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

[sashaturiaf]

This should also solidify LeBron as the best GM in the sport.

Just sign him and you are guaranteed to have another superstar dealt to your team. Doesn't matter if he is 45,50 or in a walker. Just sign him and your franchise will be golden.

For decades the Lakers have somehow tricked other teams in given them lopsided trades.
LeBron has that same effect.

Pair both of them together and you have a cheat code more powerful than the Konami code.

LeBron had nothing to do with this. He could end up in GS before the week is up.

How naive you are. Lebrons fingerprints are all over this trade

He just extended his career by 5 years with a chance to pick up a few titles, all the while getting Luka under his sphere of influence so that he can't challenge lebrons longevity records.

[Zetsword]

This should also solidify LeBron as the best GM in the sport.

Just sign him and you are guaranteed to have another superstar dealt to your team. Doesn't matter if he is 45,50 or in a walker. Just sign him and your franchise will be golden.

For decades the Lakers have somehow tricked other teams in given them lopsided trades.
LeBron has that same effect.

Pair both of them together and you have a cheat code more powerful than the Konami code.

LeBron had nothing to do with this. He could end up in GS before the week is up.

Yea, this is how you convince him to drop that no trade clause

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[John Murdoch]

Ill be honest, ill be happy about this trade. I love AD but I would love luka way more... hes also younger than AD and a DAWG which AD can be only at times.

This would be the coup of the century for the Lakers.

Mildly amusing you think this is some sort of hot take.

Anyways, it’s gone now. Fake news.

[Me Like Lakers]

What I find it crazy about this out of nowhere superstar trades is how come the discussions start. I mean, If I was a GM, I would never guess Luka would be attainable (other than some crazy haul like billions of picks plus a star), so I wouldn't even waste my time asking about it.

[Tomhomes33]

League needs to veto this. This is insanity.

Unironically yes. Silver has a responsibility to save the mavs fans from the single most incompetent move any GM has ever made

If Silver steps in, I'd be somewhat pissed only that he didn't also veto the Gobert and KAT trades that were insanely stupid moves by Minny.

I actually think SILVER IS BEHIND THIS..
He was aware and approved it, as Lakers got their next Witt..Magic..Shaque..Kobe..LBJ..so the business in Hollywood valley and NBA revenues can increase.
On the other hand after the Mavs revenue in Dallas bottom rockets because of this, new Mavs owners will get green light to move the franchise to Vegas

Potentially huge win-win for NBA, Lakers, Vegas, and New Mavs Owners.
Loss for everybody else.

Hope NBA fans in USA will stop paying for tickets and streams becuase of this **** and NBA will lose even more..

[Sofia]

Don’t know what’s more shocking, the trade itself or the fact that there are some people in this thread trying to justify this trade for the Mavs. This is malpractice by Nico Harrison of the highest order. I’d be sick to my stomach right now if I were a Mavs fan.

Some of the usual clowns in purple and gold face paint saying “this was realistically the best offer they could get” has been mildly entertaining too

[facothomas22]

As nasty of a contract Bradley Beal got, he was very smart for asking for a no trade clause. This meant that the Wizards before and now the Suns can't just trade him at random. Not only Beal would have to know well in advance, he also has full control over where he gets moved to(assuming anybody is even willing on his with draft picks attached to him). This trades shows that even all NBA level players can be randomly traded without warning.The Lakers did Davis dirty by just moving him at random without asking him. I also wonder how Luka Doncic feel? To me, he seems one of these guy who doesn't care about being on a big market team. All of this was simply dirty business by both the Lakers and Mavericks. Hopefully both of these teams have their comeuppance for what happened last night.

[hauntedcomputer]

The owners will not veto, their valuations and league revenue just went up 5 percent and they steal eyeballs during Super Bowl week.

I would bet you a slightly used Morris twin that gambling and cryptocurrency are behind this. Fools in here thinking this is basketball-related haven't noticed the technofascist takeover of all that used to be holy.

[sashaturiaf]

Unironically yes. Silver has a responsibility to save the mavs fans from the single most incompetent move any GM has ever made

If Silver steps in, I'd be somewhat pissed only that he didn't also veto the Gobert and KAT trades that were insanely stupid moves by Minny.

I actually think SILVER IS BEHIND THIS..
He was aware and approved it, as Lakers got their next Witt..Magic..Shaque..Kobe..LBJ..so the business in Hollywood valley and NBA revenues can increase.
On the other hand after the Mavs revenue in Dallas bottom rockets because of this, new Mavs owners will get green light to move the franchise to Vegas

Potentially huge win-win for NBA, Lakers, Vegas, and New Mavs Owners.
Loss for everybody else.

Hope NBA fans in USA will stop paying for tickets and streams becuase of this **** and NBA will lose even more..

Occums razor. When something smells fishy, usually there's fish

[DaGawd]

What I find it crazy about this out of nowhere superstar trades is how come the discussions start. I mean, If I was a GM, I would never guess Luka would be attainable (other than some crazy haul like billions of picks plus a star), so I wouldn't even waste my time asking about it.

the mavs approached the lakers allegedly which is crazy in itself

[CallMeKahn]

The owners will not veto, their valuations and league revenue just went up 5 percent and they steal eyeballs during Super Bowl week.

I would bet you a slightly used Morris twin that gambling and cryptocurrency are behind this. Fools in here thinking this is basketball-related haven't noticed the technofascist takeover of all that used to be holy.

The owners couldn't veto the trade. The only person who practically could is Silver, and he has no reason to veto a LukAngeles brand windfall for the league.

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[jokeboy86]

A few thoughts:

1. We may not see Cuban at another Mavs home game for awhile because I'm sure he's enraged and beyond pissed right now. He would've never done this if he still had some type of control and I have a feeling he found out about it like everybody else because he probably would've advised the Mavs FO to not do this if they asked him or he got word about it. How fast this moved suggest they didn't want Cuban to hear about it before it happened for fear that he privately or even publicly would've panned it.

2. Lakers had to make this trade when Dallas approached them. Lebron isn't getting any younger and anybody with a brain(well maybe not DAL lol) could clearly see that AD being the best player on your franchise is not leading you to a title. This gives Buss/Pelinka an easy alley-oop because post-Lebron was looking very very ugly for the Lakers.

3. As great as Luka is it wouldn't surprise me if Kidd and management were beyond annoyed that he simply never comes into the season in shape. Yes this usually doesn't matter because he always rounds into form as the season goes on but as is the case with Embiid, I'm sure there were people wondering why on earth can't he use the off-season to come into the season always ready to go ala Jordan, Kobe, Lebron, Giannis and even guys like Malone and Duncan as older players. And it wouldn't surprise me if the Mavs FO feel(like Embiid's critics do) that if he took better care of his body it would help him recover faster. There probably was some frustration with how long he's taken to come back from the calf injury and maybe Mavs FO was thinking that Luka's habits may not get better. Ironically enough this may motivate Luka in the same way that Shaq literally got in the best shape of his life when the Lakers traded him to the Heat.

4. 345million/69 million a year is a lot of money. And I'm sure as the numbers increase as time goes on that there are going to be some front offices who say if they're giving this amount of money they want a player to be as committed as possible to being the absolute best athlete they can be and they get their money's worth as a franchise. Even though that extension was only going to be 5 years, again maybe the Mavs saw something to think that Luka was always going to coast because he's so naturally gifted. Luka is the modern Shaq in that he's so damn elite already there's really nothing to work on of his game or even conditioning.

5. Is Lebron retiring sooner than we think(next year). Yes the Mavs came to the Lakers with this trade but obviously Lakers FO knew that by doing this trade they've abandoned the season cause Lebron and Luka at this point in their careers don't fit. They clearly didn't run this by Lebron(or Rich Paul) at all which means they shockingly are actually looking towards the future post-Lebron. So did they get a sense that Lebron may actually be retiring soon and they didn't want to be blindsided not knowing exactly when it'll happen and scramble to keep the team relevant on the fly.

6. Does Lebron ask to be traded? What are the ramificaitons of what this trade does between the relationship of Lebron & Rich Paul and the Lakers? Paul specifically wanted AD on the Lakers and Lebron wanted to play with AD. Have the Lakers run the risk of basically torpedoing this relationship with Paul and also Lebron not wanting to waste the last years of his career really not contending for a title(not like he seriously was with AD)?

7. This is a win now move for Dallas although putting your faith in two injury prone players in Kyrie/AD is as asinine as what the 76ers are doing or what the Clippers did. Dallas (like Minnesota) also must have thought last year's Finals run was a fluke and a perfect storm and weren't confident that they could replicate that this year(or later) with the current iteration of the West because there's no other reason you make a herky jerky move like this and Luka hasn't even come back from injury. Don't think this is some massive conspiracy either because even with his injury issues let's not act like AD is chump change and this is highway robbery by the Lakers. When healthy he's still probably one of the 15 best players in the game and the way Mavericks are currently constructed if(a big if) him and Irving can stay healthy they could probably do as much damage as Luka/Kyrie duo was going to do in the playoffs this year. People talk about Luka possibly being motivated now, AD could have a chip on his shoulder now and want to prove that he can do it w/o Lebron and be the unquestioned main guy(we'll see).

[facothomas22]

Now far as the value of the trade is concerned, I just don't see for the Mavericks. Anthony Davis and future 1st round pick that may or may not have a lot of value simply does not move me. Luka Doncic is like 25 years and has a lot more playing time left behind him compared to AD and is also the better overall player when healthy.The only about this trade that could be justified is if they believe that Luka Doncic will never be healthy again. Other than that, this trade makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and basically screams a team that has given up on winning a championship and is preparing for another rebuild in 2-4 years.

[duppyy]

Mavericks should be relegated to gleauge for this stupid trade.

[Sofia]

Imagine being Rob Pelinka and getting a call from Nico Harrison asking if he wants Luka. He must have thought Christmas came early.

Probably cut the call early cos he thought he was getting pranked

Harrison trying to offer the trade while Pelinka is blowing a whistle into the receiver and shouting abuse

[Tomhomes33]

I conclude its this simple:

New Mavs owners want to move franchise to Vegas.
But how to move if it generates revenue in Dallas..if it is successful.
The team just came out of NBA finals as well as West finals 2yrs ago.
Need to make franchise less valuable and disrupt revenues. To do that trade your best piece for nothing:)
(well almost nothing, do it in a way you can cover your real intentions)

On the other hand NBA has problems with revenue and the team that generates it most is Lakers.
Lakers always had a superstar, but LBJ will retire soon and they have nobody on the roster to replace him

So Silver knows that Lakers , not other franchise must find their next superstar asap.

And thats why this trade happens now and as it stands.

All other BS is just to cover it up and to feed the media.

[prophet_of_rage]

Luka must have wanted out. There is no other plausible explanation to why Dallas would move him for AD or even move him in the first place. Clearly Dallas still wants to win with Kyrie so they got him AD instead of rebuilding. What a gut blow to Mavs fans, this is truly terrible news.

The Mavs hated his rehab.

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[Mr.Raptorsingh]

Is this like trading Babe Ruth?