The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Mavs GM Speaks Out After Luka Doncic Is Traded To Lakers For Anthony Davis

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

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Donkey of the day right here. That's a breakfast club, bitches. You can call me the donkey of the day, but like, I mean no harm. Yes, donkey of the day from Monday, February 3rd, goes the Dallas Mavericks general manager, Nico Harrison. Now if you haven't heard, the Dallas Ma Mavericks traded Luka Donchik. How you pronounce his name? Donkich? Donchik?

Luka. Okay. Luka is 25 years old. He was rookie of the year. He's been to the All-Star game five times. He led the league in scoring last year, averaging over 33 a game. And he took the maps to the NBA finals last year.

He's a franchise player. Okay, the type of player you build around. But Nico Harrison doesn't seem to think so so Luca was traded to the Dallas Maverick I mean to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis who's no slouches damn self okay he's got a career average of 24 and 10 nine time All-Star four time All-MBA first team two time All-MBA defensive team but he just hurts a lot and he's 31 years old okay look I can be totally premature with this hee haw

because I believe Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irvin are gonna be great in Dallas, but some things make sense and some things don't make sense to me. And Luca being traded from Dallas to the Lakers doesn't make sense to me. Let's go to ESPN News for the report, please. This is maybe the most stunning trade,

definitely that I've been a part of in recent NBA history as far as it was never clearly out there. And I'm told Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis, LeBron James, the players, coaches, a lot of people on both sides with the Mavericks and Lakers had no idea. I can assuredly tell you it's a fact. LeBron James had no idea this was coming. Anthony Davis had no idea this was coming.

I'm told Luka Doncic is still stunned about this trade. But when you look at the totality of what just occurred, Luka Dantic is a 25 year old, like you said, mega star, you know, perennial all NBA player. He's someone that you think of as untouchable, as a guy that's never going to be traded. I'm told that the Mavericks actually approached the Lakers and offered Luka Dantic a few days ago in a trade. Very recently, the Mavericks went out. They knew exactly who they wanted. They wanted Anthony Davis.

That's the player that if they were ever going to trade Luka Dantic, if this was even a thought that was going to cross their mind, it was 4AD. Just when I thought no sports organization in Dallas could make worse decisions than my cowboys, here come the maths. Okay, now Dallas must know something about Luca that we don't. Reports are that Luca's weight went up to 270 pounds. So you mean to tell me that Luca got traded because he gained too much weight, but Zion Van Drost is still a Pelican?

Now I got nothing love! I got nothing but love for Zion Williamson, okay? South Carolina all day, but nobody's weight has fluctuated more since the architect of never too much. So you're not going to make me believe that Luca got traded because of his weight. When a generational player like Luca gains weight, you don't trade him, you get him a trainer and a nutritionist. Simple. How do you go from 33 a game in an NBA finals appearance last year to 28, eight and seven

this year, that all of a sudden your team saying they don't want you because you're fat. In fact, Niko Harrison said the reason they made the trade was because they want to win now and weren't thinking about 10 years from now. Listen. I think the long term is the timeframe. I think he fits our timeframe. If you pair him with Kyrie and the rest of the guys, he fits right along with our timeframe to win now and win in the future. And the future to me is three, four years from now. The future, 10 years from now, I don't know. I don't think they're probably bearing me and J.Buddy. Or we bear ourselves.

Yes. I think you might have buried yourself. Nico, he went to the NBA finals last year. OK? He's 25. Give him and Kyrie some time to cook. Surround them with more talent. Okay How was the GM are you not thinking ten years down the road?

This guy Luca is gonna be a superstar for a long long time unless you know something we don't okay Nico said the contract was a factor too. Let's listen Yeah, I think it wasn't really like a point. I think it was how do we make our team better? You know, there's some unique things about his contract that we had to pay attention to. You know, there's other teams that were loading up, you know, that he was gonna have, he was gonna be able to decide

and make his own decision at some point of whether he wants to be here or not, whether we want to supermax him or not, or whether he wants to opt out. So I think we had to take all that into consideration and feel like we got out in front of what could have been a tremolchois summer. So you're telling me joking, not going to get a Supermax

when it's his time. Jason Tatum signed a Supermax, okay? You surround Luka with the right talent so he doesn't want to leave. I don't know, man. I think that this brought to this story, okay? Whose lady in the Mavericks organization did Luka knock off? All right. Did you find out he's a serial killer in Slovenia? All right. Somebody tell me something that

makes sense because I refuse to believe the basketball gods love the Lakers this much. Okay, maybe they do. I've been alive a long, a long time, long enough to see the Lakers do this quite a few times from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, to Paul Gasol, to LeBron James, the trades that have been vetoed like to Paul Gasol, to LeBron James, the trades that have been vetoed like Chris Paul, they always tend to get one that makes you scratch your head. Like how do they pull that off? And really I would like to know how did they pull that off?

Okay, Nico, you got a piece like Luca and you didn't even think to shop it, you want us to buy that you were thinking about winning a championship in the next three to four years, but you didn't even put Luca on the open market to see what other deals were available. I'm sure that there was better deals out there. Okay, I'm telling you right now, if this don't work, Donald Trump is going to use you, Nico,

as an example as to why DEI is ruining corporate America. I've never seen anything like this. And now because Luka has been traded, he is ineligible for the $345 million supermax contract that he was short assigned. By the way, I don't think that's fair because it's not performance based. Luca earned that money because of what he does on the basketball court. He shouldn't have to leave hundreds of millions of dollars on the table because executives made what I believe to be a poor decision.

But I only feel as poor because I don't have all the information. If it is because of his weight, then Luca needs to sue for weight discrimination. Okay. If Big Dank can sue Lift, then Big Dunk should be able to sue the Mavs. That's all I got. Please give general manager, Nico Harrison, the biggest E-Haul? I'm playing with Big Dank, yo. What you mean? It's Big Dank can sue lift.

That's for real. If Big Dank can sue lift for weight discrimination, how come Big Dunk can't sue the Mavs? Gotta be more to that story. It's gotta be. It made the man knock off somebody girl or something in the organization, man. Or he was acting frustrated, like he didn't want to re-sign, so they figured they'd trade him before he just opt out. It gotta be more to that situation.

Was he trading a year from now right? Next year I thought right? Gotta be more to that story. It's got to be, you just don't get rid of no Luke or Duncan, it's like that. And people always ask about the no trade clause. I think there's only 10 NBA players with a no trade clause ever in their contract.

And just a number, it was David Robinson, John Stockton, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Dirk, Dwayne Wade, LeBron, Carmelo, and Bradley Beard. And Kevin still ended up getting traded. Who? Kevin Garnett, Kevin Garnett got traded a few times. Yeah, but he had to approve it. You could get traded, but you just gotta approve the trade.

I just refuse to believe that they got rid of Luka because he like chocolate cupcakes and oatmeal cream pies. I just refuse to believe that they got rid of Luca because he like chocolate cupcakes and oatmeal cream pies. I just don't, I don't believe that. So you can do that, you can approve, like you can go against them if they try, you just got to be traded. You can sign a new trade clause

where you won't get traded unless you have to approve the trade. So if you don't want to leave, you ain't got to leave, but they don't get that to too many plays. Oh, okay, wow. So it's just like sleeves. Like you want no, you take this nigga. The fact that they come together

and pick their own teams and people are like, what, it's not fair. Well, the coaches and management could trade him at any given point. And they have to go where? And the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars he's gonna lose now because he's ineligible for the super max because he got traded

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