Luka traded to the Lakers

arkuo · Post #1121 » by **arkuo** » Sat May 17, 2025 7:22 am

The Knicks already made a blueprint for Pelinka and the Lakers. In most ways, Brunson is a mini Luka. Now all Pelinka needs to do is send away Reaves, LBJ, Hachimura and Hayes. Find himself a Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart and OG Anunoby to flank Luka. And convince a Karl Anthony Towns type to sign with LA after all of that. All before Luka turns 30.

Mr B · Post #1122 » by **Mr B** » Sat May 17, 2025 7:36 am

arkuo wrote:The Knicks already madea blueprint for Pelinka and the Lakers. In most ways, Brunson is a mini Luka. Now all Pelinka needs to do is send away Reaves, LBJ, Hachimura and Hayes. Find himself a Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart and OG Anunoby to flank Luka. And convince a Karl Anthony Towns type to sign with LA after all of that. All before Luka turns 30.

By then Cooper Flagg will still only be about 24 years old .

arkuo · Post #1123 » by **arkuo** » Sat May 17, 2025 7:40 am

Mr B wrote:
arkuo wrote:The Knicks already madea blueprint for Pelinka and the Lakers. In most ways, Brunson is a mini Luka. Now all Pelinka needs to do is send away Reaves, LBJ, Hachimura and Hayes. Find himself a Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart and OG Anunoby to flank Luka. And convince a Karl Anthony Towns type to sign with LA after all of that. All before Luka turns 30.

By then Cooper Flagg will still only be about 24 years old .

And just about to enter his prime. We're here for it! :nod:

Post #1124 » by **Mavrelous** » Mon Jun 9, 2025 12:37 pm

Still a legend Don

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Mr B · Post #1125 » by **Mr B** » Mon Jun 9, 2025 1:19 pm

Mavrelous wrote:Still a legend Don

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Nellie has always had a love for PG’s. So it’s not surprising he would say that. He said the same thing about the Mavs when they traded Jason Kidd about a month before they hired him to run their team.

41Dirk41 · Post #1126 » by **41Dirk41** » Mon Jun 9, 2025 8:55 pm

Mr B wrote:
Mavrelous wrote:Still a legend Don

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Nellie has always had a love for PG’s. So it’s not surprising he would say that. He said the same thing about the Mavs when they traded Jason Kidd about a month before they hired him to run their team.

So they will fire Harrison and hire Nelson? Yes please.

Mr B · Post #1127 » by **Mr B** » Mon Jun 9, 2025 9:21 pm

41Dirk41 wrote:
Mr B wrote:
Mavrelous wrote:Still a legend Don

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Nellie has always had a love for PG’s. So it’s not surprising he would say that. He said the same thing about the Mavs when they traded Jason Kidd about a month before they hired him to run their team.

So they will fire Harrison and hire Nelson? Yes please.

Nope, Nellie is opposite of Nico when it some offense and defense. At least he was when he coached the Mavs. He forbid defense because it just slowed the game down. I’ve actually seen him bench guys for playing defense.

Upperclass · Post #1128 » by **Upperclass** » Wed Jun 18, 2025 8:53 pm

What a league

41Dirk41 · Post #1129 » by **41Dirk41** » Wed Jun 18, 2025 10:26 pm

@ShamsCharania
Mark Walter is entering agreement to purchase majority ownership of the Lakers from the Buss family for a valuation of approximately $10 billion, the largest sale of a professional sports franchise in the world, sources tell ESPN.

Embarassing. Honestly. It's all a joke.

Mr B · Post #1130 » by **Mr B** » Wed Jun 18, 2025 11:26 pm

41Dirk41 wrote:@ShamsCharania
Mark Walter is entering agreement to purchase majority ownership of the Lakers from the Buss family for a valuation of approximately $10 billion, the largest sale of a professional sports franchise in the world, sources tell ESPN.

Embarassing. Honestly. It's all a joke.

Luka for AD who says no?

Post #1131 » by **Mavrelous** » Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:56 am

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Heezzi · Post #1132 » by **Heezzi** » Fri Jun 20, 2025 1:35 pm

Mr B wrote:
41Dirk41 wrote:@ShamsCharania
Mark Walter is entering agreement to purchase majority ownership of the Lakers from the Buss family for a valuation of approximately $10 billion, the largest sale of a professional sports franchise in the world, sources tell ESPN.

Embarassing. Honestly. It's all a joke.

Luka for AD who says no?

I do.

Archx · Post #1133 » by **Archx** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:58 pm

Heezzi wrote:
Mr B wrote:
41Dirk41 wrote:@ShamsCharania
Mark Walter is entering agreement to purchase majority ownership of the Lakers from the Buss family for a valuation of approximately $10 billion, the largest sale of a professional sports franchise in the world, sources tell ESPN.

Embarassing. Honestly. It's all a joke.

Luka for AD who says no?

I do.

...aaand the new Laker owner surely must be aware of this. I think he would also say no.

arkuo · Post #1134 » by **arkuo** » Sun Jun 22, 2025 7:28 am

Archx wrote:
Heezzi wrote:
Mr B wrote:Luka for AD who says no?

I do.

...aaand the new Laker owner surely must be aware of this. I think he would also say no.

The Lakers is America's team. The size of the fanbase alone would make other teams look small. So there is the cycle of helping send stars their way. Mavs will have at least 7 or 8 years of Flagg under team control. Then he's fair game after that. If the new Lakers' owner would like to purchase him like Ohtani, then he has a corresponding price. It's sports entertainment. Everything has a price. It's not FIBA. Safe to assume that the new Lakers' owner would like to stack all stars like he has with the Dodgers. So I'm assuming Giannis maybe Jokic to LA too. Other teams are not competing for the title. They are just there to add to the excitement.

arkuo · Post #1135 » by **arkuo** » Sat Jun 28, 2025 11:44 am

Anyone here think if the Lakers would get sold for $8B if they only had Lebron and AD on the team?

I personally think not. Luka was part of the reason that price tag is up there. Not the sole reason, but part of.

Archx · Post #1136 » by **Archx** » Sat Jun 28, 2025 10:55 pm

Interview with ex Mavs employee on what happened when the trade went down plus more about Nico and Adelsons. Some wild stories there.

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Dirk2Doncic · Post #1137 » by **Dirk2Doncic** » Fri Jul 4, 2025 4:00 pm

Archx wrote:
Heezzi wrote:
Mr B wrote:Luka for AD who says no?

I do.

...aaand the new Laker owner surely must be aware of this. I think he would also say no.

Which tells us...

He clearly had no championships in his future. If the goal is championships, you HAD TO get rid of him.

Fortune favors the bold

Nico Harrison drools in a cup every time he speaks. It's a pattern. I've seen this level of tone deaf selfishness and the stupidity that goes with it in the corporate world before.

Newby in over their heads ownership has a chance to repair some of the damage and bring in a legit basketball GM after Kyrie's knee conspired to bring Cooper Flagg.

*Note* I'm sure Flagg will at least be a good player, but chances of him ever becoming a franchise player are not high. Mavericks have had 2 of those in their entire history. Half the league has never had one. I'm not saying there is no chance, I"m just sayin'. We shall see.

ACMFFL · Post #1138 » by **ACMFFL** » Sat Jul 5, 2025 7:38 am

With all due respect but I trust more and give more credits to draft experts who consider Flagg a generational prospect.
Anything could happen but he has all the talent and potential of this world to be a franchise player.

Dirk2Doncic · Post #1139 » by **Dirk2Doncic** » Sat Jul 5, 2025 1:57 pm

ACMFFL wrote:With all due respect but I trust more and give more credits to draft experts who consider Flagg a generational prospect.
Anything could happen but he has all the talent and potential of this world to be a franchise player.

Scotty Pippen was not a franchise player. That's the comp I heard from Jay Bilas.

Fans get googly eyed, put their hopes in dreams in unproven prospects.

IMO, Flagg's floor is a good NBA player and probably better than that. There is an enormous gap between that though and a true franchise player in my view. Will he ever be an elite closer on offense at the NBA level? Pippen wasn't.

HOF player is not equal to franchise player, not really even in the same basketball universe.

ACMFFL · Post #1140 » by **ACMFFL** » Sat Jul 5, 2025 3:22 pm

Dirk2Doncic wrote:
ACMFFL wrote:With all due respect but I trust more and give more credits to draft experts who consider Flagg a generational prospect.
Anything could happen but he has all the talent and potential of this world to be a franchise player.

Scotty Pippen was not a franchise player. That's the comp I heard from Jay Bilas.

Fans get googly eyed, put their hopes in dreams in unproven prospects.

IMO, Flagg's floor is a good NBA player and probably better than that. There is an enormous gap between that though and a true franchise player in my view. Will he ever be an elite closer on offense at the NBA level? Pippen wasn't.

HOF player is not equal to franchise player, not really even in the same basketball universe.

According to Givony and Vecenie is a can't-miss prospect, the best all-around talent in years coming from the college and fwiw from what I saw he actually looks like the next big thing.
That's just one comparison, the most common ones are with Tatum, Kawhi, but Scottie was a hell of a player tho, one of the most impactful of his time.
Who knows if he'll live up to his hype but his ceiling is definitely franchise player.

Sometimes it feels like some fans are so mad at mr. Harrison that they downplay Flagg talent by default just because they hate the GM, more or less the same mistake that some skeptical Americans did when Luka entered the league, but this time coming from former or badly pissed off Mavs fans.
I'm still badly mad too at that trade and will hate Harrison (and Silver) forever, but gosh it's time to move on, there is no point in dwelling on the past, at least we got something to want to cheer for again.

In Italy we use to say that it makes no sense for the husband to cut his dick off just to spite his wife. :lol: