Doncic is 25, what do you mean Jazz arent on that timeline? Of course Ainge would care since they have more assets to trade for Luka than the Lakers. If they knew they could have offered Nico a better asset package than AD, Max Christie and a pick. You are right Pelinka is just lucky but the reason Harrison reached out to him is because of their decades friendship which no other GM has. It is unique to Pelinka. Pelinka is also the one who got AD in the trade prior and AD was the reason Nico wanted to do the trade. Not sure why you think Pelinka didnt deserve credit. If he was the Wolves GM Luka would be a Twolve and the trade would have been for Gobert and Divicenzo instead of AD and Christie. Hell if Pelinka was our GM Luka would be a Rocket by now, maybe for Amen, FVV and picks or w/e. Nico didnt trade Luka to the Lakers, he traded Luka to his lucky buddy Rob Pelinka. If you are the reason the trade happened you deserve credit for it, its that simple. Even if you wanna argue Nico was obsessed with AD and would always trade for him no matter what, well Pelinka was also the one who traded for AD so he still deserves credit.
I want to say Stone was in the top 5 last year as well and moved up a bit this year. He's been excellent, and there can be small arguments about the rankings but that's fair.
