Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[F Gump]

The goal is to win championships, but its not just to win them today, its to win them tomorrow as well.  Its a balance.  A move to slightly increase your chances in the near term (which I don't think is happening here) but tanking a legit chance for the next several years is not a good trade off.  

Also, winning a championship is not a guarantee of all things forgiven.  If Nico sends out every young player we care about for KD and the team somehow stays healthy enough at the right time to actually win a championship, I would consider it a very hollow victory.  Especially if the team spends then next serval years being terrible with no hope on the horizon while Luka wins one with a team that had less talent, less fit with Luka and less assets than the Mavericks at the time of the trade.

That's a lot of assumptive "if's" that negative things are sure to happen, while positive things would have been sure to happen on the road not taken.

Yes we can and should stop and declare Nico a dolt for the negotiating itself, because it was awful work.

But in particular let's see how Luka does in winning a title. His road ahead to claiming rings has MANY huge question marks, maybe even more than the Mavs.