Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

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Are they? Didn't Stein report that there was no way Mavs were offering him supermax deal? 

This seems like a financially motivated deal first, with winning being second. And that arrangement is significant in sports, if money is the main reason then you aren't doing it for winning.

Would you give a supermax deal to a top 3 defender who gives you absolutely nothing offensively?

I think that is what Nico is thinking if it is about money. Maybe his philosophy is to have a roster full of two way players who can bring g it on both ends than to commit a huge part of the cap to someone who would require several defensive e only players who give almost nothing offensively.

It does make me wonder if the thinking might have been different if Herb Jones would have been healthy and we would have been able to acquire him.