Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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Five time All NBA First. He did it for years while on a rookie scale contract when guys like. Barnes, Matthews, DeAndre or Porzingis made $15-30M while playing horrendous basketball. 

You can criticize him all you want for his conditioning but that’s nitpicking at best.

Luka raised the bar from day 1y. Just like Dirk he was the safety net that kept everything from collapsing every time the front office had one of their great plans blow up right in front of their faces. 

Brunson
Porzingis-trade
Kemba picking Boston over us
DeAndre being trash here

There is no room for error now anymore.

I get that. However, those were all mistakes that happened under the previous regime. Nico has made some good moves for the most part. Obviously the jury is still out on Luka. I personally wouldn't have traded him. But, unfortunately, we won't know if it was the right move or not for a few years.

I think Brunson had already made up his mind that he was leaving before Nico was hired. Mark and Donnie had burned that bridge.