by far the most shocking trade in NBA history but why why did the Mavericks trade Prime Luca for ad and one pick why didn't they ask every team for their best package why do it now and out wait for the summer Tristan Thompson said Luca getting traded from Dallas has to have a deeper story behind it and he's right so the details are the Lakers get Luca Maxi kba marke Morris Mavs get ad Max Christie the Lakers first and the Jazz have to be a third team in here to make it work they get Jaylen
Hood chafino in 2 seconds now before we get to why this happened Luca is going to pair up with his Idol LeBron James in La so the Lakers go from plus 5,000 to win the West to plus 950 meaning they jumped over the Mavs Rockets Clippers and Grizzlies behind now just Denver and OKC this is an amazing trade for LA but pretty suspicious they get a 25-year-old MVP candidate for 32-year-old ad and Max Christie don't even have to give up all their first round picks something is going on here Reports say that LeBron had no
idea about this trade he was out to dinner with his family after beating the Knicks in New York the sons and Blazers were playing at the time and a fan yelled out to Devin Booker and book said be you mean Luca Garza like he figured the fan was wrong jams had to tweet this is a th% real basically saying my account wasn't hacked because the the only other time an MVP type was traded this young was ad in 2019 because he demanded a trade multiple Reports say Luca did not demand a trade he wanted to
be there dude was up for a super max extension in Dallas this summer did they think he wouldn't sign it so they would trade him now no this has never happened before so why well ESPN says that the Mavs GM Nico Harrison picked up the phone and he called the Lakers Rob pinka they knew each other for years through Kobe Nico could trust pinka to keep this quiet the Mavericks were motivated to move donic because of his constant conditioning concerns there had been significant frustration about Luca's lack of discipline regarding his diet and conditioning which
team Source has considered a major factor in his injury issues we all know that Luca looks fat and out of shape bad defense complains to refs remember when they clinched the NBA finals last year Luca was celebrating with a beer and Nico Harrison swiped it look at Luca's face we all thought it was hilarious yeah not Dallas or when Brian wior went off on Luca when they go down 3 0 in the finals his defensive performance is unacceptable he is a hole on the court his performance in this game is unacceptable and the reason why
the Mavericks are not going to win he's got to get over this and the fact that he came out after the game and blame the officials showed me he's nowhere close yet oh fans ripped Wendy for saying that but you know who didn't the Dallas Mavericks they also think that his conditioning creates the injuries just look at looka as a rookie he looked like this listed weight 230 but this year he looks like this this is a photo of Luca as of this week okay his weight according to ESPN is around 270 a 40 lb
difference and it ain't muscle dude has played Just 22 games this year because he got a calf strain and ESPN says when that happened near Christmas the Mavs reaction wasn't oh man what bad luck their reaction was this is your fault you wouldn't be injured if you were in shape so the Mavericks are doing something that we've never seen they're basically saying we don't want to be the Pelicans with Zion we don't want to be the Clippers with Kawai we don't want to be held hostage for years by a flaky Superstar we would rather take
our chances and trade him normally teams are too scared to do a deal like this and they just spend year after miserable year with their star in and out of the lineup Moody as hell I will bet that despite all their success recently the last few years have been a nightmare for people who work in the team their lives were miserable and they were like F this let's just move on they are now betting that Luca will not be the next great player that he won't win MVPs he won't win championships instead they're betting he
is the next Zion and this is why they did this trade but it still doesn't explain why Anthony Davis who is 32 years old and injury prone they could have gotten more right I mean Zack L says a GM immediately texted him what a terrible deal you would think that the Mavericks could have gotten like 10 first round picks they could have gotten almost any superstar in the NBA right except for like Victor Lama Shay gilis Alexander Nicole yic that's about it I think the Warriors would have even thought about trading Steph Curry for Luca
not saying that they would have done it for sentimental reasons but I think that they would consider it so why didn't they wait for this summer and just open up trade talks get the best package because they want to win now the Mavericks don't want like 10 first round picks because they want to compete this year and if they waited for the summer it would have killed a playoff run this year I think that n Harrison thought look if we open this up we'll have our pick of almost any Superstar except for those guys that
I said and Nico Harrison must a thought but the guy we want more than anyone is Anthony Davis so let's just make it happen right now I'm not saying that that's the right thing to do or that's the best player for them I'm just saying that's what their mindset was so why wait Nico told ESPN I believe that defense wins championships I believe that getting an all defensive Center and an all-nba player with a defensive mindset gives us a better chance we're built to win now and in the future ad and Max Christie by the
way because Christie has become a legit 3 andd player so they can now play a true center next to ad they have both Daniel Gafford and Derrick Lively when he gets healthy again Kyrie is going to run the point with Spencer diwy as his backup with Shooters but unless they win a championship this year it is an alltime stupid move okay Luca might be a headache but his career scoring averages number three in NBA history it goes Michael Jordan Will Chamberlain and then Luca only guys to average 25 seven boards and seven assists for a
career Oscar Robertson LeBron and Luca okay dude is clearly one of the best talents we have ever seen and to trade a guy like that at 25 years old would be worse than the Clippers dealing SGA like when Charlotte traded Kobe for Vlade on draft night worse than OKC dealing James Harden to Houston this guy must be such a pain in the butt for the Mavericks to be like you know what let's just get him out of here okay that is how annoying it must be to have Luca in your life but it's also a
huge slap in the face to Luca right to be the first player ever dealt like this and he's going to lose out on 116 million bucks by not being able to sign that super max in Dallas he can make that money up later in his career but still so is that enough to get Luca to change will maybe being on the same team as his Idol LeBron who has the most elite discipline ever be a wakeup call for him I'm actually kind of surprised that La has better odds than the Mavericks right now because a
Luca is in injured and B Dallas it's true is a more balanced roster right now okay ad and Kyrie are a natural fit Luc and LeBron do similar things now their Center is Christian Wood okay and what do they do with Austin Reeves do the Lakers really need a third oneway player to handle the ball no it makes sense now to trade Austin with that last draft pick to get a big man but would it be even smarter to hold on to those assets to build for the future around Luca because now they've got like
a 10-year window after LeBron maybe La doesn't want to go all in for this season honestly this is the most shocking trade of all time we are going to learn a lot more about why it happened but if the new details aren't that yeah Luca did demand a trade or Luca's got some horrible injury that none of us know about then the only reason is Dallas thinks he's the next Zion Williamson so if you want more current NBA this is why lamelo wasn't an all star this year but if you want an NBA mystery the
entire league wanted this dude to sign then he just disappeared to Europe for no reason well actually we just found out the true reason why years later
