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02-02-2025, 03:11 AM
I'm stunned.
02-02-2025, 11:59 PM
Cuban not being majority owner in the Mavs is how this happened, he would never have traded Luka if he had control.
02-03-2025, 10:14 AM
I have watched 0 seconds of an NBA regular season game in probably 4-5 years. But this sounds downright dumb. Luka was 25 and had been All-NBA five times and carried the team through the playoffs last year. Luka also lost 110 million dollars in the trade as well I believe.
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02-03-2025, 12:20 PM
If Luka Doncic doesn't develop a better work ethic, the Lakers will regret this trade. The greatest ability a professional athlete can have is availability and failure to maintain a healthy weight and peak physical condition results in injuries and poor defensive performance
Dallas has put the Mavs in position to contend for a championship this season because of the trade.
I hope that Doncic treats the trade as a wakeup call. He is one of the most talented players in history and I love watching him play. It would be a shame if he squanders that talent by not taking his conditioning seriously. Fans get tired of watching stars standing on the sidelines because of avoidable injuries.
Dallas has put the Mavs in position to contend for a championship this season because of the trade.
I hope that Doncic treats the trade as a wakeup call. He is one of the most talented players in history and I love watching him play. It would be a shame if he squanders that talent by not taking his conditioning seriously. Fans get tired of watching stars standing on the sidelines because of avoidable injuries.
02-03-2025, 03:29 PM
I keep up with the NBA a little throughout the season. Enough to know what's going on for the most part. Normally don't watch it much until the playoffs start.
I really don't have a favorite NBA team. Just like to follow former UK players around. Although I have kinda taken a little liking to the Celtics, going back to when Pitino was there.
I'm an AD fan. Guess I'll be following Dallas more now.
I really don't have a favorite NBA team. Just like to follow former UK players around. Although I have kinda taken a little liking to the Celtics, going back to when Pitino was there.
I'm an AD fan. Guess I'll be following Dallas more now.
02-04-2025, 10:38 AM
When I first seen the screenshot, I thought Shams X account got hacked, got on X to check and he literally had just broken the news, I was shocked to say the least. With the trade deadline looming, this one wasn't even 10,000 miles on the radar.
In today's NBA, Luka is definitely one of the greatest players in the world, still only 25 years old, but conditioning & injuries have always been issues, and it's been reported that's one of the main reasons this trade happened. He was also up for a super-max deal this off-season, $345 million over 5 years was the expected deal, and maybe Dallas didn't want to be on the hook for that much money and tied to the deal if he was going to continue to be out of shape and injured. Crazy that the Lakers were the only team Dallas even knew that Luka was up for a trade, been all kinds of conspiracies going around about it.
As for AD, he definitely had a great chemistry with Lebron, had a great run with LA with a championship in 2020, but the NBA is a business, to get something back big in return, you have to give up something big as well. Davis has been an All-NBA caliber player his whole career, but not even sure he has been at Luka's level. I do like this trade for Dallas tho, pairing AD up with Kyrie, and the Mavericks didn't have to give up any of their other key role players in this deal.
Funny how far the league has come. It was 15 years ago that then commissioner, the late David Stern, literally vetoed a trade that would've sent Chris Paul to the Lakers, now under commissioner Adam Silver, it's the wild west out there. Just proves that anyone can be moved, and no one would ever know about it.
In today's NBA, Luka is definitely one of the greatest players in the world, still only 25 years old, but conditioning & injuries have always been issues, and it's been reported that's one of the main reasons this trade happened. He was also up for a super-max deal this off-season, $345 million over 5 years was the expected deal, and maybe Dallas didn't want to be on the hook for that much money and tied to the deal if he was going to continue to be out of shape and injured. Crazy that the Lakers were the only team Dallas even knew that Luka was up for a trade, been all kinds of conspiracies going around about it.
As for AD, he definitely had a great chemistry with Lebron, had a great run with LA with a championship in 2020, but the NBA is a business, to get something back big in return, you have to give up something big as well. Davis has been an All-NBA caliber player his whole career, but not even sure he has been at Luka's level. I do like this trade for Dallas tho, pairing AD up with Kyrie, and the Mavericks didn't have to give up any of their other key role players in this deal.
Funny how far the league has come. It was 15 years ago that then commissioner, the late David Stern, literally vetoed a trade that would've sent Chris Paul to the Lakers, now under commissioner Adam Silver, it's the wild west out there. Just proves that anyone can be moved, and no one would ever know about it.
02-11-2025, 02:21 AM
Anthony Davis is expected to be out for roughly one month after an injury and Dirk Nowitzki was in LA to support Luka during his debut tonight.
To literally have the player who is synonymous with your franchise attend a conference rival's game in support of the star you just traded to them is on another level.
Short of Davis being out for the year or suffering a career-ending injury, could things be any worse for the Mavericks?
To literally have the player who is synonymous with your franchise attend a conference rival's game in support of the star you just traded to them is on another level.
Short of Davis being out for the year or suffering a career-ending injury, could things be any worse for the Mavericks?
02-11-2025, 12:05 PM
AD was having a heck of a game for the Mavericks. Maybe helping a few in the Mavericks fanbase relax just a little bit, just a tad. Twenty some points, then he goes down at the end of the 3rd or start of the 4th. The fans that saw a small glimpse of hope, instantly back to doubt.
Injury prone, that's what I was really worried about with AD going to Dallas in this trade, and it took no time. Hopefully AD gets and is able to maintain health. The trade was tough enough, this doesn't help at all.
Dallas fans are already calling for the majority owners to sell the team. The gm is being called upon to resign and receiving death threats.
I kinda feel like AD is unfairly being looked at as a bad guy because of this trade. Hey, there was nothing he could do about it.
Many conspiracy theories out there about this trade. Involving moving the Mavericks to Las Vegas, where the majority owners are from. It's on record, LeBron saying he'd like to own a nba team in Las Vegas one day. That's just one theory and I just barely touched on it. I'd have to type a encyclopedia pretty much to cover everything out there that's being said about this trade lol
Injury prone, that's what I was really worried about with AD going to Dallas in this trade, and it took no time. Hopefully AD gets and is able to maintain health. The trade was tough enough, this doesn't help at all.
Dallas fans are already calling for the majority owners to sell the team. The gm is being called upon to resign and receiving death threats.
I kinda feel like AD is unfairly being looked at as a bad guy because of this trade. Hey, there was nothing he could do about it.
Many conspiracy theories out there about this trade. Involving moving the Mavericks to Las Vegas, where the majority owners are from. It's on record, LeBron saying he'd like to own a nba team in Las Vegas one day. That's just one theory and I just barely touched on it. I'd have to type a encyclopedia pretty much to cover everything out there that's being said about this trade lol
02-11-2025, 09:27 PM
AD is a waste of talent.
Cuban could end up buying this team back at a discount.
Cuban could end up buying this team back at a discount.
02-12-2025, 03:10 AM
(02-11-2025, 12:05 PM)King Kong Wrote: AD was having a heck of a game for the Mavericks. Maybe helping a few in the Mavericks fanbase relax just a little bit, just a tad. Twenty some points, then he goes down at the end of the 3rd or start of the 4th. The fans that saw a small glimpse of hope, instantly back to doubt.
Injury prone, that's what I was really worried about with AD going to Dallas in this trade, and it took no time. Hopefully AD gets and is able to maintain health. The trade was tough enough, this doesn't help at all.
Dallas fans are already calling for the majority owners to sell the team. The gm is being called upon to resign and receiving death threats.
I kinda feel like AD is unfairly being looked at as a bad guy because of this trade. Hey, there was nothing he could do about it.
Many conspiracy theories out there about this trade. Involving moving the Mavericks to Las Vegas, where the majority owners are from. It's on record, LeBron saying he'd like to own a nba team in Las Vegas one day. That's just one theory and I just barely touched on it. I'd have to type a encyclopedia pretty much to cover everything out there that's being said about this trade lol
I'm not saying that I can't see how there'd be a connection between a new owner and a city that they have more ties to which also has a market for a team, but it's kind of out there to see a way that the NBA lets a team walk out of the fourth largest media market in the US and into a city that is in the 40's.
New Orleans, Sacramento, Charlotte, Orlando, Detroit, Portland, Indiana, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Memphis, Utah, and Oklahoma City would all be far ahead of Dallas on the list of NBA franchises that another city would try to poach. Other than teams with more or just as attractive markets and more tradition (read: Lakers, Celtics, Bulls, Knicks), there aren't many franchises where relocation would be a tougher sell.
Know that they don't have the tradition, but in terms of the demographics of their population base and their home attendance over the past decade, the Mavericks have a lot going for them.
02-12-2025, 01:24 PM
(02-12-2025, 03:10 AM)Cactus Jack Wrote:Yeah, I don't think moving the Mavericks to Vegas would be a good move. Especially with Dallas having the 4th largest market. I did like it better when Cuban was majority owner. LeBron might have to team with Tom Brady, if he wants ownership of a team in Vegas, the Raiders lol(02-11-2025, 12:05 PM)King Kong Wrote: AD was having a heck of a game for the Mavericks. Maybe helping a few in the Mavericks fanbase relax just a little bit, just a tad. Twenty some points, then he goes down at the end of the 3rd or start of the 4th. The fans that saw a small glimpse of hope, instantly back to doubt.
Injury prone, that's what I was really worried about with AD going to Dallas in this trade, and it took no time. Hopefully AD gets and is able to maintain health. The trade was tough enough, this doesn't help at all.
Dallas fans are already calling for the majority owners to sell the team. The gm is being called upon to resign and receiving death threats.
I kinda feel like AD is unfairly being looked at as a bad guy because of this trade. Hey, there was nothing he could do about it.
Many conspiracy theories out there about this trade. Involving moving the Mavericks to Las Vegas, where the majority owners are from. It's on record, LeBron saying he'd like to own a nba team in Las Vegas one day. That's just one theory and I just barely touched on it. I'd have to type a encyclopedia pretty much to cover everything out there that's being said about this trade lol
I'm not saying that I can't see how there'd be a connection between a new owner and a city that they have more ties to which also has a market for a team, but it's kind of out there to see a way that the NBA lets a team walk out of the fourth largest media market in the US and into a city that is in the 40's.
New Orleans, Sacramento, Charlotte, Orlando, Detroit, Portland, Indiana, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Memphis, Utah, and Oklahoma City would all be far ahead of Dallas on the list of NBA franchises that another city would try to poach. Other than teams with more or just as attractive markets and more tradition (read: Lakers, Celtics, Bulls, Knicks), there aren't many franchises where relocation would be a tougher sell.
Know that they don't have the tradition, but in terms of the demographics of their population base and their home attendance over the past decade, the Mavericks have a lot going for them.
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