"If the one side that offered more than just crumbs, it would be a fairer trade." I mean, of course? That's pretty obvious? It's not that AD is a bad player, but just imagine trading any iteration of 2016-2018 James Harden for 2025 AD. Or a "first stint, fresh off getting swept by the Spurs in the Finals" 25 year old LeBron for 2025 AD. Because that's what this is. Luka even just took them to the Finals!! You don't trade a generational superstar unless he wants out or unless another generational superstar is in the overall return. And Dallas gave Doncic up for pennies on the dollar AND sets up the poverty franchise of *checks notes* the Los Angeles Lakers. Great.
no, they could’ve got a young superstar that is as good as AD or will be for longer and draft picks They might’ve been able to get Chet or banquero plus other players and draft picks Will never know because they traded a generational talent without checking with anyone. There’s no way that is a real life event
I understand that you guys say that you would shop him more etc ... but if you put him up for auction , then maybe more and more teams start asking questions . Sure , you may get an awesome offer . But if teams think that hes going to be a rental ( like hes for sure going to LA ) ... then maybe the offers arent as strong. Dal clearly didnt want picks DAL may be right that AD gives them a better chance this year and next year
I didn’t say the Mavericks should have made this trade. If they wanted to move Doncic, they should have shopped him around and started a bidding war. They could have gotten Jalen Williams or Chet Holmgren and a ton of picks from the Thunder or Amen Thompson, Alperen Sengun and picks from the Rockets. Darius Garland and Evan Mobley or Jarrett Allen and picks from Cleveland, etc. All I’m pushing back against is the narrative that the Mavericks got less for Doncic than the Jazz did for Gobert or the Nets did for Bridges. That is not true.
I'm going to laugh if they get Flagg, and then years laters when he's eligible for the rookie max extension or whatever, trade him to some team for their aging defensive-minded big.
No we aren’t. Davis is an aging big that is often injured. He has shown that he can’t carry a team anywhere. Trading a 25 year old top 5 player who is also box office is beyond idiotic, on and off the court. And a white one too….cmon man.
Is there anything that can stop collusion? If the Mavs only offered Luka to one team and took pennies in return, how is that fair and good for the league? **** Nico Harrison and I’m not a Mavs fan.
It was in a Sam Amick article on The Athletic. Excerpt follows : The Mavericks were greatly concerned with Dončić’s durability — or lack thereof — and convinced his approach to the game would continue to be a problem in the years to come. Yet while there was no shortage of teams shocked that the Mavericks didn’t broadcast their willingness to move Dončić, league sources say there was at least one team besides the Lakers that was approached by Dallas nearly two weeks ago about the prospect of swapping Dončić for another star. That bid was turned down, but the message sent in the process had been clear: There was trouble brewing in Dallas. And the Lakers, in the end, were the ones who reaped the benefits.
If they were looking for a elite defensive big man, the only options would have been Gobert with Minn, Mobley/Allen with Cavs, Giannis with Milwaukee, or Chet with OKC.
Yeah, this is what I was thinking. All these people saying "throw more draft picks at them" probably weren't in the game. Not unless they could also throw a defensive big at them. Assuming you can believe what Nico says, anyway.
Two things can be true at once. This trade was dumb for the Mavericks to make because you don’t trade 25-year-old MVP-caliber players and come out ahead, and the Mavericks did get more return for Doncic than the Jazz did for Gobert and the Nets did for Bridges when you factor how many picks a team would trade for a top-10 player in Anthony Davis.
The difference between fat young Doncic and broke old Davis is not 1 FRP. Not in any universe. No amount of spin will cover this bone headed move. Sounds like existing relationships, poor negotiating skills and a fixation on one player culminated in this disaster. Not extracting more is completely negligent.
Chet is always hurt and they apparently didn’t want Banchero over AD. They got the player they wanted and the deal they wanted. They didn’t want to rebuild and they wanted someone that played both ends at a high level. It isn’t a deal I would have made but I understand what they have made their focus and why.
Dam! Dallas was like don't talk about it, be about it. Nothing but crickets coming out of Sacramento and Miami all day.
