Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[F Gump]

I can't figure out his injury. I just watched an early season Minnesota-Dallas game where Doncic hurt that calf in the 2nd quarter. It was not a contusion. He didn't hit anybody. He hobbled of the court with help.

Then to my surpise he came right back out the 2nd half and played well.

Very strange.

I'm a fan of Stein's reporting, and usually see it as gold. But I'm very leery of his possible bias in putting out the news of a careful minutes management in a way that makes it sound like Luka has an ongoing impairment. 

Sure, Luka COULD be ailing and still slowed. Or even a bit out of "basketball shape" at this point. 

Certainly LA is going to be careful. Duh. He's valuable. 

But it feels like this is mostly just a common sense approach by LA, but Stein making it into "news" to perhaps serve as some much-needed justification for Mavs FO rash decision to get rid of him. 

So until LA FO or coach tells us that they are holding Luka back in an unusual way, I'm gonna figure it's regular basketball stuff going on.