04-15-2025, 02:13 AM
(04-15-2025, 01:34 AM)Knutsen Wrote: It‘s the perfect combination of probably the league‘s biggest international star and the league‘s most popular franchise globally. In the US it might be close in popularity, but internationally it’s clearly the Lakers followed by the Knicks and no other team comes close. Because it’s not just about basketball, but California dreaming - and Big Apple dreaming, so to say. So I guess Luka will continue to stay at the top the next seasons.
Pelinka saw it just after the trade, they united the biggest marketing asset outside USA with the most popular NBA team.
It was a marketing move even more than a basketball move and they paid pennies for Luka.
Collusion.