The Wildest NBA Trade I've Ever Seen.

I was going to wait until the trade deadline was here, but certain moves have forced my hand to dedicate one entire post to this move. And no, I am not referring to the Thomas Bryant to Indiana Pacers trade. No, I refer to the seismic trade that has delighted Lakers fans, infuriated Mavericks fans and frankly confused the rest of us.

On Saturday night the Dallas Mavericks traded their future Hall of Fame guard who is only 25 years old for Anthony Davis of the Lakers. Make no mistake about it, Anthony Davis is no bum, is no consolation prize and is an All-NBA performer. The trade is shocking simply because we have never seen a player of Luka’s pedigree get traded right as he is preparing to enter his prime and has made no requests to be traded.

For the Lakers, this is the biggest duh ever. Rob Pelinka was sitting back looking out the window and he got a call asking him if he wanted to trade for a 5-time first team All-NBA and he had to ask are you serious? Like there are four, maybe five guys who are untradeable and I thought Luka was one of them.

I’m literally sitting here, and I have concluded that this is what happens when people who don’t use their eyes and only use formulas to decide what is good basketball. That’s gotta be it. He sees a guy who isn’t a good defender and may come into the season “out of shape” and not use your damn eyes and see oh this dude is a damn killer.

And again, Anthony Davis isn’t the issue here but he is an oft injured center on the wrong side of 30.

You must include him in any trade but you also gotta get more. You don’t give up Jalen Hood Schifino and 1 first round pick along with Davis to get a guy who at his WORST is the fifth best player in the league. You at least open the offers to more than one team so you can get more in return. If you trade a Luka Doncic you absolutely have to get a franchise altering amount of picks and players back. Hell the Jazz got damn near a decade worth of picks and a solid center in Walker Kessler for Rudy Gobert and no one likes Rudy Gobert!

I do not care if there are “conditioning” concerns, open your damn eyes and take your head out the damn spreadsheets. Short of Luka slapping my wife and or mother the idea to trade him would not even cross my mind. 

What we have now done is I fear, activate a basketball sociopath who trained with Kobe as a teenager. A guy who as he is getting dogged for "not being ready" averaging 28, 8, and 8. If this is him not ready then what the hell are we about to see out of a motivated Slovenian who dragged Dallas to the Finals last year? 

Thanks a lot Dallas. You certainly made the rest of this season much more interesting.