Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[cow]

The kicker to me is that they had really built the perfect team around Luka - if they just would have waited for him to come back from injury...

To build that team around Luka, they had to leverage their future.  That's fine as that is what you should do with a superstar and if that superstar eventually wants out, you can refill your cupboard by trading him.  Nico failed to do that and Luka didn't even want out.  Nico's "hold my beer, Jerry" moment in a nutshell.