02-02-2025, 12:24 PM
(02-02-2025, 12:15 PM)michaeltex Wrote: How was there such a loss of faith that Nico would even consider trading Luka?
Even if Nico is the one getting hung in effigy, there had to be a consensus among the management/coaches/trainers that this made sense. Going to be a lot of spin put on this decision, so figuring out what actually happened may take a while.
You keep focusing on that one thing. Luka has his warts and even for a generational alpha, I didn’t think of him as untouchable.
Yes Nico might have been told by management to make a move. At that point the best GMs first try to convince this new raw ownership why that is not a good idea. Did he do that? I don’t know.
The next thing is put it out there also that all teams and owners fall over themselves trying to give you the best long term haul. That I know didn’t happen. In a league where even the smallest things are magically leaked, Luka being on the open market would have immediately got out. Nico apparently honed in on one or two teams. The team had already mortgaged a lot of their future assets to build around Luka. Nico got nothing back to offset any of it. He did not get a young stud back. M9bley, Wagner. Heck I would even take Scottie Barnes over AD. This is not a knock on AD or on Christie. The GM fumbled the bag real bad here.