Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[The Jom]

I am not even saying it was a giant conspiracy. I am just not buying that if the franchises were reversed , Silver would  not have done something to at least potentially delay the deal till he could find some way to block it. 

That’s why I referenced the overarching rule they used in the Sterling case and then later settled out of court. Not just us, but most fans and writers acknowledge this was an unprecedented deal. Trading a 25 year old generational star coming off a Finals run for a much older, lesser talented and injury prone player.   The bigger thing is that Silver had to know how it would affect the entire fan base of the Mavs. This move was as good as a team saying they wanted to move in the middle of a night to another city. Surely Silver knew what this meant even if Rick Welts and Nico and Dumont allegedly didn’t. 

Would Silver have been able to stop this trade? I don’t know. All I am saying is that IMO he would have tried much harder to block this if the recipient was not the Lakers or the Knicks, given the historic and unprecedented fallout this would have on an entire city and its fan base

I meant to identify the two extremes, not say that anybody here had taken either extreme position. Sorry it came across that way.