FunTailor794

1084 | 7 hours ago

Tbh I’m surprised ad has that many points as a mav lol

soilentgleem

262 | 7 hours ago

Same. He must have had some monster games cuz he barely played

AFonziScheme

319 | 7 hours ago

20.2 ppg in 29 games. Four 30+ point games with a high of 35.

Enough-Airline-5464

76 | 4 hours ago

Surprised he actually got 29 games in lol, would’ve guessed about 15

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2 | 3 hours ago

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AFonziScheme

3 | 3 hours ago

Dropped 26 twice and 29 against the Rockets. Hit the Pelicans for 35.

ajh_iii | Celtics

219 | 7 hours ago

I saw Nico’s vision in that first game he played as a Mav, and then he immediately got hurt.

Tony_Lacorona

130 | 6 hours ago

That was the vision

Joxss

73 | 6 hours ago

Nico had a vision and followed it. Problem is that mfer needs some glasses asap

Kevinar | Knicks

66 | 5 hours ago

Yeah incredibly unfortunate really, that was actually AD’s first injury of his entire career. He hadn’t missed a single game before coming to Dallas

RedSnapper97 | Raptors

21 | 5 hours ago

That is the peak AD experience

noqms | Mavericks

16 | 4 hours ago

He was actually incredible as well

BeagleSnake

6 | 2 hours ago

Yeah I closed my eyes at some point during the game too

XLGrandma | Hornets

2 | an hour ago

no injuries that team was gonna be a fucking wagon…….but man its ad.

demsouls | Raptors

1 | 2 hours ago

Nico’s wearing a monocle or something because Luka was worth 2 AD’s in trade value BEFORE he lost weight.

Allthingsconsidered-

20 | 6 hours ago

Cant wait to see this stat all over ESPN later lol…

heat_fan_ | Raptors

295 | 7 hours ago

Fuck Nico that’s all there to say

Ozymandias_1303 | Knicks

47 | 4 hours ago

That’s not all. There’s also “Fuck Patrick Dumont.”

yeetmxster420 | Minneapolis Lakers

7 | 4 hours ago

I love Nico* cut my guy some slack

precense_ | Mavericks

1 | 2 hours ago

nico pelinka silver all in bed together fkn the nba rigged as shit

octagon2356

0 | 3 hours ago

he is a pretty sexy guy

darryn_peterson | Wizards

-87 | 6 hours ago

He got the mavs cooper flagg so the mavs won the trade

-xXxMangoxXx- | Raptors

36 | 5 hours ago

He got lucky the mavs jumped up all those spots and got the 1st pick.

Hate_Leg_Day | Lakers

30 | 5 hours ago

Cooper Flagg still has a long way to go until he’s as good as Luka.

fairylaw15 | 23

19 | 5 hours ago

Said no one ever

ThrowawayCorporate2 | Knicks

11 | 5 hours ago

Even if you actually believed this was true, Nico had absolutely nothing to do with the Mavs landing Flagg

Thalesrlima

3 | 4 hours ago

If you traded luka and it wasn’t for shai, wemby or jokic there’s not even an argument to be made that you won the trade

0utwest | Bucks

2 | 4 hours ago

Bait used to be believable

TheStorm007 | Raptors

1 | 2 hours ago

You genuinely play Roblox? lol

DamnZodiak | Toronto Huskies

1 | 2 hours ago

Yeah Cooper Flagg could turn out to be anything! He could even be Luka!

siggyjack | Nuggets Bandwagon

294 | 7 hours ago

Now do both of their BMI’s for that month

Nico

berrytree198

51 | 3 hours ago

Luka is actually looking amazing lately he’s got that break up body going

cav63 | Clippers

9 | an hour ago

Lukas BMI and PPG combined cannot exceed 80. The split however is up to him

kingjacoblear | Lakers

1 | 7 minutes ago

Can’t wait for final form 1 BMI, 79 ppg Skeluka Magic

ThinkSoftware | Hawks

6 | 3 hours ago

How many championships did each win that month?

Exactly

-Nico

1psithur3 | Kings

118 | 7 hours ago

Did you know the Luka trade was bad guys? Who would’ve thought.

ActSoggy84 | Lakers

55 | 7 hours ago

If only some other team could’ve drafted him to prevent all this nonsense…dammit Phoenix!

1psithur3 | Kings

39 | 7 hours ago

Yeah crazy that Luka was the 2nd pick. We didn’t have a 1st that year unfortunately!

Dongsquad420BlazeIt | LAL

20 | 5 hours ago

The Marvin Bagley draft thread is one of the most “aged like wine” threads in reddit history

Lobster_fest | Supersonics

13 | 5 hours ago

Just went through it and Holy moly there are some RANCID takes.

McCuz | Lakers

9 | 5 hours ago

I remember following that draft, before lottery results were out, kings had a one of a kind poster u/KingsSelectDoncic2nd that said he had a prophecy.

He predicted exactly how the pick lottery will go, down to a coin toss. PHX takes Ayton, Kings take Luka. Prophecy went that Kings finaly become an NBA dynasty or something.

Me as a Luka fan since Madrid times, was 100% Kings are my NBA destination after I saw lottery results that the dude predicted perfectly. We all knew PHX is taking Ayton, and the only logical thing Kings could do at n.2 was Luka. It all made sense. I even got a bit invested into kings at that time myself. It was a done deal.

The user deleted his account a day after draft.

edit: he predicted Luka on Kings will get..

Rookie of the Year    
1x Finals MVP    
1x Regular Season MVP    
5x All-NBA 1st Team Selections    
Hall of Fame Induction

PapiShot | SAS

2 | an hour ago

He’s already accomplished 2 out of the 5. But sadly not for the Kings.

1psithur3 | Kings

5 | 4 hours ago

I was still like 16 then but I remember being a huge believer in Bagley before the draft. Luka was my favorite prospect at the time but I was so convinced Bagley was also going to be a star.

Yeesh.

AFonziScheme

3 | 4 hours ago

Can you imagine a world where Luka was playing in California and Bagley was playing for Dallas?

rednaxer | West

3 | 4 hours ago

People laugh now but there are current media pundits who think like the Kings GM at the time - 4D chess to their MVP takes lol

Dm-me-a-gyro | Spurs

2 | 5 hours ago

Link?

Celtic_Legend | Celtics

4 | 4 hours ago

/r/nba/comments/8swpmi/2018_draft_2_pick_marvin_bagley_iii_duke/

kings/comments/8swpod/official_thread_with_the_2nd_overall_pick_in_the/

edit: /u/peanutbutter1236 : “Good pick I think. he’ll be solid /r/NBA doesn’t know shit”

/u/jules2017 : “Can’t wait to look back on this thread and see how many people are wrong”

This comment from a banned user: We will. This sub has been on Doncic’s dick for the last year. Can’t wait for everyone to eat their words on Bagley

/u/Lineman72T : “I know it seems like /r/kings and /r/nba all wanted Doncic, but I’m good with this pick”

Sorry I gave you so many notifications, reddit won’t let me link the kings sub lol

Lineman72T | Kings

5 | 4 hours ago

Hey, in my defense…

Yeah I got nothing. Huge swing and miss on me thinking Bagley would be anything more than taking up a roster spot

loveracity | Spurs

5 | 4 hours ago

Good for you. It takes a big person to admit when we’re wrong. Even on meaningless platforms like Reddit

Dm-me-a-gyro | Spurs

1 | 4 hours ago

Thanks dog

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1 | 4 hours ago

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Celtic_Legend | Celtics

2 | 4 hours ago

then there’s /u/MelonElbows with the best, most ice cold take: “From what I’m gathering, both kids have a high ceiling, but Doncic was safer and almost a guarantee not to bust, while Bagley seems like there’s a much higher bust potential compared to Doncic. But for all of the accolades he’s received like you said, I can’t imagine why the Kings wouldn’t choose him instead? MVP of the Euroleague at 19 has gotta be a higher ceiling than Bagley right?”

MelonElbows | Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

After all these years I can’t believe he ended up on my team!

Answer70 | Rockets

2 | 4 hours ago

The 2nd pick is cursed. It has so many busts.

Jalen Green is kind of on his way there too.

nefnaf | Celtics

3 | 4 hours ago

Hey don’t disrespect Evan Turner like that

MildlyExtremeNY

2 | 3 hours ago

My #2 favorite NBA conspiracy theory is that the league wanted Luka in LA, and Cooper Flagg was the real trade piece, not AD.

DarkKnightCometh | Lakers

1 | 12 minutes ago

If that’s what you took from this, you probably took the short bus to school

Zealousideal_Bug7390 | Pistons

113 | 7 hours ago

Nico has to be on a very short list of worst GMs ever in any of the major American Sports leagues.

b17b20 | Nuggets

46 | 6 hours ago

I think he would still be on list even in any sport in the world

mioraka | Raptors

4 | 2 hours ago

The only reason we don’t say that is because we don’t know anything about other sports leagues.

But after thinking it through, unless there are multiple GMs who sold their entire roster into human trafficking, it’s hard to beat Nico in being the absolute worst.

Actually i just asked GPT for the worst GM in history of any sport, found out GPT didn’t know the Luka trade LOL.

So it gave me whole bunch of candidates for the worst, and after I told GPT about the trade, it just confirmed nothing else in history of sports even compares.

Due-Fun-489

18 | 5 hours ago

Is turning a young championship level team immediately into a lottery team bad?

Classic_Reference_92

52 | 7 hours ago

Luka Doncic has more 40 point games as a Laker than AD had in his whole Lakers career

Room_Temp_Coffee | Lakers

18 | 5 hours ago

I don’t even have a hypothetical for how AD could have made the equivalent defensive impact lol

nahs | Clippers

5 | 4 hours ago

He’d have to be wemby on the defensive end

Kanyetothesouthwest | Celtics

1 | an hour ago

He’s about to pass LeBron too

IntelligentAd5460 | Grizzlies

41 | 7 hours ago

nico really bet that luka would just be washed after the calf injury huh

Agreeable_Cattle_691 | Mavericks

57 | 7 hours ago

Probably would have been if Luka didn’t use his own medical team and went with what Nico and his goons wanted

Ok_Turn6757 | Lakers

15 | 6 hours ago

poor DLive man

Shot_Bank_5843

17 | 7 hours ago

There were people here who after Luka’s first two games with Lakers said he will never score 30 again.

OsapNaril

6 | 5 hours ago

That is the reason Luka was chunky. Nico failed to realize that

PML3107 | Celtics

33 | 7 hours ago

The WWE never had a storyline as blatantly fake and rigged as this trade

ositola | Lakers

4 | 4 hours ago

Three most overused words in this sub

Fraud

Rigged

Flop

Statalyzer

7 | 3 hours ago

Yep. But also:

Cooked

Merchant.

here_for_the_lols | Thunder

25 | 7 hours ago

Nico Harrison’s jobs: 0

maverick1127

8 | 5 hours ago

Please stop bringing it up. No one on here wanted it to happen. Some of us are trying to heal and these posts keep ripping the scab. Send that shit to Nico.

1psithur3 | Kings

5 | 4 hours ago

It just isn’t a productive conversation, like…AD isn’t even on your team anymore. I mean it’s going to be regurgitated until the end of time unfortunately, but at least you guys cut your losses already.

CountOff | Pistons

8 | 7 hours ago

No fair

Now I need a cherry picked advanced statistic to make me feel better

sgtpepperslaststand | Cavaliers

7 | 7 hours ago

An Anthony Davis Mavs jersey gotta be the most cursed jersey of alltime.

Beautiful_Ninja | Nets

6 | 7 hours ago

Jets Aaron Rodgers jersey.

royallex

5 | 4 hours ago

Unlike AD, Rodgers did end up playing a whole season with the Jets, as awful as it went

TheSmokedSalmon420 | Cavaliers

6 | 7 hours ago

Who could have seen this coming

VanGrants

3 | 3 hours ago

come on man lmao

Western-Election-997 | Lakers

1 | 7 hours ago

What’s AD doing these days and where are the people on /nba saying “actually Mavs won the trade”

mizesus | NBA

2 | 7 hours ago

Lol it keeps getting worse and worse it seems.

Iceman-Cometh_18

1 | 6 hours ago

Stop disrespecting top 75 greatest all time player AD

DefeatedByPoland

1 | 3 hours ago

The only thing that would make me forget about this dumb ass trade is if the Lakers can get Kyrie somehow.

Watching Luka and Kyrie literally got me interested in the NBA

Primary-Paint-1716 | Timberwolves

1 | 2 hours ago

Avert your eyes, Mavs fans

father_torque

1 | an hour ago

Shit I have that many points for the Mavs.

Kind-Let5666 | Lakers

1 | an hour ago

However much hate Nico is getting at any given moment in time is not enough

AmazingWorldOf

1 | 7 hours ago

I think it’s safe to say the league wanted Luka on the lakers an the mavs getting flagg in return. But if it wasn’t rigged I’m pissed that Nico salvaged something

Skylightt

21 | 7 hours ago

The Mavs wouldn’t have even been in the lottery if Kyrie/AD didn’t go down for the season. It wasn’t a conspiracy. He’s just stupid.

laymanmovies | Nuggets

17 | 6 hours ago

Genuinely get frustrated with this conspiracy because it’s not true and lets Nico off the hook for being a massive dumbass. Never forget what he did. This is Dallas’s Alamo.

Sartheking | Warriors

6 | 5 hours ago

This is my frustration as well lol. People don’t seem to believe that NBA executives might just be that arrogant. When Nico traded Luka, it’s not like the plan was to tank, they were trying to compete and then won a play in game and lost the second one which is the reason they were in the lottery. He and Dumont fell ass backwards into Flagg.

Ferngulley26

4 | 6 hours ago

All of Texas’s Alamo tbh

flowerboyinfinity | Pacers

2 | 4 hours ago

And people think the other 28 owners were just happy as can be to help the Lakers and Mavs lmao. As if Balmer would be oaky with that

catperson77789 | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

They were one win away from heading into the playoffs as well lol

reddevilgus19

0 | 6 hours ago

Yeah but AD wasn’t fat so you need to count that too.

beatrailblazer | Trail Blazers

0 | 5 hours ago

Didn’t AD only play like 14 games?

loveracity | Spurs

0 | 4 hours ago

But defense wins championships /s

funghi2 | Raptors

0 | an hour ago

Nico is such a fall guy lol. This was the most corrupt trade in sports history.

brnccnt7

-1 | 4 hours ago

What’s their ring count though

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-2 | 7 hours ago

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rocket_beer | Celtics

3 | 7 hours ago

Dammit

Where is the chlorine?

Definately_Fake | Bulls

-6 | 5 hours ago

AD is injured though. What a dumbass comparison.

_Indeed_I_Am_

11 | 4 hours ago

Only if you don’t consider availability as the best ability

DefeatedByPoland

6 | 3 hours ago

That’s kind of the point

Trading your star away for a frequently injured dude who ends up frequently injured on your team as well

insane 4d chess

Anthony Davis’ Mavericks career: 587 PTS, Luka Doncic in March: 558 PTS.