Simply two days in the past, it appeared like Luka Doncic was one of many few untouchable gamers within the NBA.
Now, he’s heading to the Los Angeles Lakers in a surprising flip of occasions.
Not even folks across the league noticed this one coming.
When requested about that, ESPN insider Brian Windhorst claimed that his cellphone was blowing up with coaches and gamers in disbelief, with some going so far as to say that the Mavs should completely hate Doncic (through SportsCenter).
“I had a present NBA All-Star textual content me and say, ‘Are you aware how a lot the Mavericks should hate Luka?’”
–@WindhorstESPN on how the league is reacting to the Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis commerce pic.twitter.com/Z1afOJQm17
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) February 2, 2025
As Windhorst identified, even when the Mavs thought Doncic wouldn’t signal his supermax contract extension, they nonetheless had one other yr to barter a commerce with him.
Per his report, they didn’t even public sale him.
They contacted the Lakers in ‘stealth mode’ to inquire a couple of commerce, which means they didn’t even take a look at the market or gauge presents for his companies.
Merely put, that signifies that they didn’t need something to do with him anymore.
Believing you’re not going to have the ability to win along with your 25-year-old famous person who had simply taken your group to the NBA Finals is odd, to say the least.
Former Mavs proprietor Mark Cuban as soon as stated that he would select Doncic over his beloved spouse, however the present brass clearly doesn’t really feel the identical approach.
They acquired a participant who’s six years older and has confronted harm issues prior to now, and so they simply obtained a first-round decide for one of many consensus greatest gamers in basketball, so there should be extra to this story.
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