Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[mvossman]

HoosierDaddy posted this in a different thread. Outside of the confusing first paragraph, it's a pretty good summation of many of the events that followed this trade, but the reason I'm re-posting here is the video from the Draymond Green podcast towards the end:

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Ar...on-course/

He's basically saying what we've been circling around here for a while. The 2nd Apron kind of IS a hard cap. I realize most here would've Super Max'd Luka without hesitation and then sold off anything/everything else to get under (because you'd have fairly quickly realized your team MUST get under), but I think basically what we learned here is that the Mavs decision makers didn't think they'd be able to build a good team that way. 

Draymond says in the clip that we might start seeing more and more trades like this. I wonder how true that is. Kind of hard to predict, when it comes to those top, top guys. Are some of them worth the super max? Maybe. Will some of them be willing to take less than the super max? Maybe. 

Sucks that this happened to us in Dallas first. I think we were all so jazzed that Luka's first six years went well enough to qualify for the super max so young that we kind of forgot to worry about this. I've been focused on selling off good pieces (starting with Gafford) for expiring contracts and picks to get rookie contracts because I just ASSUMED Luka's super max was a done deal, but maybe this possibility should've been on our radar, in hindsight.

Seems like with the new restrictive CBA the supermax concept is broken.