Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[KillerLeft]

I agree that winning a championship is the ultimate goal, but I don't know if it would make the trade worth it. 

For instance, if OKC traded SGA for Durant and won a championship would that be worth it? Would it be a good trade?

Personally I would say that would be a case of a trade happening to work out but still wouldn't be a good trade.

It's an interesting thought experiment. 

Your SGA/Durant thing is a good, extreme example, but even then, we all have a built-in bias that SGA is going to win a championship with OKC at some point. And, we really don't KNOW that. In your scenario, we'd NEVER know that, but it would sure feel to OKC fans that they were trading away tons of chances at it.

I think the difference here is that there's a plausible reality in which Luka would never have won a championship here, and some of us have had that sneaky feeling for a while. Is the club giving up on him confirmation that the feeling was fair, or is the club giving up on him "Stockholm syndroming" us into forgetting how great Luka really is? I have oscillated back and forth for the past two weeks, but what's clear is that for some, Luka winning multiple championships here seems to have been a "when" more than an "if." Those are the people struggling the most with this, I think.