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- cross-posted to:
- lakers
The Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, per Shams
Edit: Full trade:
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Lakers: Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, Markieff Morris
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Mavericks: Anthony Davis, Max Christie, 2029 LAL 1st
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Jazz: Jalen Hood-Schifino, 2025 Clippers 2nd, 2025 Mavericks 2nd”
Edit: need stern do come back and veto this for “basketball reasons” Mavs GM deserves to get fired for this one
I mean, there is no other possible explanation right? I’m a life long Lakers fan and this makes no sense.
They didn’t get much back either.
I think if they were the same age you could argue defense blah blah blah. But they’re not lol.
Christie and what will probably be a late first round pick? Like you guys don’t want nothing else? Is this a prank lol? Ok
But he’s a free agent after next season. If they wait until next season to trade him on an expiring, they will get nothing back like Raptors got nothing for Siakam.
No dude, just no.
Luca is a 25y perennial MVP candidate and hasn’t even peaked probably. I’m pretty sure every team in the league would be in a bidding war if they knew he was available, even next year.
exactly, mostly because of bird rights. if you trade for the guy you can resign him even if you are over the 2nd apron.
on the other hand if he goes to free agency only teams $50m UNDER the salary cap can sign him, which is very few teams.
See my comment below. There must be a good reason Mavs would’ve done this. They knew something. Like Luka was going to sign with Lakers. Lakers had clear their cap space to give Luka a max in 2026. That is the ONLY logic to this move - they are doing this NOW to get something back instead of losing him for nothing, or getting nothing for an expiring Luka because everyone knows Luka isn’t signing with anyone but Lakers. THAT is the ONLY rational thing that makes sense out of this. If Luka was happily going to go where they want to trade him, the market for him would be huge. But if Luka comes out and says I ain’t signing with anyone but Lakers, market’s dead, gone, caput done.
the explanation is Hanlon’s razor. some people are incompetent.
From most of the reporting I’ve heard you’re right. But this is like historic levels of incompetence, which makes it really hard to believe.
many Mavs fans at reddit are saying that new ownership wanted to sabotage the team, making it easier then to relocate the team to Vegas.
they are going to make a new team in Vegas, the league isn’t abandoning the 9th biggest city in the country. That’s just silly.
Maybe ownership had financial concerns, but it has nothing to do with relocation.
It’s the 4th largest metro area, so extremely silly.
Not just that, but the Adelsons lobby HEAVILY to legalize casino gambling in Texas. Even more, they don’t even own casinos in Vegas anymore… only Macau.