Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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At least Maxi, Dorian and Luka can play together again.

After getting flooded with texts from friends and laughing in disbelief, if there is justice in the world the trade should be vetoed by the league for GM/Ownership malpractice.  That will not happen of course.  And all the blunders of the post championship Mavs by Donnie, Mark, and whoever else was given the wheel on draft night pale in comparison to this.  I'm not even the biggest Luka fan.  When you have so much God given talent, it's hard to for a lot of athletes to develop the drive and hunger it takes to get yourself in world class shape and squeeze every drop out of that God given ability.  I hated his crying and his "approach" to defense.  God knows it is hard to build a championship roster in the modern NBA when you have to constantly try to hide a player on defense.  But by all accounts the dude wanted to be here (something the Dallas Mavericks should never take for granted) and he's absolutely stunned to have been traded.  And I can almost understand trading him, but given how most trades have gone down for starts, let alone superstars, the return we received is unforgiveable.  Unless there is something really wrong with him medically, there is no reasonable explanation for taking nickels on the dollar of his value especially considering the hole we've dug in future assets to assemble a team around him.  How they didn't extract more players, picks, and swaps is just mindboggling.

Well said. 

You tell me Luka isn’t a pro, you don’t think he’s going to reach his potential and you think giving him that super max again for another 5 is a mistake? Fine, I can get there, and have had some of those thoughts, myself. 

But, you have to get a lifeline to the next era if you’re going to do this. The team’s assets are still “in the Luka era”…AND THEY DON’T HAVE LUKA. 

This looks like they literally thought they’d have a better team moving forward building around Kyrie and AD. I can’t even wrap my head around that at the moment. This might be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen!