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Everyone was shocked when news broke on Saturday night that Luka Doncic had been traded to the Lakers for Anthony Davis: Fans, players on other teams, and even the players involved in the trade and their agents had no idea this was happening until minutes before it was complete.
Also in the dark: Other general managers and front offices — and they are pissed about it. Those other GMs see this as Dallas GM Nico Harrison neglecting his duty by not shopping Doncic around to extract the most value in trade instead of lasering in on just Davis and the Lakers. Here is what some executives told Howard Beck at The Ringer.
“The return sucks. Your job is to get the best return,” said another Western Conference team executive.
“It’s shortsighted,” said an Eastern Conference team executive, adding: “If you want to do this, shop the guy. The deals you could have gotten for him are ridiculous.”
ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Tim MacMahon said executives were “furious and jealous.”
Unfathomable,” one Western Conference executive told ESPN.
“I’m stunned,” an Eastern Conference executive texted.
From the Dallas perspective, there were two parts to this trade, and around the league executives and fans are still trying to wrap their heads around either part of it. Let alone both of them together.
The first was the decision to move on from Doncic in the first place — teams do not trade away a 25-year-old, First-Team All-NBA five years running, top five players in the world entering their prime unless forced to do so. Doncic forced no such thing — he is literally just about to close escrow on a new $12 million home in the Dallas area. Doncic planned to stay with the team both because he wanted to win in Dallas — he had visions of following the footsteps of Dirk Nowitzki, playing his entire career with the franchise — and because they were the only team that could offer him a supermax contract this summer of five-years, $345 million.
It was that contract that gave Dallas some pause.
“There’s some unique things about [Doncic’s] contract, that we had to pay attention to,” Harrison said at his press conference. “There’s…
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Publish date : 2025-02-04 02:18:00
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