HALLELUKA: Luka Clinches All-NBA 1st team. 4th in 5 years

[SleepingHero]

So Luka gets a mysterious non contact injury in the last game of the year, 2 minutes before he was scheduled to sit out the rest of the night. Now the headlines read: "Mavs vs Jazz Game 1: Will Luka Play?" 

Hmm.... sounds a little fishy, especially given what we know about Kidd's mind games. My conspiracy theory is there is no injury. Kidd is F'ing with Utah and Luka will be a "game time decision"

From The Ringer in their article last year "The Fire that Fueled Giannis":

Kidd was known for playing mind games.

His coaching style with the Nets, and then with the Bucks, was described as “psychological warfare” by one former player. 

“Jedi mind tricks,” Oppenheimer says

“Mind fucks,” says one former teammate, a bit more bluntly.

What in the world would the advantage be by having Luka be a game time decision? The game plan to shut Luka down would be effective against any other of our guards since they'd be trying to replicate his performance through the system in the playoffs. Jazz are going to prepare as if Luka is there because there is no disadvantage in doing it. 

If this is a Kidd mind game then he has a single digit IQ.