Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[michaeltex]

A first round matchup with Luka would be pretty crazy. Although I fear for the results in that case. 

Is it bad that I am not super afraid of OKC? Mavs seem to have had their number with or without Luka. I can’t imagine they’d be excited to face a healthy Davis and hopefully healthy Lively+Gafford.

Honestly few teams can even match that size now thinking about it.

To me, OKC, CLE and maybe MEM are the best "big" teams right now. But DAL should join that group once everybody gets well.

IMO, a lot of people are hating on DAL, even some on this board, because of the way the trade was orchestrated. But if you step back and look at what a healthy DAL team looks like, it would show that there is indeed enough talent to compete for a championship. DAL only had AD on the court for basically half a game and look at the performance. And that was after the team just basically handed AD and Christie a uniform, snapped a few promo pics and played the game.  Imagine what it will be like with more practices under their belt to integrate with team mates.

This team's entire front court has been gutted for both starters and backups, yet they have remained competitive (apart from last Sunday's GSW game), in every contest when a lot of teams would just have folded the tents and waited on the lottery show. As the injury list gets shorter, more quality players become available and the ability to compete with anyone will become apparent to all the haters.