Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[hakeemfaan]

I never tried to justify the luka trade or to exonerate Nico the cocksucker, what I want to do is appreciate the good youngster the trade brought and give him the admiration and support he deserves. luka when healthy and fit is one of the best players to have ever played this game, and I do wish him the best even though he's no longer a mav. moving to LA and playing with Bron for a few years will only turn out to be good for his career in the long run imho. Christie was a second round pick while luka was drafted no.3 overall so it's safe to say luka has a much higher starting point, Christie may not be as talented but it doesn't deny him the chance to be a great player given his work ethic imho.

You mentioned the anger towards Nico will lessen as Christie keeps improving. That won’t happen for me or for a lot of fans.  As others have said, Nico has lost the trust of fans by showing how terrible a negotiator he is. Trade Luka or not can be argued back and forth, but there is no debate to me in even trying to remotely justify the haul that came back. 

I said after that first day of anger subsided, that I realized I can never support another team. I will always support players who are playing for us fans of their team. I will not betray the team like Nico and Dumont betrayed the fans. 

At the same time, Nico has to go for any real healing to begin. 

Dumont is another story. The cherry on the cake would be the Adelsons selling the team but I wished for a long time for Cuban to sell and look what I got.  It would at least start accelerating the healing more with Dumont firing Nico and saying he was fed bad info by Nico and apologizing to the fans