Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[KillerLeft]

How far would Luka have to fall to not be tradeable even on his supermax?  I feel a lot more comfortable betting on Luka than on this team/FO over the next couple of years.

I'm not arguing that. I'm with you in thinking that would have been a safer plan than this. 

But, I get how it might not seem that way from inside the organization, if they've decided that they simply can't build the team they want to build around Luka. "Missing the forrest for the trees" is very much in play here, the question is: What's the forrest and what's the trees? Is the point to build the right team, or is the point to build the right team around Luka? I think you need a top 5 player to win a championship, so naturally, I'm left depressed about the Mavs no-longer having one with no obvious way of getting another, maybe EVER, but for sure not for a good, long while. But, if they are CONVINCED Luka isn't who the fans think he is, and that the rest of his career will go badly, or even just that it would go badly HERE, I can understand the inclination to do something now, I really can. 

What I don't jive with is the idea that you can compete with a team built around Kyrie and AD. I think that's the type of thing you try to do if one of them is an all-time Mavs great, but they're just guys who sat down here in the Mavs chair when the music stopped. All indications are that Harrison believes acquiring Davis will keep the Mavs in contention for the next few years, and that Mavs fans will be happy about that, if it works. I think he's wrong on both counts.