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The Worst Trade in NBA History: Luka traded for AD


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8 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Cross posting here because it fills in some details the board hasn’t fully addressed. This totally makes sense now, especially “why Lakers?” It’s a bribe for the nba to step aside  
 

https://x.com/loewylawfirm/status/1886211634097746331?s=46&t=1xhM83oX4_0pVKdmxhpexA

That's straight out of Major League

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11 hours ago, aggie08 said:

I understand the sentiment, but this tweet is stupid dumb. Everyone in Dallas would be saying, "Luka who?" if they're up 3-1 in this year's Finals.

...it's just not going to happen.

I wouldn't.  Every Mav fan I know agrees with the sentiment.  

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11 hours ago, Chad said:

Kawhi : 2x Finals MVP

3x First team all NBA, 3x Second team all NBA

2x defensive player of the year, 3x defensive 1st team, 4x defensive 2nd team.

Luka : 0 Finals MVP

5x First team all NBA

1x NBA scoring champ

It all depends on how you value a player. Luka is an offensive juggernaut with zero defensive skills. I'd personally say Luka is a better player who showed flashes at a younger age, but Kawhi was also elite in a sense for a lengthy stretch.

 

10 hours ago, Chad said:

Just repaying the favor for all the shit Mavs fans talked after the Spurs were forced to unload Kawhi. Now y'all are gonna be wandering the NBA wastelands for the foreseeable future. The Mavs will be good enough for a couple one and dones before returning to where they were the first year of Luka and several years before his arrival.

I went to a Spurs playoff game (don’t remember against who) during Tim Duncan’s prime. The team was great. Best coach in the league. 

After the game, riding down the escalators was like being at an A&M football game during the wrecking crew era- less about their own team and more about Dallas this and Mark Cuban that because the Mavs were out of the playoffs but in the news that day. I was shocked by how insecure they were.
 

This is the worst moment in the 45 year history of a fan base that really loves our team, doesn’t care about national media or bandwagons, and doesn’t really care much about yours other than as an regional rival and admiring the success you had during your best years. And you’re in here bitching about what? 

Fuck right off, Chad. 

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8 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

LOL.  I mean.... immensely.  Dude is special on one side of the court, but he's a "generationally" bad defensive player.  He also is very difficult to win with because of his style play as he was a ball stopper.  Other teams have tried with these type of players and failed (Harden, Barkley, Westbrook, Iverson), especially the ones who weren't very good at defense too. 

These are all great points if you completely ignore the reality of what Luka and the Mavericks have done the past few seasons. 

He’s a bad defender, but he’s not generationally bad, that’s dumb. He has actually been a useful piece on a good NBA defense, last fucking season. After making the trades for Gafford and PJ they were one of the best defenses in the league by every metric down the stretch. You just need the right pieces around him, he’s not an unsolvable liability on that end. 

I don’t even want to argue the offensive side of it, mainly because arguing whether Luka’s offensive game is winning basketball or not is weapons grade stupid. 

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