Two days since I was considering winding down for bed before getting the baffling trade alerts that the Dallas Mavericks have traded Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis. The night of to process my grief, I talked with Mavericks fans around the world for nearly four hours.
Every refrain was some various of the obvious: how on Earth could the Dallas Mavericks do this? More specifically, and this is important, how on Earth could you do this? You told us Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka thought you were joking when you first proposed this trade. And in its place is rage. Rage at you. This is your choice, so you say it with your chest. Second, you very clearly do not get it , it being what a fan of a team and of a player really means.
We want to win, yes, but we want to win with our guy. And I speak for nearly every Mavericks fan here: Luka Doncic was our guy. You are not. And it was coming Nico, the triumph was coming!
The news is getting worse now, with reports that the deal was bigger and better for Dallas , only you let your friend Rob Pelinka manipulate you and accepted a worse deal.
It was one thing when you dropped the ball on the Nike-Steph Curry meeting , you have to own that one, but we know how big businesses are, and sometimes underlings can make mistakes.
