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
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Klay, probably one of the most impacted players or one of the few that, understanding the robbery, spoke: Luka to LA is like Bron to Miami
I was watching ESPN today (first time in a long time) and they were legit acting like this might be a good thing for Dallas, how Luka is kinda fat, and it could improve their chances blah blah blah. I just felt like I was being gaslight by an entire sports network, like wtf are they talking about LMAO.
Dallas got robbed and Pelinka might be a sith lord with the mind tricks he pulled on Nico. There is no fucking way the Mavs get to the finals this year or any time in the near future, 0.
The NBA should win an emmy for best drama lmao. That joke about it being a soap opera for men really is true.
more drama than in WWE
The only reason that would make sense to me is that Luka is such a diva or an asshole behind the scenes that the organization wanted to get rid of him asap. But it still doesn’t make any sense to let him go for AD and 1 FRP when most of the contending teams would gladly give so much more for him.
Kyrie was a known asshole and diva, and the Mavs had no problem trading for him. The only way this makes sense is if tomorrow we find out Luka was point shaving.
What a weird way to find out Luka has a drug addiction. (That’s the only way this make sense. )
Why the fuck would they do that
not everyone in the NBA is smart.
Surprised the NBA didn’t veto this one like they did with CP3 and the Lakers
I think we’ll never see a veto again
Officially the biggest post in /c/NBA history — thanks Nico!
Worst trade in professional sports since Babe Ruth went to the Yankees 🤯
It really is lol like the justification is that Luka has conditioning issues and is injured so instead of going to any other team they just go to the lakers and trade for an older more injury prone AD and 1 pick lol
It feels like the Mavs didn’t even explore the market. If you trade away 25 year old generational talent (even little bit overweight) the return should be more than that. Weird af trade.
Nico just really wanted AD. it’s silly. poor guy is going to be ridiculed for generations.
Exactly this
DHop trade was still worse
Red Sox couldn’t afford Babe so they traded him away. Mavs didn’t want to pay Luka supermax so they traded him away.
AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS??
Here to join the chorus that the Mavs are idiots
No idea why the Mavs do this, was Luka unhappy?
This had to have been fixed by the league. There’s absolutely NOTHING in this for the Mavs. Horrible, horrible trade!
don’t forget “the league” is the owners, why would the other 28 owners be okay with fixing such a closed transaction with no chance at Luka themselves? it’s not fixed, sometimes people just do dumb shit.
Like the nets got 5 firsts for bridges, the jazz got 5 for Gobert, how is this the best you got for Luka? NO ONE KNEW HE WAS EVEN AVAILABLE
Everything I’m seeing right now is saying he didn’t ask out either, I’m not even a Mavs fan and it feels like a gut punch lol
This feels like a league trade for ratings. How else can you explain it? This is such an incredibly lopsided trade. With the league ratings having been down for so long, they had to do something to get their prime markets back. Next up, Giannis to the Knicks for the NY pizza rat and a carton of milk from the nearest bodega.
I feel so bad for you, my condolences.
That’s exactly what I was thinking as a Knicks fan, like we gave 5 firsts for Mikal and it only takes ONE for fucking Doncic??? He’s a 25 year old walking triple double, perennial MVP candidate.
And of course it had to be the Lakers who get another franchise player for the next decade basically for free. Fuck sake.
I mean AD is worth a few firsts as well but yes it is still an underpay for what they could have gotten in a bidding war.
What??! Nothing?? AD is not of the top 75 players in league history, as per NBA!! (I’ll keep writing when I’ll stop laughing)
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.
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.
It’s the 4th largest metro area, so extremely silly.
The food better in LA
On a day where Trump seems to have caused trillion dollars worth of damage Nico seemed to have one upped him. Bravo
Citing discipline issues related to his fitness and weight management
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This is so fucking insane!!!
lol the fat fuck is going to LA like all the conspiracy theorists said!!! OMG
Like even if he wanted out and would only resign with the Lakers how do you not get a better return?
Some team would still trade good pieces for him in hope of hanging up a banner and convincing him to stay. The Raptors tried to give Kawhi Stockholm Syndrome.
Lakers robbed Dallas. Silver twisted Cuban’s arms to do this.
Didn’t Cuban sell recently or did I imagine that?
Must have some blackmail on him then since this is the worst trade I’ve seen in my life
From what I remember he sold but, was still running the team. And only sold because he was guaranteed full control of the team after the sale.
I could definitely be wrong though so do fact check me.
He sold the majority of his stake a couple years ago but it seems like he is still involved to some extent
