Trying to understand why ppl think this about Luka, he's great undeniable talent, he also was a nightmare teammate during the playoffs. He wasn't going to win DAL. If he wins in LA, that was his wake up call. But dude is less committed to being a pro than his was his first few season, ie Embiid
I'm gonna believe my lyin eyes, I guess. What finals was I watching then with Luka throwing games long tantrums and playing 0 D? Did that not happen? Also in the WCF too? Dude is insanely talented but jfc he's a shitty ass teammate.
There are rumors that the new owners want to move the team to Las Vegas, so they're purposefully trying to tank attendance and this was the fastest way. Also they're HUGE Trump Supporters so they don't have very good business sense to begin with either.
Oh yes this true! I remember when he recognized her dumb ass for the contribution! Just some miserable bitch that has nothing else to do with her money!!
We'll probably never know why the Mavericks GM wanted Luka gone but I'm sure Laker fans are loving it. Another legendary player for a legendary franchise. Seems like the best end up in Purple & Gold one day or another.
Which is even funnier because the plan since time immemorial* is for an expansion team to play there (and hopefully Seattle). Their best bet is either to hold part and hope the league lets them move to, like, Nashville or somewhere.
No shit?! Just like those fucking Maloof Bros did Sacramento?! They dumped 2005 WNBA Champion Monarchs and floofed around to get a new arena. Fuck ownership oligarchs!
Tax the rich, then eat them, I say.
Luka lazy fat ass is not worthy of being a Laker! Kobe LeBron Shaq legendary players! Luka proves the fact “white men can’t jump” Basketball is a street sport that these white boys would get their wigs split! Stop trying to make this physically inferior (in every way) superstars! Not gonna happen!!
My conspiracy theory brain still cannot wrap my head around the Luka trade being a good faith decision by Dallas. Even without evidence the trade is so insane I’m still like thinking 🤨
If you listened to Candace before game started. She down played it when she said if Luka and Jason didn’t get along. That’s one reason 2nd Luka is never healthy when playoffs comes ankle problems knee problems. 3rd commenters said during game Kyrie would have to pass the ball to Luka. Out of shape
Tell me one boy “25” that is out of shape and with ankle knee problems
Luka doesn’t even look 25 more in his 30. Listen to the different stories about Luka with Dallas in off season
Somebody always links something
Haven't you heard, Ben? He's fat and lazy. Because apparently that means more than averaging 34/10/9, while dragging your team to the Finals with your teeth.
hmm...they hired a sneaker sports marketing guy with no GM organizational experience -- and gave him the keys to the entire kingdom. And I'm an ex-Nike guy myself...but there has to be some experience in the actual job, right?
i read somewhere that Mariam Adelson is doing a "Major League" to try to get Texas to legalize casino gambling and Dallas to buy them a new arena or to move the team to I don't know maybe Vegas?
My prediction is they were thinking of extorting the city of Dallas to allow them to build their gambling strip, or else they'll move the team to Vegas. Blowing up the team just makes it easier. The Adelson family with their gambling empire and mega trump donations are as crooked as they come.
Their whacko GM figured that because Luka didn't want to be a fitness model as well as a top 3 talent he must not be worth the investment. He probably called Joe Rogan for advice right before doing some Jack And The Beanstalk kinda trading.
When you see how they eat the orange turd's poop, nobody, I'm sure, ever thought that buttkissing is so deep, widespread, and so low in this Divided Christian Fascists Shithole of America. You'd think it happens only in countries like Russia, China, and N. Korea.
this country is an empire built on slavery, Hitler literally studied the Jim Crow south when devising his schemes. The US exterminated millions of native people. There is nothing that other countries have done that we didn't do worse
lol did you hear Kidd say “he’s one of the best players in the world”
Then why the fuck did y’all trade him???
Especially for the tiny package you got
Dumbass street clothes over there in his clown suit
You folks need some TikTok in your lives: Mavs fans there break it down, ownership is mad cuz Texas won’t let them have a casino there so they want to tank the team and move to Vegas…
Nico Harrison is all in on the Mamba Mentality propaganda. If you’re not living, breathing basketball round the clock, apparently you don’t have ‘greatness’ or aren’t ’adding to the culture’.
I fully buy into the Adelsons realize that Texas won't allow gambling so they're tanking the franchise for a move to Vegas and or just don't to pay anymore conspiracy theory. Only thing that makes sense.
He wasn't sufficiently obsequious to ownership + trusted his own process for getting/staying in shape, instead of marginal return "grinding" and showing up 3 hours early for practice or whatever.
The Mavs made a bad trade, but the Mavericks roster, when healthy, would not be terrible. They probably beat the Lakers the other night if they have AD available. Now, they don't have him, which makes the trade look even worse. Luka was 6-17 in that game - I'm not ready to crown that dude yet.
Im totally convinced the NBA is dirty. Nico took a back room deal to get Luka to the Lakers. He will be fired, Mavs will fall back into the doldrums. Nico will go back to selling shoes and counting his money.
It's not that. It's the Mavs owners are new and dumb. Just because someone has money doesn't mean they are smart. The one owner has a hard on for Davis too. It's not a conspiracy, it's just dumb people doing dumb things.
I really want to believe that so much. The NBA saw Brunson and Luka in a “football city”, and they thought they could make sooo much more with them in basketball cities. One of Nico’s first moves was not keeping Brunson. Reinvigorated the knicks. Now LA will be relevant post-LeBron.
As a Laker fan, I get it. The Daniel Stern era was corrupt AF. Yet, if you dig a bit it's just rich guys who don't want to spend money on max deals and have personal relationships with players. Cuban would never have done this deal.
I hope you’re right. I really do. I could find a way to live with that eventually. I mean, the mavs are dead to me, but I think I could eventually support the lakers for my boy. But right now I have NBA impotence. Just nothing there
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he was in the finals man
don’t shit on the man’s accomplishments with your pop psychology
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/mavs-owner-miriam-adelson-planning-donate-100-million-trump-presidential-campaign/287-64d29bb2-dcaf-4435-8b62-94b8713cebb9
Has no one seen those posters of Kemp dunking in that badass uniform?
Tax the rich, then eat them, I say.
"Slightly chunky? - You mean like Magic Johnson?"
Luka doesn’t even look 25 more in his 30. Listen to the different stories about Luka with Dallas in off season
Somebody always links something
Nico + Kidd are a fucking joke.
Fire them immediately.
I’ve seen enough.
A Dallas fan should sue them like the guy who sued the Black Sox. I’m not kidding.
Great players have forced bad trades, but why would you do this of your own free will???
You can insult this country without running your mouth about places you literally only know what the CIA wants you to know about
Mao Zedong was pretty fucked.
Then why the fuck did y’all trade him???
Especially for the tiny package you got
Dumbass street clothes over there in his clown suit
https://youtu.be/o6YAkjdX5EM?si=yBHK1a7cHG7zY-gl
This was unacceptable.
even watched them since Luca left.