OT: 2024-25 NBA and NCAA Basketball Thread

[NJDevs26]

Looked around three times for one, haven't found it...guess there isn't the local interest here to keep up a thread despite the Knicks doing well (to be fair I'm not a hardcore NBA fan either). But man this Luka-Davis trade is wild. It would be like us trading Jack for Kucherov, like what's the point of shortening your window to a microscopic level AND doing the opposite for a quasi-rival?

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[Clam Jensen]

Looked around three times for one, haven't found it...guess there isn't the local interest here to keep up a thread despite the Knicks doing well (to be fair I'm not a hardcore NBA fan either). But man this Luka-Davis trade is wild. It would be like us trading Jack for Kucherov, like what's the point of shortening your window to a microscopic level AND doing the opposite for a quasi-rival?

Literally one of the craziest trades of all time. Luka didn’t ask for it, LeBron and AD didn’t know…Apparently there were concerns over his “conditioning” which is such BS considering how AD is one of the most injury prone players in the league.

Absolutely insane. Just brought his team to the finals, 25 years old, potential franchise GOAT and top 20 player OAT…and this is the return?! Makes him ineligible for the super max too next year.

Candidly I don’t watch any NBA, but I do loosely follow NBA Reddit.

 

[Ripshot 43]

Looked around three times for one, haven't found it...guess there isn't the local interest here to keep up a thread despite the Knicks doing well (to be fair I'm not a hardcore NBA fan either). But man this Luka-Davis trade is wild. It would be like us trading Jack for Kucherov, like what's the point of shortening your window to a microscopic level AND doing the opposite for a quasi-rival?

This is one of those trades that conspiracy theorists would say the league helped happen so that big market LA could have their next Superstar lined up. Crazy trade for Dallas.

 

[NJDevs26]

This is one of those trades that conspiracy theorists would say the league helped happen so that big market LA could have their next Superstar lined up. Crazy trade for Dallas.

Except David Stern actually did nix the Chris Paul trade way back, of course it's a different guy in charge now.

 

[Mgd31]

Awful trade for the Mavs. Not sure I see the point of it unless they worry Luka is going to be chronically injured for the rest of his career

At least open it up to a bidding war.

 

[My3Sons]

AD did ok for himself but the apparent belief he had that Rich Paul cared about him as anything other than a foil for LeBron is still sort of sad.