LA, only a matter of when. Everything else is a distraction.

No way we might have the same friend, I was told the same thing but he also told me Hector is gonna be running three Honda Civics with Spoon engines.

On top of that, he just came into Harry’s and ordered three T66 turbos with NOS and a Motec system exhaust.

[Liam_Gallagher]

The Lakers are good.

[G R E Y]

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Nico saying he started thinking about it after a coffee date with Pelinka?
U dumba** you got played over a coffee date?
Nico acting like a chick daydreaming over a coffee date

Can’t make this stuff up

Wait. By "future" he means "3-4 years from now, not 10 years from now... They'll probably bury me and J by then."

What. In. The. Actual. ****?!

LAL just got their next 7 years or so set. You absolutely plan in 1 3 5 10 year phases anticipating league/cap/availability of other players/draft changes that affect building around your star.

Absolutely no sensical answer.

And wtf was that 'bury us' comment...

Red. ****. Flags.

[JM00n69]

I've always felt the Lakers stuff is overblown (the league did veto the Paul trade, and a lot of players do just flat out want to play in LA). But this one, this is just silly. It has the feel of, "the fans are tuning out anyways, let's just get it done and figure out how we'll explain it later".

CP3 trade was vetoed only because during that time the Hornets team was controlled by the NBA, aka Stern. Due to ownership issues the league had to step in and take control of managing the team to facilitate a smooth handover. Stern vetoed the trade because he was in charge of the Hornets at that time and a trade that big would've been a conflict of interests.

I know the reasoning behind it, I'm just saying technically they didn't have to veto it, it just would have been more blatant favoritism. I don't see how this is that much better though, you have the Mavericks GM openly admitting not only that he didn't field other offers, but that he spent 4 weeks discussing this without fielding other offers? That's arguably just as blatant malpractice, even if it can't be proven the NBA itself had anything to do with it openly.

There was no they the decision was down to Stern only just like Silver now has the option here. And Stern made the right call back then. He had to take control of the team to continue the season and facilitate a smooth change of ownership. Making any changes to the team personnel during that period is a serious level of involvement by the one person who has to be impartial because they are in charge of the whole league.

This trade smells of BS because they didn't shop Luka. I don't know much about Nico but he looked guilty as **** in that interview. I don't see Silver being involved in this at all and he should not veto it unless there is clear evidence of foul play. I do think AD wasn't that happy with the team. Some of the comments he's made this year to the media. I can see them being open for the right trade but not actively shopping him. Maybe Rob used his relationship with Nico to fleece him. Bad trades do happen.

[Kobe187]

Lot’s of conspiracy theories surrounding this trade lol

[Riot Randolph]

I want to see a graphic of combined return for Luka and brunson departure

[John Murdoch]

Nico and Pelinka are very similar dudes

[NyKnicks1714]

Have we heard anything from Luka, AD, or LeBron yet?

[rockmanslim]

Feb. 25 and Apr. 9, mark your calendars, getcha popcorn ready

[Ballerhogger]

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More BS to justify making a rigged trade. Now let's see the series that convinced DAL that AD was their man

2020 bubble series against Denver

[Ballerhogger]

Have we heard anything from Luka, AD, or LeBron yet?

Lebron was shocked and not told about it

[CobraCommander]

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