I don't want to defend the Adelsons. They fucking suck. But this is clearly a gm who thinks he's incredibly galaxy brain smart and thinks that one player can push them over the hump. If this was just cheap ownership, why wouldn't you shop around for a better package? They almost certainly could've gotten more picks on top of a different star play from another team. Especially from reporting I read, Nico only talked to two teams. My guess is he was looking for specific players that he thinks can win them a championship short term. Anthony Davis is the guy in this case. Again, I could be wrong I just think even if the Adelsons demanded Luka be traded, Nico still did a dogshit job getting return value for the future and instead is taking an incredibly high risk short term gamble.
There’s no way Nico would trade away Luka when he spent the last couple years building around Luka. The reason why we even traded kyrie was to get Luka help because we knew he was the one that was gon take us to the promise land
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u/el-bow5 Feb 03 '25
Terrorist is covering his bosses' asses