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 all the pieces 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 individuals pondering that ESPN’s Shams Charania had his account hacked.

Within the second, I’m certain that it felt extra believable {that a} hacker had had their means 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 could be saying to your self, “Sam, you huge dumb fool, that is CelticsBlog. Why are we dissecting a Lakers-Mavs commerce?”

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

At first, the Luka Doncic version of the Dallas Mavericks will endlessly 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 benefiting from Doncic’s defensive shortcomings and constantly focusing on him on that facet 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 night time was that there was professional discourse about whether or not or not Doncic being on the bench for the ultimate 5 minutes would really be a superb 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 not lead a championship crew.

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

In the meantime, the Lakers simply, the truth is, traded away their All-Defensive huge 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 excited about that first time that LeBron shoots of a passive aggressive tweet about Doncic’s health or inevitably throws him underneath the bus throughout a postgame scrum. It’s going to feed households, as they are saying.

Don’t get me incorrect. 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 choose (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 Middle 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 virtually six years in the past (wow), buying and selling a bundle of younger gamers and picks to the Large Straightforward for the famous person huge 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 general choose.

Throughout Davis’ closing 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 large dangerous Celtics due to the way in which 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’m wondering what he thinks of the Mavericks and their loyalty.

At the least AD will get to play along 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 taking part in for the Lakers, it’ll be past enjoyable to root in opposition to all 270 kilos of him.