Anthony Davis finishes with 2 pts, 1-9, -18 in 24 minutes, a career low for Anthony Davis in minutes played over 17
The man was limping into the 4th and they’re running plays for Anthony Davis just so he can score down 30 points. VERY bizarre game.
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401810204
Man refused to sit until he scored at least one bucket. No way he was gonna put up a 0 points stat line.
they legit ran 3 plays for him in the 3 timeouts they used for the 2nd half. What are the priorities here?
Pumping his trade value. No GM is gonna be able to resist shipping out every first round pick they have til the end of time when they see Davis’s monstrous 33% ATO conversion rate
His numbers have been down since the trade, but his ayyy’s per 36 is still off the charts baby! By God that’s Memphis’ music and here comes a litany of young guards and/or a highly skilled gun aficionado plus picks.
So, AD has the throne now. Kuminga reduced the ayyys a lot this year.
What is really the market for AD right now? A contender moving assets is going to risk the coin flip he’s available for the playoffs? A team ready to make the leap disrupting things for the same risk?
I can only think of maybe someone totally desperate for a last hurrah, or willing to take the risk, like a GSW or.. Boston next year? No idea.
After playing like this? Not much
Certainly not to a competitor, because they realize OKC will eat him in the postseason
They might have to give him the Kawhi treatment because he’s ridiculously fragile right now and will probably get worse
At this point, the only realistic trades for him are Kawhi and Embiid and then you’re just shuffling the chairs on the titanic. Maybe for Lavine.
Hopefully not a competitor, we need it to be someone whose pick (yeah I doubt he’s getting us more than one first rounder at this point) is worth something
I’d be calling up the Kangz
Him scoring 2 pts vs 0 pts in a game is not gonna matter compared to the risk of him re-injuring himself in terms of trade value
I genuinely think the Mavs will be much better off if they can unload Davis and it pains me to say that. Like yeah he put up good numbers for the last two days but then he had an absolute stinker today and everything it got slightly physical I was worried he would be injured, which by the looks of it he is.
That man’s body isn’t holding up and he is a ticking time bomb eating any teams salary.
Wow what a bold take.
they were down 30. at that point, it doesn’t even matter.
the priorities are making sure AD’s knees don’t blow up
I couldn’t believe they put him back out there to start the fourth. Just stupid and pointless.
Yeah if he got injured further, playing in garbage time to avoid a 0 point statline in a 30 point loss it would’ve been sooooo bad.
So that 2 points are that important comparing to his health. He was resting with pad already.
Actually insane they even put him back in. This organisation is just not serious lol
“i am not getting a fucking Tony Snell graphic”
Day to Davis could never be Snelly cat anyway
AD got outscored by every Thunder player lmao
Worst trade of all time.
It’s not even a debate. It was pure sabotage by a narcissistic psychopath.
It was an inside job it’s the only thing that makes sense.
Goddamn Nike assassins at it again.
Not just NBA history. Arguably sports history. Btw right after the trade Kendrick Perkins said the Mavs ‘won’ it, so
I was about to say Deshaun Watson due to the unloading of their draft capital as well, but the Mavs already did that in separate deals where it’s effectively the same outcome.
There’s the substantially worse PR that came out of it, but they also gave up on a player substantially worse than Luka with Baker..
In conclusion, it is absolutely insane that the Mavs conducted a trade so bad that I’m seriously debating if it’s worse than the Deshaun Watson Browns saga
Deshuan Watsob trade wasn’t as bad without hindsight.
The nfl equivalent would be trading Josh Allen/Lamar/Burrow in 2022 for a good but washed DE like JJ Watt or Von Miller.
Of course Perk would be the only person in the world outside the Mavs FO to think they won that trade in that moment.
Babe Ruth got traded for cash.
Yeah, the Luka trade is undoubtedly the worst in NBA history, but in terms of all-time bad trades in sports, the Red Sox selling the baseball GOAT to the Yankees for $100K, creating a Yankees dynasty and an 86-year championship drought stands above all.
Yeah I can think of a worse NBA trade without the benefit of hindsight. The SGA trade is worse in retrospect but at the time no one thought SGA was a potential GOAT candidate so it made a lot more sense. Luka was a known MVP level player who was still young.
I still think Luka is worse. Babe Ruth was undoubtably a star, but he wasn’t “Babe Ruth” yet. He only had a couple seasons as a hitter at that point and while he was definitely really good, again he wasn’t yet the greatest hitter in the history of baseball at that point. Hindsight is 20⁄20 and all that, and we can definitely look back and say that this was an incredibly stupid trade, but the era and landscape of sports was so radically different I’d say it mitigates a lot. Still dumb, but Luka feels so much more insane to me.
Nah babe is worse. If Luka starts winning rings or mvps then maybe
sports history is a stretch since sports have different trade mechanics.
atleltico madrid sold Antoine Griezman to Barcelona for \(140 million. he was ass so two years Barcelona sold him back for \)23 million. $120 million just went poof for no reason. not even accounting for the massive salary he was on during those two years.
The Browns got rid Baker and traded all their draft picks for a rapist so they can pay him 50m a year guaranteed to not play because he sucks.
The litmus test. If perk agrees with you, you know you fucked up badly.
DO YOU SEE NICOs VISION
Fucking moron
https://i.imgur.com/1SGNWNQ.png
defense wins championships
I’m here now!
He never wanted to be there and hes playing like it.
He never should be there and yet there he is, letting the team down on a daily basis while mourning the firing of ”his guy” Narcissist Nico.
He spent the first three quarters looking like he had absolutely no desire to be on the court, but came out super active in the fourth despite the game being well out of hand.
he wanted those 2 points
that’s all folks
Top 75 all time!
The first player off the list when it’s time for 100
Out of all the “blow it up and build around Cooper” games, this one is the one
Blowing it up when we literally have zero control of our own picks until 2031 after this season just isn’t gonna happen. Whoever the new GM is just gonna re-tool around whatever we’ll get in the AD trade and try to be semi competitive next season.
That will make it tricky to build a competitive team around Flagg, being unlikely to get any co-stars around his age.
This offseason’s lottery pick is our one shot. After that it’s a full retread of the Luka-KP years where we try and win as early as Flagg’s sophomore season.
Man the Clippers have bought into it, maybe Mavs just need a couple of years to warm up to it?
Dude Mavs had Luka freaking doncic and decided to blow it up… you don’t blow it up when you have Luka freaking doncic!
Idk man, this sub always tries to convince me Luka isn’t top 5 in the league rn lmfao. Couldn’t have been that bad of a loss, right? /s
Problem is they won’t get anything better than a pupu platter for Mr. Glass
That was pretty pathetic to put him back in there
It really was. Here I was scrolling Reddit as we Thunder do during the 4th quarter and then all of sudden heard Davis’ name, and was like what? Then ran like 3 back-to-back sets to get him a bucket, and almost immediately pulled him. Weak
They would have no one else to blame for the long term injury
fuck man AD looks like he has fallen off a cliff since that trade. i mean last season at this point around he was a mvp and dpoy contender
he has no motivation there. and it shows.
Its really one of the funniest events in the history of sports. Seemed so insane at the time, and it’s just gotten worse and worse with each passing day.
Sweeeet tea.
He wasn’t, absolutely not. He was good last year, this year he absolutely isn’t.
He looked very uninterested for most of this game
Yeah but the problem was no one knows how to give him the ball when he’s down there. They’re scared of OKC just fronting him and not one high pass.
Well you don’t need to play the full game to get your 2 points. Just needed to lock in during the 4th
He’s playing like he never wanted to be there, because he doesn’t.
Feeling is mutual.
honestly feel bad for the guy. Grew up playing PG in high school then grew a shit-ton, and feels like his body just never caught up to his bones growing so he’s been a glass cannon his whole career. hope he’s not too banged up after going down tonight.
he could have just stayed on the Lakers where he was comfortable and playing pretty well.
then he got traded out of nowhere for Luka Doncic, and now he has all this pressure of living up to that trade even though it was a totally lopsided trade to begin with. like unless he’s averaging 28 with elite defense everyone’s going to laugh and him and the Mavs.
it’s like when the Cavs took Anthony Bennet #1 overall and everyone including him was like “wtf he’s not that good”, then he felt all the pressure of trying to live up to standards that he was incapable of fulfilling, and next thing you know he’s out of the league.
28? I’m not even sure he’s averaging 20 this year after this game.
I mean hes got a championship…
for sure, but it’s hard not to attribute the sad state of affairs that is the New Orleans Pelicans polishing the bottom-tier of the league since he was drafted and held by them for forever. a couple fully healthy seasons by him down there would’ve been pretty cool to watch - idk if he would’ve got a chip with them, but man it sucked every time he got hurt + out for the season.
lakers with ad used to torch us…now lakers have no ad…mavs have no luka…cant get torched by either
Fuck Nico Harrison. Mavs had a great contending roster built around Luka last season too, and they were better than the finals team when he was healthy. Ppl forget that
AD used to make Chet look like his plaything for 30 minutes. How the league has changed.
Lakers should trade their superstar Reaves for AD. Two thunder merchants play together
Got his bucket in the end
Only 1,297 more games to catch LeBron’s record
Obviously its been beat into the ground how bad the Luka trade was but AD was balling before the injury last year. I hope he’s not cooked.
It was just a matter of time. AD being healthy for a stint was always an outlier of his career. Everyone was waiting for the injuries to start again and sadly since he is getting older, he isn’t healing fastZ
Thunder performing some community service to give AD his bucket.
Fortune favors the bold - ‘Nico Harrison’
The blue crayon looks yummy
The announcer said when he finally made the two points in the fourth quarter “looks like he’s finally getting going “lol
2 points lowkey worse than 0
Considering he came out in the 4th when down 30 after taking a few knocks. yeah, its worse.
So that’s how Kuzma stays in the league.
JWILL CHAMBER
Fortune favors the old
He’s tanking his trade value even more.
The Mavs organization are not serious people.
2 more points than Luka scored tonight. Mavs won the trade.
Yeah but has Luka ever put up a stat line like that?
Clippers will take him off your hands for all our frps thru 2040
Damn he needs to be smart take the year off and come back next year
Never going to happen. People like to clown his injuries, but the guy is a competitor and wants to play even when he’s not healthy
He should if he ever wants to get another contract. Dude can still be a menace on the defensive end and give you 25 a night if he was healthy
We were unfairly denied a world where the two highest paid players on the Lakers in 2025 were Anthony Davis and LeBron.
For every 3 ADominate, there must be 1 ADisappear
Are you seeing Nick’s vision yet
But his defense was suffocating, right?
At least he choked.
What a fucking mess of a title.
“A career low for Anthony Davis in minutes played over 17.”
you must be fun at parties
I am, because I talk about normal arts not hand picked weird shit.
Oh. Well that changes my mind!
LOL
the problem is AD really needs a PG that can facilitate to set him up. hence why his best years were with Rondo in NOLA and Bron/Rondo in LA. I firmly believe if Nico got Reaves in the trade, Mavs would be a solid playoff team.
Crazy thought: what if the Mavs buy him out
Did he have a streak to keep? Lolll
“Who hasn’t had a bad game against OKC?”
Mavs we’d like to interest you in one Kuminga and filler in exchange for AD. No need for picks on either end.
AD reminds me of another championship winning Mavs center…Andrew Bogut
I respect his dedication for the game, but it hurts seeing him hobbling to get buckets
Defense wins cham
washed
Gotta keep that none zero point streak going.
From street clothes to trash bag
Dallas got dominated in the paint - difference of 24 points!!!!!!! 12 TOs conceded 18 points and got rebounded by 8👎👎👎
It’s kinda hard on veteran players like him when your running the team through cooper Flagg