Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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Absolutely. Harrison (and common sense dictates others, too, such as Kidd, Dumont, etc) have decided that a supermaxed Luka is the wrong way to go. Period. This was their attempt to get off of that road.

Given that he opted to put the gas pedal to the floor, plowed through a neighborhood worth of fences, and slammed into a tree to get off that road, I'm not so sure common sense should be used in the same sentence as Nico Harrison.  You'll also never convince me that Kidd was onboard for this trade.   You can think a pile of late round FRPs isn't worth much, but you only returned one and that could just as easily be a late round pick as well.  You can say that Christie is the type of player the Mavs prefer that doesn't mean that the likes of Reeves and Knecht couldn't be used to bring back more assets either by expanding this trade or in future trades.  Nico operated like a desperate team with little understanding of the value of the asset he traded.  If only he'd have spoken with more than two teams about the trade, his eyes would have been opened to the value of that asset or maybe that's giving him too much credit.  

He dug a hole with future assets to build a team around Luka.  That's fine and what needed to be done.  And anyone would do the same knowing that if they wanted out of the Luka Doncic business, they could use Luka to refill that hole and then some.  I doubt many GMs would want out of the Luka Doncic business as no one with Luka's resume and at his age have been traded so unceremoniously and I'm 100% sure that if they had, no one would have accepted that package.  Nico treated Luka like a depreciated asset because of his disdain for the player and then got played by his pal from the Lakers.  Thankfully this will be his last GM gig but unfortunately it came at the expense of our franchise.