Eurobasket 2017 was really enjoyable, my team finally beat France in order to advance to the quarterfinals, and Slovenia won as huge underdogs. Goran Dragic was their MVP, Anthony Randolph the glue guy, and they've had a young phenomenon on their roster, who was already being touted the most talented Euro of all time. He was pretty good and hit some crazy shots, albeit looked like a milkface, in Dirk's immortal words...
As I was sure that he'd be picked at #1 or #2, I didn't follow his subsequent European exploits closely, since there was no way the Mavs would be in position to draft him. I mean, right?
Fast forward to draft night, where the Mavs owned the fifth pick and surely would choose some solid guy like Mo Bamba or the generic under-sized guard, which they always seemed to love.
All off a sudden, they put Woj's tweet on the ESPN-broadcast: "The Atlanta Hawks have agreed to a trade on principle with the Dallas Maveri..."
BAAANG!
Didn't even have to read the full tweet, I immediately realized that we were getting Luka. The rest was a solid minute of fist-bumping the air and trying not to wake my neighbors, hehe...
As I was sure that he'd be picked at #1 or #2, I didn't follow his subsequent European exploits closely, since there was no way the Mavs would be in position to draft him. I mean, right?
Fast forward to draft night, where the Mavs owned the fifth pick and surely would choose some solid guy like Mo Bamba or the generic under-sized guard, which they always seemed to love.
All off a sudden, they put Woj's tweet on the ESPN-broadcast: "The Atlanta Hawks have agreed to a trade on principle with the Dallas Maveri..."
BAAANG!
Didn't even have to read the full tweet, I immediately realized that we were getting Luka. The rest was a solid minute of fist-bumping the air and trying not to wake my neighbors, hehe...