Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[SleepingHero]

As others have said, if Luka wanted to return, if I were Masai, I wouldn't just sign him - I would sit down with him and ask him if he's willing 1) to defer to Cooper *more* than he did to the self-proclaimed GOAT, 2) to learn to captain a ball-movement style, 3) to play some defense, and 4) to see a sports psychologist and view ref-barking as a life-management-wrecking addiction that he simply must overcome. If the answer to any of those is no, 2 and 4 most of all, then he would not be welcome back, in my book. If he answers yes to all, then I don't care a whit about the not showing up in shape stuff - he's absolutely welcome back.

1) Luka deferred plenty to Kyrie while he was here, I don't see why we're even questioning if he'd defer to Cooper. 

2) He's played a ball movement style before when he was younger, but why would we not use arguably a top 3 offensive player of all time to the max? Why would we not want him to set up wide open looks for Coop? He rarely makes a poor choice with the ball, and we've seen when he's paired with good players we go to the finals. 

3) the defensive thing as always is over blown. He's not a great defender, he more than makes up for it in every other aspect on the court.

4) the ref barking thing is incredibly annoying but i've given up on Luka making that change. he's a passionate player that takes out his anger on the thing he thinks is causing him to not win. More than often its the refs. But we've seen him bark at players, fans, opposing coaches, opposing teams, and even children. That is who Luka is.

Again, it seems like there is collective amnesia here over just how good Luka Doncic was/is. We would be lucky if he returned.