I am still waiting on these better, attainable options. Who are they?
Luka Doncic traded to Lakers for Anthony Davis (Shams) He might be hacked?? IDK* ITS REAL DAMMIT
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AD is not a bum but he is a bum in this case. The value is just extremely awful. As a Hawk fan, I would tell you, I'll trade you a lot of 1sts unprotected for AD but I wouldn't trade Trae. I want Trae with AD for it to make sense. This doesn't make sense. AD is a guy you add to the guy. Luka is the guy at an ELITE level. If I wouldn't trade you Trae for AD, I damn sure wouldn't trade you Luka or Jokic for him. That's just insane. Luka is not tradable. I wouldn't trade him for NOBODY outside of Wemby. Just Wemby. That's it!
AD just ain't that guy. The NBA likely forced this trade due to the new TV deal and them needing money and the Lakers print money. Always have but even their fans know 40 year old Bron means no title this year and no future. They had to get the future in LA. What makes matters worse is, usually you would expect two to three pick swaps. three 1sts unprotected but just 1 1st unprotected. ROBBERY!
Yeah if they got one of them, I think people could live with only getting one draft pick back
Black Excellence
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Obviously Luka but the messaging about them wanting to set the tone with defense sounds to me that this trade was also a culture setting one.
The next five years of going after players that play defense as well as offense is a different representation for a franchise vs the next five years you have an incredible offensive player but you’re handicapped on one side of the ball because of him and the contracts you already have tied up. It’s a huge risk of course but they didn’t want to pay Luka the money so fukk it.
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Getting one pick and not even getting dalton or reaves is worthy of an fbi investigation.
Spurs have 9 tradable firsts. If it's announced that Luka is on the market, Castle and Vassell would be packing their bags
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The thing is that if the Mavericks wanted to improve defensively to better their championship aspirations, the goal should've been keeping Luka and bringing in pieces to accommodate him and Kyrie, not trading the cornerstone franchise player just to get better defensively; that doesn't make any sense.
This was an idiotic subtraction-by-addition move.
It kinda makes it seem like they valued Kyrie more than Luka, which is crazy; sure, Kyrie is still playing great, but even then, he's not the reason why you made it to the finals or had a championship window, he's apart of it but not the defacto reason.
The fuked-up part is that the Mavs are acting like the return to the finals is a sure thing for them when they're dayum near dropping in the standings halfway out of Play-In contention. They better hope they even make the Postseason at this rate and hope Irving and AD don't catch a bad break from the injury gods cause if one, or worse, both of them, go down for an extended time...shyt.
This was an idiotic subtraction-by-addition move.
It kinda makes it seem like they valued Kyrie more than Luka, which is crazy; sure, Kyrie is still playing great, but even then, he's not the reason why you made it to the finals or had a championship window, he's apart of it but not the defacto reason.
The fuked-up part is that the Mavs are acting like the return to the finals is a sure thing for them when they're dayum near dropping in the standings halfway out of Play-In contention. They better hope they even make the Postseason at this rate and hope Irving and AD don't catch a bad break from the injury gods cause if one, or worse, both of them, go down for an extended time...shyt.
I wouldn't have given you Trae for AD. The best I've would have given you for AD is 3 1sts, two pick swaps, Capela, and Bogi. I wouldn't give you Risacher, Daniels, JJ, or Trae and if I gave you JJ. I wouldn't give you no more than 1 unprotected 1st, max. That's for AD to Atlanta.
If you would have told me what it would cost to get Luka for the Hawks. Everything!
That's the difference in value. This was the NBA doing what it has to do to appease their media sponsors.
Everyone is on the table for Luka. Whatever Luka is okay to playing with is what we are keeping. What ain't is going to Dallas.
It seems to me their main return they wanted was AD. A big man and an elite defender, that can also score 30 and get 12 boards a game. I don't think they was getting that anywhere else, so let's say they press harder for Reaves or Knecht, and the Lakers decline. Where else they going to get that realistically to top getting someone like AD that fits exactly what they're looking for?
Could they have gotten a better trade in terms of assets? Absolutely. But could they have gotten a better return in terms of assets that allow them to also win now? I don't think so. That's the thing. If they were just looking for the best deal in terms of draft picks and young stars, sure, they could've done better. But it seems they are focused on contending for a title now. And I'm not sure what other realistic trade is out there better than can provide that.
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Hard to make a definitive stance when only one team got a chance to put their chips on the table. There’s certainly multiple teams with a deeper chest of long term assets than the Lakers
verbaltelekinesis
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Trade literally sucked the life out of their franchise yet they expect Street Clothes who's a nightly injury risk and couldn't get the Pelicans to the Playoff every year to turn this into a contender.
And Coli contrarians are actually defending this dumb shyt.
As soon as you said street clothes you lose credibility. Have you watched Anthony Davis the last 2 years? Not only has been durable, but he's been playing at an all nba level on BOTH ends of the floor.
I understand problems with the trade as it pertains to Luka's age, but somehow trying to play AD like he's not a.legit top 5 big man is INSANE!
They didn't even try to see what else they could get out there on the open market, so we don't know what they could have gotten in return outside of that Lakers offer.
The Lakers most definitely would have given up Reaves or Knecht if it meant getting Luka in return especially considering the fact they weren't too enamored with AD being the future post Lebron.