The Celtics have officially buried Luka, the Mavs, and Anthony Davis’ dad

In a single day, we noticed one of many, if not THE, largest commerce in NBA historical past go down when the Dallas Mavericks despatched Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis.

I sadly wasn’t awake when every little thing went down, however did spend an hour scrolling by Twitter and studying the complete newsbreak expertise this morning. This commerce was so loopy that it had folks considering that ESPN’s Shams Charania had his account hacked.

Within the second, I’m positive that it felt extra believable {that a} hacker had had their approach with Shams’ account somewhat than this video-game commerce being legit. Alas, we’re right here and there’s a blockbuster deal to dissect.

Now, you is likely to be saying to your self, “Sam, you large dumb fool, that is CelticsBlog. Why are we dissecting a Lakers-Mavs commerce?”

Effectively, it’s as a result of from a Celtics perspective, that is completely hilarious.

In the beginning, the Luka Doncic version of the Dallas Mavericks will ceaselessly be buried within the Boston Celtics cemetery after final season’s NBA Finals.

Boston made an instance out of Dallas again in June. They did so largely by making the most of Doncic’s defensive shortcomings and constantly focusing on him on that aspect of the ball.

They did it so aggressively in Recreation 3 of the Finals that Luka wound up fouling out halfway by the fourth quarter.

One of the best a part of him fouling out that evening was that there was reputable discourse about whether or not or not Doncic being on the bench for the ultimate 5 minutes would truly be factor for the Mavs. Boston nonetheless wound up successful the sport, but it surely was a sweat down the stretch.

This was extra than simply the Cs exploiting a weak level. It was extra like they put collectively a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation for Dallas basic supervisor Nico Harrison, explaining why a participant who’s so defensively inept can’t lead a championship crew.

That presentation should’ve been embedded deep into Harrison’s mind for the final eight months, it appears. Harrison fired a number of photographs on the Slovenian’s protection as he shipped him out the door.

In the meantime, the Lakers simply, actually, traded away their All-Defensive large man for a generational offensive expertise who doesn’t defend. To not point out that ESPN’s Tim MacMahon cited Doncic’s extreme weight, which he says hit 270 kilos, as reasoning why the Mavs didn’t really feel comfy providing him a supermax contract down the road.

Now L.A. goes to roll out a lineup of Doncic, a 40-year-old LeBron James, and the boys. It’ll be a defensive monstrosity at Crypto.com Area.

I can’t wait.

I’m simply sitting right here fascinated by that first time that LeBron shoots of a passive aggressive tweet about Doncic’s health or inevitably throws him beneath the bus throughout a postgame scrum. It’s going to feed households, as they are saying.

Don’t get me improper. The Lakers completely fleeced Dallas right here. They received a generational participant who’s 25 years outdated whereas solely giving up a 31-year-old Anthony Davis and a first-round decide (plus some filler guys).

There really isn’t any higher franchise at simply having famous person gamers fall immediately into their lap. It’s how the Lakers have remained related by so many various eras.

Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal, Pau Gasol, LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and now Luka Doncic have all principally confirmed as much as the Discussion board or Staples Heart able to obtain their purple and gold uniforms. They’ve made a historical past out of “stealing different crew’s gamers,” as the nice Invoice Burr would say.

They plied Davis away from the New Orleans Pelicans nearly six years in the past (wow), buying and selling a bundle of younger gamers and picks to the Massive Straightforward for the famous person large man.

What a time 2019 was. The Davis sweepstakes hijacked a lot of the 2018-19 season with the Lakers and Celtics being the 2 potential touchdown spots for The Forehead.

There was buzz that the superstars on each groups, LeBron in L.A. and Kyrie Irving in Boston, wished to crew up with the previous No. 1 total decide.

Throughout Davis’ remaining months in New Orleans, his father weighed in on the place he’d prefer to see his son play subsequent. Anthony Davis Sr. took the chance to elucidate how he would by no means need his son to play for the massive unhealthy Celtics due to the best way that they traded away Isaiah Thomas after he’d left all of it out on the parquet (no debating that this wasn’t probably the most morally sound transfer).

Davis Sr. wished to see his son play for a pleasant loyal franchise just like the Lakers.

I ponder what he thinks of the Mavericks and their loyalty.

At the very least AD will get to play together with his good buddy Kyrie in Dallas. Curiously sufficient, Danny Ainge helped unite the 2 all the years after Irving’s time in Boston. Ainge helped to facilitate the Lakers-Mavs commerce by taking again Jalen Hood-Schifino and two second-round picks.

Luka was already extraordinarily unlikable with all of his whining and complaining throughout video games. Now that he’ll be enjoying for the Lakers, it’ll be past enjoyable to root in opposition to all 270 kilos of him.