Also I have a very important NBA update: I still cannot believe Luka Doncic is on the Lakers. Like, literally. I feel like I'm hallucinating every time I watch them play.
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The craziest thing is the Mavs questioned his durability, traded for AD and AD basically got injured instantly...like almost anyone could have predicted.
But now for the first time in my life I want to see the Lakers win.
As a Mavs fan I will always feel the same. It still makes no sense and will make even less sense on Tuesday when Luka likely shreds the Mavs and further increases the Lakers lead in the standings...
all unthinkable 5 months ago when the Mavs improved a roster that was coming off a finals run
What's this with moving Schroeder around like this. He's been with three teams in the last year. Nets, Golden State now I believe Pistons or Hawks. They have Luka there with the Lakers to take over for when LeBron leaves/retire. Anthony Davis stays hurt too much for me.
I started watching 1970s, 80s, and 90s NBA games on YouTube. I'll probably never watch another modern NBA game ever again. Too much expansion, watered-down talent, and lack of team play. Today's NBA features one guy dribbling while four others watch him.
Yeah that killed it for me. Always will be a Luka fan but I’m pretty done with the NBA now. The league has so many issues, the trade was the nail in the coffin. I’ll get my basketball fix with the NBL here at home. Might checkout the NHL, haven’t followed that since the Forsberg Avalanche. Fire Nico
I'm an AP stringer. The last Bulls game I covered had me sitting next to a Lithuanian or Latvian scout that saw Luka when he was a teen. Even he was dumbfounded.
That’s cute. You honestly think Lebron doesn’t defend because he cruises through games in the regular season. Cool. You never watch playoff basketball.
Almost like the Lakers and the Mavs were playing on two different channels, and the tv merged them somehow. That was my first thought. I mean...sure I was on mushrooms, but let's not get bogged down in the technicalities
Be honest. Hasn’t LA forever tempted the greats to leave their teams behind and come out there? Similar to any good player for Kansas City As ending up on the Yankees?
I still cannot believe Bobby Portis is suspended for 25 games for accidentally taking a non-controlled unapproved pain killer when domestic abusers only get 30 games.
The drug Portis took (tramadol) is a *known* performance enhancing opiate drug. His excuse is laughable - the old "somebody accidentally gave it to me" for an elbow injury for *last fall*. Come on now...
ive felt this way since lebron. when sports start feeling like parodies of itself i think its ok to remember: they think of it as a product bc it is. you wouldnt feel any kind of way about choosing a new peanut butter. so its time to catch up emotionally to the reality.
If Jokic signs firstly no clue how that would be possible that seems like a pipe dream. But if so, you got a three peat and new dynasty. Plus keep Lebron around for another few years.
Then they do that bs “oh we fear for our safety cuz of mad fans”
Fuck you, we hate y’all and are mad but instead I choose to not follow the Mavs ever again and I might be done with the NBA after this.
Mikal Bridges got FIVE PICKS
HOW THE FUCK DOES LUKA ONLY GET ONE??
Again even if you want to trade him cause you think you can do better (😂😂) you should at least make the trade an auction instead of a seedy closed deal with ONLY ONE TEAM???
They said Luka might not re-sign. Tell us @zachlowenba.bsky.social how many players have ever turned down the super max??
Trading Luka before he could sing fucked over Luka which in turn will make other superstars not care 2 come here, & U lose huge value down road in trading Luka if you wanted 2
So all of the sudden Niko has become dumb on how to do trades??
ONE 1st RD pick for a guy who statistically is only in the categories with Wilt, MJ and The Big O??? No he didn’t suddenly get bad at trades. This is an orchestrated efforts by him and dumbface Patrick Dumont to blow this all up
…so why then did Niko built a roster the last two years around Luka? Why bring in Klay if the dynamic is going to change, same with Quinton Grimes? Those guys played well off of Luka.
Also Luka has taken two different rosters to the West Finals & the NBA finals in three years!!!!
…since being GM, they way he was able to move KP, acquiring Kyrie & making it work here too.
5. After awhile we hear conflicting stories about how this has gone down.
Apparently Niko & fake Rob Lowe have talked about this move for a long long time, not just all of the sudden this year…
And they see that in TX it’s not going to happen anytime soon, so what’s the play? Either make the franchise shit so the fan base revolts and they can make the ploy to move cause they don’t have the support and the lease is up in 2030 or 2031?
3. Niko had been killing it with trades since…
2. So you trade a generational talent w/o consulting Kidd at all!!!!
Kidd was and I guarantee he’s pissed about this. It’s totally disrespect if this isn’t a long game effort to move the team to Vegas. The ADELSON’S are casino ppl, not basketball ppl, they only care about making casinos in TX
Niko (yes I know that’s not the correct spelling but I don’t care, I hate him and I don’t wish him well in his career ever) didn’t inspire any confidence in that introductory presser as first time NBA GM of the Mavs but again packaged deal with Kidd.
1. Niko had been actually killing it with trades and roster moves since coming to the Mavs as an executive at Nike with ZERO basketball ops background and was a PACKAGE deal with Kidd we were sold. Niko came in w/lots of doubters as an outsider, remember his introductory presser? I do….
How do you think us die hard #MFFLs feel 😞😞
There’s no justification for this trade AT ALL
I genuinely believe when the lease is up at the AAC that the Adelson family is moving this team to Vegas.
If you start taking the same amount of Ketamine as Harrison and Musk, you'll actually be hallucinating, and THEN and only THEN will everything make sense.
It's incredible that both the Mavs and wolves made unbelievably self immolating moves less than 6 months after having their best seasons in decades! The Towns trade is a bit better but anyone could've told you that Towns>Randle. Neither team will sniff the finals for years now
I’m a Mavs fan that is still grieving over the trade. I will be cheering on Luka tonight.
Nico Harrison really messed up & I don’t see the fans ever trusting him again.
#LukaWillAlwaysBeAMav 🩵
Rigged for big markets by the owners. Also, the complete mismanagement and stewarding of the NBA with regards to broadcasting rights and resting players, are also to blame for drop in viewership.
Basketball used to be the sport of the everyman. Now fans are priced out.
Mismanagement and increased ticket prices have nothing to do with whether the game is “rigged”.
And I bet that if the other owners were rigging the league, they wouldn’t have allowed Luka to get shipped to LA in the middle of night without having a chance to bid on him.
Donaghy went to prison for betting on games he ref’d. Then, in an attempt to save himself, he alleged the nba told him to fix games. That claim was never verified.
I wouldn’t call this a “known problem.”
And why would 29 owners, including the Kings, let this happen if they were in on it?
I really love when Mike Breen is like, wow only Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlin have this record and look who is right there at 3, Luka. And I just die a little inside.
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But now for the first time in my life I want to see the Lakers win.
all unthinkable 5 months ago when the Mavs improved a roster that was coming off a finals run
until this year, he played about 68 regular season games a season, and he's only missed 3 playoff games ever
As a Laker hater, I so look forward to them spending 289 million on this future Embiid
And Davis out for the season right after.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37410900/
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛
If Jokic signs there in the near future then I’m convinced this “association” is fixed like WWE
Fuck you, we hate y’all and are mad but instead I choose to not follow the Mavs ever again and I might be done with the NBA after this.
HOW THE FUCK DOES LUKA ONLY GET ONE??
Again even if you want to trade him cause you think you can do better (😂😂) you should at least make the trade an auction instead of a seedy closed deal with ONLY ONE TEAM???
Trading Luka before he could sing fucked over Luka which in turn will make other superstars not care 2 come here, & U lose huge value down road in trading Luka if you wanted 2
ONE 1st RD pick for a guy who statistically is only in the categories with Wilt, MJ and The Big O??? No he didn’t suddenly get bad at trades. This is an orchestrated efforts by him and dumbface Patrick Dumont to blow this all up
Also Luka has taken two different rosters to the West Finals & the NBA finals in three years!!!!
5. After awhile we hear conflicting stories about how this has gone down.
Apparently Niko & fake Rob Lowe have talked about this move for a long long time, not just all of the sudden this year…
3. Niko had been killing it with trades since…
Kidd was and I guarantee he’s pissed about this. It’s totally disrespect if this isn’t a long game effort to move the team to Vegas. The ADELSON’S are casino ppl, not basketball ppl, they only care about making casinos in TX
There’s no justification for this trade AT ALL
I genuinely believe when the lease is up at the AAC that the Adelson family is moving this team to Vegas.
A sweep?
Probably not.
Nico Harrison really messed up & I don’t see the fans ever trusting him again.
#LukaWillAlwaysBeAMav 🩵
Basketball used to be the sport of the everyman. Now fans are priced out.
And I bet that if the other owners were rigging the league, they wouldn’t have allowed Luka to get shipped to LA in the middle of night without having a chance to bid on him.
I wouldn’t call this a “known problem.”
And why would 29 owners, including the Kings, let this happen if they were in on it?