Luka Doncic is now a part of the Los Angeles Lakers and the transfer continues to be being thought to be puzzling on the Dallas Mavericks facet.
Dallas Mavericks GM Nico Harrison has taken the a largest danger of his tenure, buying and selling away franchise participant Luka Doncic.
The Mavericks’ resolution means Doncic is now not eligible for the supermax contract, costing him in extra of $100 million.
The five-time All-NBA participant now groups up with idol LeBron James, a transfer that Magic Johnson believes will result in championship competition for the Lakers.
From the Dallas Mavericks’ facet – the scenario is much less fairly, and is being dissected, with Nico Harrison coming beneath fireplace.
Talking at a press convention, Nico Harrison defined the Dallas Mavericks have been heading in the direction of a ‘tumultuous’ summer season, talking to a choice centering round Luka Doncic’s potential extension.
Signing him the the supermax would have been a $345 million dedication, and the workforce buying and selling him away to the Lakers is a agency indication they didn’t need to achieve this.
Chatting with The Ringer, NBA professional Kirk Goldsberry expressed his disapproval of Dallas’ resolution, commenting: “It’s staggering.”
Goldsberry defined that attempting to see it from Dallas’ facet, the one cause they might commerce him away can be as a result of they feared Doncic’s damage issues, even citing Joel Embiid as an excessive comparability.
He mentioned: “I’m not justifying this, however they attain the conclusion internally that we don’t need to pay this particular person $350 million.
“We don’t assume his calf is gonna maintain up. We don’t assume his physique’s gonna maintain up. We don’t assume his vitamin is nice. No matter. They attain the conclusion that they’re out.
“It’s fairly clear they didn’t need to be within the enterprise of Luca Doncic long run. They assume he’s extra like Joel Embiid than the remainder of us.
“They assume that it is a massive long-term danger and so they don’t need that Joel Embiid albatross contract hanging over their cap desk for the following no matter, 5, six years.”
Joel Embiid signed a supermax extension with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2022, and has contrived to overlook virtually half the NBA video games he has been accessible for.
This season Embiid has performed solely 13 common season video games, and the 76ers are presently eleventh within the Jap Convention.
Doncic has solely performed 22 video games in 2024-25, and whereas proper to have issues over this, he’s nonetheless solely 25.
It’s a super gamble from the Mavericks, and one Nico Harrison will likely be held accountable to if it goes improper.
