Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[hakeemfaan]

Ha.  I think we are all looking for the whys.  So far the reporting seems to suggest this was a Nico led move.   I think there may be more to the story.   Why does Nico care if Luka gets the super max or not.  I mean you can make the case, he has much more value after that.   Time will tell.

I floated the idea that the move was a directive from the ownership.   I had no proof.   Just someone in finance who was said to have a business relationship with a Clipper minority owner.   This guy was told that this came from Rick Welts who had no idea what he was walking into.  I said it at the time, it is probably fan fantasy.   It was just what someone told me though.

This was not in response to your post. Seeing much more lately on X.  Wonder if it’s Nico’ PR firm or folks trying to rationalize something that logically doesn’t make sense. 

I agree though that just using Nico as the main reason is giving a pass to Dumont. Both of them failed miserably.  The thing that makes it so difficult is that it has never happened and will never happen again where a generational player in his prime, coming off a Finals run, having expressed no desire to move on, having no off the court scandal,  will be shipped for pennies on the dollar.  It will never happen again because it doesn’t make any sense.  Yet it happened to us.