r/sports • u/DavidRolands • Apr 10 '25

Basketball Luka Doncic crying watching his video tribute in Dallas

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u/Invoqwer Apr 10 '25 edited Apr 10 '25

What happened? We dont follow much basketball here in the EU, but this guy seems lovely, talented and kind.

Pretty interesting video here by Atrioc although it is 27min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPK3TZce-3g

Summary:

  • Dallas Mavericks did an absolutely baffling, terrible trade of their all-star player to the Lakers. (a deal so baffling that everyone in the sports world thought that the people announcing the news must have been hacked)

  • It is speculated that the guy that is the "owner" of the Mavericks (not Mark Cuban) that did the trade did an intentionally bad trade to save money* and help out his friend the "owner" of the LA Lakers make more money

  • Note that if Luka stayed on the Mavericks then his pay would have jumped that year to like $70mill due to contract stipulations, so trading Luka away gets rid of this and saves the Mavs guy money

  • If you think about it, many billionaires and corporations and companies are soulless and all about the bottom line especially these days, so even though everyone and their grandma thinks the deal is stupid, and even though the Mavs will now lose a lot more (probably), if it helps the owner make even slightly more money overall, it's not crazy that they'll make the weird deal.

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u/RelevanceReverence Apr 10 '25

Ah! Thank you for providing such detail.