Quote from: avp2306 on February 12, 2025, 09:15:29 AM

Quote from: OgNasty on February 11, 2025, 11:41:46 PM

An interesting report came out claiming that the Luka Doncic trade didn’t go down quite like they said. Anthony Davis was the Dallas Mavericks third choice. They originally contacted the Milwaukee Bucks about trading for Giannis and when that was declined they contacted the Minnesota Timberwolves about Anthony Edwards. After that was declined they contacted the Lakers.

Wow that's really crazy and didn't know they come up with other option aside from contacting Lakers and got curious about why does Mavs would really think that Bucks will trade Giannis out of their team for sure their fans would not gonna love this to happen and also for sure the management doesn't want to let go their franchise player.

For context of this discussion other people could read this article https://www.si.com/nba/bucks/news/mavericks-attempted-to-trade-giannis-antetokounmpo-for-luka-doncic-bucks-refused-report

So this indicate that they are really afraid to give Luka a super max contract and they are desperate to get another player that can help their team. But to bad they land on their last option and they get another injury prone player.

That one makes a lot more sense though. I mean it is not about why they think Bucks would trade for Giannis, first of all Giannis is older, and secondly Mavs just wanted to take a shot, if it happened it happened, if it doesn't then what's bad about just asking?

Secondly, they asked about Edwards, which would have been a pretty good deal if you ask me, Edwards isn't a ball hog, so that means with Kyrie and some bigs, that would mean that Edwards would have been a great penetrating thread without a doubt. So all in all, this makes things a lot better for them considering how they actually did try to make a better deal at first.

However, turns out they couldn't get anyone they wanted, and AD isn't a bad choice neither. Too many people are acting like they just got picks, but they got picks and AD at the same time, and Kyrie with AD isn't a bad team, add Klay there too, who isn't having a great season but if he gets it going, then that team is a short term great team.

The only downside is that they have a short term to do good. If they win the title this season, everyone will forgive Nico.