Analyzing Mavericks' Controversial Trade of Luka Doncic

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00:00And so, Carlin, here's what I would say, as somebody who's reported on professional sports

00:05for a long time and considered, as far as baseball goes, to be an insider of some kind,

00:10I feel like I have good sense for this sort of stuff, Carlin.

00:13And I think that what you're saying in the end, I think, is accurate.

00:17But I truly do feel, and I've seen this play out before, the Russell Wilson trade comes

00:21to mind as well, I got to feel like the Mavericks know him better than anybody else.

00:26And for them to do this, I think jumping to conclusions, and again, I don't know how

00:30it's going to work out for the Mavericks, but jumping to conclusions to just assume

00:34that they don't know what they're doing, I think is super foolish, man.

00:37Like, I don't know.

00:38I feel like, eventually, a reporter in Dallas, Carlin, maybe a national reporter, it could

00:44be a year from now, it could be two years from now, I think a lot more is set to come

00:48out about why this deal was done.

00:51Maybe it'll be fed to a reporter in some way, it'll be off the record, I don't know.

00:55But I'm just not buying that the Mavericks just are silly, or a silly franchise and

01:00didn't know what they were doing.

01:01I think, personally, they felt like, in my opinion, that, like a thief in the night,

01:07you call one team, once you open up the door to everybody, and everyone starts wondering,

01:11what the heck's going on with this guy?

01:12Why would they want to trade him?

01:13I think they felt like this was the max that they could get.

01:15Maybe some people don't feel like it's a lot in Anthony Davis, but I think that something

01:19else happened here.

01:20Yeah, and there's two different things here, right?

01:23There's their public perception, and that's what I was just speaking on.

01:26Public perception is the Dallas Mavericks made a huge mistake going forward.

01:30And like I said, the only way to kind of change that, in most people's minds, is to go out

01:34and win an NBA title.

01:35If you want my honest opinion, I think the pressure here is on Luka Doncic.

01:39Luka Doncic was just sold to the Los Angeles Lakers for what many believe is less than

01:43what his actual value is.

01:45Luka Doncic is being told, like, hey, you were not good enough to win us a title here.

01:50Good luck over there.

01:51Luka Doncic was told, hey, you know, you've been able to get away with certain things

01:54here in Dallas that you might not be able to get away with in LA.

01:57And some of that is true, right?

01:58Dallas is not a small market, but it's not LA.

02:01LA is a national story, whether they're good or bad.

02:05And not just in the NBA, like when they transcend sports, like they're one of those franchises

02:09we talk about throughout sports.

02:11They're in the level of the Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys.

02:14That's where the Lakers are.

02:15We put them on a pedestal.

02:16So game 21, when Luka Doncic isn't playing defense, that is going to be a talking point.

02:22And that hasn't happened so far in his career.

02:24He's going to have to step up and prove to the Dallas Mavericks that they made a huge

02:27mistake by getting rid of him here.

02:30And the only way to do that is to really win a title.

02:32Because all the greats have done that in LA.

02:34You talk about Shaq.

02:35You talk about Kobe.

02:36You go back even further.

02:37Magic Kareem.

02:38Anyone that has ever worn a Laker uniform that has been considered an all-time great

02:43has been able to win a championship, and that includes LeBron James, who is now his teammate.

02:46So championship or bust really right now for Luka Doncic, and a guy who started the

02:52last two seasons as a favorite to win the MVP, has not yet gotten an MVP, that's not

02:57going to be good enough in LA.

02:58You've got to maximize that potential and deliver, and it starts now.

03:03The minute he starts, it steps foot on the court whenever he does come back from injury.

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