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Dallas trading Luka to the Lakers for Anthony Davis! Utah involved.

Tremendous Upside said:
The more I think about this trade, the more I love it for Dallas. Ballsy move that probably had to be made sooner rather than later.

They gave Luka a million chances. He showed them he can only play an extremely heliocentric brand of basketball, flat out refuses to defend and can’t/won't keep his weight down. In a word, he was unserious. He wasn't going to change. The Mavs simply had enough of his crap.

People keep repeating Luka's "just 25", but he's been in the league for an eternity and has accumulated a huge amount of wear and tear, partly because he's so often playing out of shape. If people think he'll magically turn it around and the rest of his NBA career will look better health-wise than we've seen so far… I don't know what to tell you.

You really see Luka as a healthy, efficient NBA player at 32 or 33? Yeah.

A few years from now, this trade will be seen as a massive win and a tactical triumph for the Mavs. Sometimes you just have to say "No más" when you still can.
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This could all be true, but it is also true that the mavs could have got many more assets for him.
 
Holy hell. I go away for a couple of weeks and THIS happens. I'm not sure what's worse, this or Phoenix and Sacramento passing over Doncic for Ayton and Bagley. In each case, GMs (or owners) were too clever for their own good, passing over the obvious best choice, posing as galaxy-brained contrarians. Dallas managed to convert one of the greatest gifts in NBA draft history into one of the worst trades in NBA history. And right on cue, Davis is out with an injury. So predictable, so dumb.
 
Schrödinger's Gerbil said:
Holy hell. I go away for a couple of weeks and THIS happens. I'm not sure what's worse, this or Phoenix and Sacramento passing over Doncic for Ayton and Bagley. In each case, GMs (or owners) were too clever for their own good, passing over the obvious best choice, posing as galaxy-brained contrarians. Dallas managed to convert one of the greatest gifts in NBA draft history into one of the worst trades in NBA history. And right on cue, Davis is out with an injury. So predictable, so dumb.
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I'm still completely puzzled by it. Can anyone think of a worse deal in all professional sports?
 
Rubashov said:
I'm still completely puzzled by it. Can anyone think of a worse deal in all professional sports?
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Austria's football team qualified for the 1938 World Cup but were forced to withdraw after Hitler's Anschluss and the subsequent disbanding of the team. That's the only thing I can think of that comes close.
 
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