Harrison: Hey Rob, this is Nico. Pelinka: What's up. Harrison: I want to trade Luka for AD and a couple of picks. Are you interested? Pelinka (covering the phone and giggling): Let me think about it.... Uh, it's kind of too steep. How about AD and just one pick? Harrison: Deal!
This all but guarantees the Mavericks will be getting a #1 Overall pick to the next hyped prospect for gifting lebron and the lakers a future MVP player they can build around. “Hey NO trade CP3 to the Lakers and youll get the #1 overall pick” (clippers are still in LA so NO held their end of the deal) “Hey Minnesota trade Kevin love to us and you’ll get the #1 overall pick, but this time we win the the lottery to avoid suspicion “Hey Pelicans trade us AD and you’ll get the #1 pick in the lottery” I’m sure is just coincidence that the team that trades their star player to Lebron or LA ends up winning the lottery.
Yeah. I guess this is Adam Silver's plan to save NBA's viewership. Stone might get the memo, so he signed Alp and Green so they couldn't be traded.
Even if Dallas has good reason to get rid of Doncic, it still doesn't make sense that they didn't shop around for the best deal they could get.
i think the league gave us cam because they wanted wemby in SA. you can't tell me Cam fell all the way to us is legitimate. that lottery was shady.
Reaction from CBS Sports. Here’s their grade: Lakers: A+ There's no other way to look at this. Factoring in both age and production, the Lakers just scored what is probably the most coveted basketball player in the world not named Victor Wembanyama. Doncic is only 25 years old. To land a player this good and this young in a trade is absolute bonkers. You honestly might never see a score again like this in your lifetime. It almost doesn't even matter how Luka and LeBron will pair together or whether they'll have any chance to holding up defensively (probably not), because for the Lakers, the short-term implications of this deal aren't nearly as important as what this does for them long-term, assuming they lock up Doncic on a max deal as soon as humanly possible. The Lakers have been trying to figure out their post-LeBron plan for some time now. They have held firm to their future first-round draft picks knowing they couldn't empty their cupboard as LeBron ages out, which is bound to happen, right? Well, Luka Doncic pretty much takes care of that concern, and to think, they didn't even have to give up both their trade-eligible picks to get him. They could still go out and make even more moves before Thursday's deadline. This is truly unbelievable. I don't know whether Rob Pelinka is the luckiest or smartest man alive, but the Lakers are celebrating tonight. Mavericks: F So here's the weird thing: I truly believe the Mavericks are better positioned to win a championship with Anthony Davis, assuming full postseason health, than they are with Luka Doncic... today. Right now. And yet they still get an F because you just can't trade Luka Doncic, not unless your hand is forced. Upon first hearing the news, that was my only rational explanation for the deal. The Mavericks had to have been forced by Doncic behind closed doors. He must've told them he wanted out, and they didn't want to wait until next season when word would get out and they would lose leverage. Through that lens, I went on CBS Sports HQ and initially gave the Mavericks a C-, because I'm all for being proactive with these things rather than winding up like the Heat with Jimmy Butler or the 76ers with James Harden or the Pelicans with Davis and having to do everything on the players' terms. But according to Marc Stein, Doncic "did not request a trade" and the Mavericks "did this on their own accord." (CBS goes on at some length in a disjointed and ultimately failed attempt, in my opinion, to justify what Dallas management and ownership did, then give up) More at cbssports.com
well i think this year this is probably better for dallas. Kyrie and AD is a better combo. For the future. This is stupid. Luke in LA with Lebron. Their D just took a complete dump. Holy crap.
I wake up to this joke... of a league. Honestly... how the f did Silver allow this trade? Might as well shrink the league now and admit the money isn't there. If I'm the Rockets, u push hard to get Kyrie here...
