Several “furious” NBA teams that the Lakers had the exclusivity on Luka Donnicic

Several “furious” NBA teams that the Lakers had the exclusivity on Luka Donnicic


According to Tim Macmahon from ESPN, which proposed very complete content on the underside of the transfer of Luka Doncic to Los Angeles, many executives of franchises everywhere in the NBA are furious and even jealous that the Mavericks only proposed their star to the Lakers.

Luka Doncic. The youngest player in the league, it creates lusts. Who often stay in terms of fantasy, as it was clear for everyone in the NBA until this weekend that the Slovenian Star of Mavericks was untouchable in any transfer. What was not the surprise when the announcement of the deal with the Lakers became official.

Executives around the NBA are reportedly “furious” that the Lakers were the only team allowed to bid for Luka Dončić, per @espn_macmahon

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A surprise that quickly gave way, according to Tim Macmahon, to rage and jealousy. Yes, we can understand it: if Luka Doncic had been made publicly available by Dallas, it would be no less than 29 different NBA franchises that would have dropped out the phone to make more crazy proposals than the others.

Except, this was not the case. As Macmahon explains.

“The executives of NBA were both furious and jealous that the Lakers, a sumptuous team and already led by stars, were the only organization to have had the opportunity to negotiate to attach the services of Luka Doncic.”

At the same time, from a purely logical point of view, the Mavericks who have very few draft towers (zero between 2026 and 2029!) Could have recovered an enormous capital, especially from teams like jazz, the nets, Rockets. And even a star of a caliber higher than that of Anthony Davis.

However, they only decided to speak to Lakers to preserve the discretion of the deal and not panic the market. But why not have panicked it? This could have increased the bet of Los Angeles. So many misunderstandings, it is called a part of Cluedo and anyway, it is always the colonel mustard who commits the crime with a doe foot in the kitchen. But we wandered.

The fact remains that Nico Harrison, with this operation, is now certainly completely out of the credibility of other franchises. And that it will be very complicated for Dallas to beg for players without rehabilitation of this affair that no one will forget.

Source : ESPN



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