Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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Kidd has been telling Luka for years to stop complaining to the refs.  He still complains.

Mavs have been telling Luka for years to take his conditioning seriously.  He still gets 20lbs overweight DURING the season.  Even more in the offseason.  Notorious for smoking and drinking.

Rest of the team preparing for the season.  Luka is in Slovenia on vacation.  Rest of the team on the road.  Luka is with his group instead of being with the team.

Now he's started to get injuries.  I believe this is his 4th calf injury on the same leg in the last three years.

He's so good that I understand not wanting to give up on him, but I can also see why the Mavs were getting tired of his shit.  You don't just wake up one day and decide to trade Luka Doncic.

Sure i agree. But there are dozen of other trade the Mavs should have done. Over AD. That is pretty much the real problem here. Like Zach Lowe has said. He pretty much nailed everything in his video on twitter.



First of all the timing is off. They could have played out the season. And moved him in the summer. If they miss the playoffs, the miss the playoffs. Doesn't really matter that much. They have the 25 pick. Might move up in the lottery and get Flagg anyway.

scenario 1: play out the season: if you make the playoffs, anything is possible. if not you get a lottery pick. you know you are going to move Luka, move him for the 1st pick in the draft (Cooper Flagg) and more assets.

Could have probably fleeced the Magic. They need a PG anyway. Get half of the Magic team with cornerstone Franz. They wont ever move Banchero, who is looking like a problem. Not a single season with a positive on/off.

Franz Wagner pretty much had advanced stats as high as Giannis/Tatum. Some even better. Before the injury. When the Magic were doing better. 

Right now he is 1 spot ahead of AD in EPM while being 8 years younger. That is your Paul George/SGA trade gamble. For 90 % of the season he was sitting right under Luka at age 23. +12 on/off. SGA is currently at +14.8.

This is Luka on/off the last 4 years

2025: +10.3
2024: +10.1
2023: +5.5
2022:  -0.3
 
Might be german and a little be biased. But he is pretty much the recarnation of Dirk/Kobe in terms of work ethic/character. Totally different player. But if you hate everything about Luka from that sterms from his off court problems. Mavs fans would love Franz. And if you get picks on top, you can make more trades. Getting Goga allows to move Gafford. Da Silva is a good looking two way wing who is pretty much a top 5 rookie this year.

People would still be shocked i guess on trading Luka in general. But i could totally see a scenario where you win that trade. And i wouldn't be overly shocked if Franz ends up having a more successful career than Luka. Especially if he fixes his jumper. That looked fine before the injury. Already won 1 world cup. Franz and Wemby will be a tough outing. But germany also have some upcoming talent the next 5 years. USA going to be careful. Franz/Germany will give them a lot of more trouble i assume.




If you want defense. There you go. Kawhi won DPOY in 2014/2015 & 2015/2016. He also plays the "same position/wing" as Luka i guess.