Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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I'm a fan of Stein's reporting, and usually see it as gold. But I'm very leery of his possible bias in putting out the news of a careful minutes management in a way that makes it sound like Luka has an ongoing impairment. 

Sure, Luka COULD be ailing and still slowed. Or even a bit out of "basketball shape" at this point. 

Certainly LA is going to be careful. Duh. He's valuable. 

But it feels like this is mostly just a common sense approach by LA, but Stein making it into "news" to perhaps serve as some much-needed justification for Mavs FO rash decision to get rid of him. 

So until LA FO or coach tells us that they are holding Luka back in an unusual way, I'm gonna figure it's regular basketball stuff going on.

I'm sure there is some getting him back into basketball shape. If what they say is true and that he is healed now it was probably a grade 2 strain. Supposedly, 4-8 weeks recovery. My big concern with him is the 3rd calf strain in 4 years on the same calf. And they get more severe each time.