NBA Thread: Thunder V2: Electric Boogaloo

Defense wins championships fr

 

It’s fun to pretend with recency bias everything that just happened is the craziest thing ever but a lazy fat guy who plays no defense whose teammates dont like and isn’t as good as anthony Davis getting traded isn’t crazy but he’s white so the russilos of the world will freak the fuck out.

 

You lost me with he's not as good as Anthony Davis, agree with everything else in your description of Luka. The fact he's this good while being fat and lazy is what makes him so scary.

 

That’s fair. I still think he’s overvalued.

 

Siap

 

So then he's what, only the fifth best player in the league in your estimation?

 

good thing the lakers didnt give up too much for this overvalued asset then

 

Sixth with the emergence of Tari Eason’s midrange game.

 

Distracting from the Terry Rozier illegal gambling game fixing federal investigation.

 

Sadly I woke up

 

Or he flat out today them he wasn’t going to resign and they chose to overreact and trade him at the worst possible time, with no effort to find other suitors.

 

I wish the Cowboys could trade Dak

 

For Josh Allen is the equivalent of this trade

 

Schefter jumping in the middle of the night with a terrible comparison was nice to catch up on

 

I can read the subtext here. Where does this rank in comparison to Giannis signing his extension and Lillard getting traded to Milwaukee for terrible days in recent Miami Heat history

 

No amount of content is enough

 

#Dallas Mavericks won the trade. Luka was gone after this season.

 

He was under contract next season so unless he's going back to Europe, don't think you're right there

 

He wasnt gonna give up on the $345 million

sadly due to the Adelsons, he will never get that

 

Thread: Dallas definitely won the trade

Immediate logic: competing suitors would drive the price for Luka up

 

damn

 

Told my six year old who is obsessed with basketball about the trade this morning. He immediately ran downstairs and turns on 2k25 to see if they are on their new teams. They weren’t showing up yet so he said “they must be in the locker room getting their new jerseys still”

About 30 minutes later he runs upstairs screaming “DAD LUKA IS ON THE LAKERS!!”

 

I'm listening and Bill just put Tatum in a tier with Jokic, Giannis, Luka and SGA above everyone else. The pod is now ruined for me.

 

I think he had Tatum higher than Giannis in his trade value rankings

 

I can kind of see the argument for that based on age, durability and skill level. I think it's at least a conversation.

But he yelled at everyone last year in the playoffs for being too critical of Tatum for expecting him to play better because they were expecting too much from someone who wasn't on that tier. And now he's just in that tier and we're just supposed to accept it.

 

I know we’re all disappointed

myself included

 

Celemo we will always have this

 

Still not as bad as the Paul George trade

 

That Lakers front office leaks like crazy, no way they keep this under wraps.

 

I actually can see them keeping it under wraps because if it got out it would have caused a bidding war + fan pushback that would have killed their chances of getting Luka.

 

Cj stroud for Dak Prescott

 

So many weird things about this trade, but the one that is currently hitting me is that Davis is a top 5-8 player in the league right now and people are talking about him like he's Pascal Siakam because trading Luka at 25 makes that little sense under any scenario.

Also, I don't understand why he waived his trade kicker for the Mavs. What's in that for him?

 

Does Cuban have any power in decisions anymore?

 

he’s led them to two nba wcf appearances, including one last year. What are we doing here?

 

It makes no sense they didn’t leak to Windy or Stein or someone that they were going to auction off Luka. Mikal Bridges got like 5 1s. San Antonio got more for Dejounte Murray

 

How do you only get one first out of that?? I mean my god, what a terrible trade.