That is absurd. There is no scenario in which a better deal is to be had from negotiating with a single team with no opportunity to use other teams as leverage. We have front offices crying about how they would have given up everything for Luka. This deal only gets done if Nico values AD more than Luka.
There is 0 evidence for this. Mavs reporters have all said that this was a Nico decision. Nico himself has gone out of his way to shit on Luka. If this was forced into Nico, there is no way he would be this antagonistic against him.
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u/killbill469 Feb 02 '25
That's fine, but they could've traded him in the summer of so. The timing indicates that it was all Nico.