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Originally Posted by rhigh2390
What would the framework for a Gianni's trade to LA look like? I don't see how they could.
Also, no matter how you look at it, the Luka trade was all-time bad. People keep trying to convince themselves otherwise, but it was horrible for Dallas.
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The trade they made was all-time bad. How they went about it was true malpractice. But I do think it’s possible we’ll look back and think that Nico was right about Luka. I do not think he’ll age well, and it will be very challenging to build a roster around him in the short term. Easier to do in LA than Dallas for sure, but Luka might be the type of player that would have benefitted from being the final piece rather than the 1st piece (ie multiple high lottery picks being drafted by a team before they took Luka).
Dallas had practically no way to upgrade their roster around Luka. He was good enough to keep them out of the high lottery, but his deficiencies were hard to cover up without young cost controlled pieces that you find in the high lottery. LAL have FA draw, but many of the same issues persist imo. Maybe I’m wrong and they’ll beat OKC and SA regularly in the next decade, but I just don’t see it.