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

i am sick of teams helping the lakers including us we should have cut in and offered john collins and 3x 1sts for doncic apparently lakers looking at mo bamba and we waived him he would be a better back up centre than potter this team is so dumb
 
Meh, the league knew they couldn't go too many more years without a Laker's championship, and they needed to bolster LeBron to send him off a champion. I would not be surprised to find out LeBron demanded an improvement and the league facilitated. This is good for all the billionaires as they all share in the TV take, and a better Lakers team leads to better viewership and bigger contracts down the road. Would not be surprised if all the teams agreed to this and they are providing Dallas with compensation behind the scenes. Won't be surprised to see them suddenly fall to somewhere between 10-14 and end up with a top 3 pick magically. I am just surprised it was so blatant a power play from the league to the Lakers. I guess they are done pretending and hiding this **** now. With someone like Trump in office who doesn't even try to pretend he cares about the constitution and the rule of law, it emboldened the other billionaires to follow suit.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Meh, the league knew they couldn't go too many more years without a Laker's championship, and they needed to bolster LeBron to send him off a champion. I would not be surprised to find out LeBron demanded an improvement and the league facilitated. This is good for all the billionaires as they all share in the TV take, and a better Lakers team leads to better viewership and bigger contracts down the road. Would not be surprised if all the teams agreed to this and they are providing Dallas with compensation behind the scenes. Won't be surprised to see them suddenly fall to somewhere between 10-14 and end up with a top 3 pick magically. I am just surprised it was so blatant a power play from the league to the Lakers. I guess they are done pretending and hiding this **** now. With someone like Trump in office who doesn't even try to pretend he cares about the constitution and the rule of law, it emboldened the other billionaires to follow suit.
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Ehh, if it was league mandated, the Mavs would have gotten a better return.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Ehh, if it was league mandated, the Mavs would have gotten a better return.
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Why? And we cannot see what is going on behind the scenes. What they got plus a guarantee of a top 3 pick this year is a pretty decent haul. Plus cash considerations, or who knows what?
 
LogGrad98 said:
Why? And we cannot see what is going on behind the scenes. What they got plus a guarantee of a top 3 pick this year is a pretty decent haul. Plus cash considerations, or who knows what?
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Because the league would want to make it seem more fair. The kind of trade Nico pulled off can only be explained as incompetence mixed with an owner demand.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Because the league would want to make it seem more fair. The kind of trade Nico pulled off can only be explained as incompetence mixed with an owner demand.
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The more I hear the more I think it was an owner thing and Nico is falling on the sword hard (as part of his job). I almost wonder if Luka said something that offended the ownership group and created a riff. Hurting a billionaires feelings can lead to irrational ****. I think its part of the reason the security are removing all the "fire Nico" fans. Its their way of supporting the "good soldier".
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Because the league would want to make it seem more fair. The kind of trade Nico pulled off can only be explained as incompetence mixed with an owner demand.
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That was the point of my post, if you read it. I was pointing out that the league is emboldened to make these moves without worrying about such things as "fairness", just enough to not fully spit in the face of the fans familiar with the rules of the trades, so the "values" just have to barely fit the requirements, no semblance of fairness no longer required. Just doing what they want to.
 
Ferguson_Mellochill said:
It sounds as though the Mavericks really wanted to move Luka, and it's not just a conspiracy to support the TV deals by sending him to LA.


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If they went after Ant who's definitely NOT on Kyrie's timeline, why not just go for the traditional rebuild package like young players + picks? With Luka they are almost guarantee to have a shot at acquiring any great young talent maybe with the exception of Wemby. And IMO twolves is absolutely foolish to not take Luka for Ant. Ant's absolute ceiling might not be as good as the player that Luka is right now.

But I think this source isn't true cuz Nico said he only spoke with the Lakers and if the Bucks & wolves knew they were shopping Luka, it's unlikely for them to keep the whole thing a secret for this long.
 
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