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The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
They have a 10-year runway now that they didn't have two months ago. I mean... They know.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Yeah, because look, I have not been at every home game. And I was actually one of the games where there were a lot of fan ejections. I actually wasn't at that one in person. So I didn't get to experience that firsthand. But yeah, you knew last night was going to be a thing where it was arena wide. It's one thing when there's two, three, four, five individual fans that
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
you know, could be, you know, spotted and, you know, I guess dealt with, but, you know, last night, what was, you know, they weren't going to do anything. They couldn't do anything. You know, again, Nico Harrison is in the tunnel between the two benches. He obviously he that's where he's been watching every game with security.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
You know, outside the arena, there was a lot of security when I got there early. And, you know, there's like the canine unit. You don't necessarily... You don't see that on a typical regular season game. But, look, this is a heartbroken fan base. And they, like... You have to live here to understand how beloved Luka is as a player. And, you know, Disney wouldn't have taken this script.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Like, Dirk Nowitzki plays 21 seasons, the NBA record. The last season of his career is Luka's first season. He literally passed the torch. Like, it just never happens like that. And Luka... He's like Dirk's little brother and love to that level. And then there's the younger generation of fans like my son who didn't get to see Dirk. I mean, Luca is their Dirk.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I remember the first game the Mavs played after the trade and I just parked my car and the first thing I saw was a family of four two young children jumping out of the backseat and they're, they're both wearing Luca jerseys and Luke is not there anymore. And it's like, you realize every kid in this city, Luca is their favorite player. I mean, there is no cowboy that comes close to him.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Zach Lowe. Great to see you, my friend. I am... the least morning person you know. But when the Zach Lowe bat signal hits the phone, you got to figure out how to show up. So it's great to be with you, man. Great to see you and great to be with you.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Like it's just, it's,
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
It's pain. Pain.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I mean, other than Patrick Dumont at the end, I've heard that there was some level of pushback. Me too. That's why I'm asking within the Nico Harrison cabinet, but none of it strong enough to stop this. And I, You know, one of the things I wrote about, you know, at the start of this week, Sunday and Monday, I put out, you know, a two part, I've written like six deep dives on the trade already.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And, you know, I don't think every single one of my readers love it. I'm sure there is some level of fatigue, but it's like my, my answer to that is this is the craziest trade in NBA history. And I'm uniquely placed to cover it. I'm going to keep covering it.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Like I think any NBA fan is fascinated by the dynamics here, because again, you never see a 25 year old generational talent who is not asking to be traded and get traded. So I do think there was some level of debate within those walls. The exact extent, I can't sit here and tell you that I know exactly, but one of the big things I wrote about in Sunday's piece was
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Nico Harrison, in a very short time after the sale, he amassed just an amazing amount of power and control. Mark Cuban said he was going to have basketball control. I'm sure you were skeptical when you heard that. Everybody was. There was tons of skepticism around the league. But there's a difference between... Okay, so maybe...
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
You don't believe that, but I never imagined that he would be pushed completely to the side where Patrick Dumont doesn't even run this past him. And to me, Patrick Dumont has, he bears a huge responsibility in this because basically this is the trade Nico wanted and Patrick Dumont approved it with no NBA network to run this past anyone. He did not, they didn't tell Cuban beforehand.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And he didn't even ask Dirk Nowitzki. Like to me, pick up the phone and at least you, you do have a relationship with Dirk if you're Patrick Dumont, but that was Patrick Dumont's NBA network after a year was Cuban and Dirk. And that's pretty much it. Ask Dirk Nowitzki, you know, get a second opinion from somewhere.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I think all NBA owners have a level of counsel, you know, outside of their own walls. Like it's just, Again, I've been writing and talking about nothing else for two months and change, and I remain as in disbelief as anyone.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
He's just – I'm not going to sit here and say he has no flaws, but with a talent like that, whatever the flaws and issues are, you run out every single ground ball trying to fix it. Did the Mavs do that? I don't think they can make that claim.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I, I, The Kevin Durant interest to me has been described as overstated. I've heard the same. I don't know that they're really trying to build a three-star construction. So I think they want a healthy Kyrie and a healthy AD to be the two-star foundation. But look, you covered a lot of ground there. And it's like they had options that they didn't take.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I actually understood if Anthony Davis is the guy you want and you feel like you have to keep this secret and you don't want to shop him because you're worried that you're going to lose Luca. If nothing happened, you know, if the trade falls through and now you have an unhappy superstar. I actually understood that part.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
But if you're going to deal with the Lakers, you if you're only going to deal with the Lakers, you have to get everything they have.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And if the Lakers say, we can't give you Austin Reeves for whatever reason, we can't give you both our first round picks for whatever reason, then you have to hang up the phone and believe if you guys had a close enough relationship to keep this thing secret to this point, The Lakers wouldn't have wanted it to come out that they had these talks.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
If the trade falls apart, they have to glue it back together with Anthony Davis. They would have been just as incentivized to keep the fact that this was ever discussed secret. Jeannie Buss spoke at length on the Rich Eisen show about how we had to keep this thing secret because it can destroy your team if it gets out.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
So the Mavericks could have walked away when the Lakers didn't give them everything. But more to your point, Give him the Supermax. If you want to trade him, sign him to the Supermax and then hold your auction. And then he is signed forever. Every team in the league would then inquire, bid, see if they can get involved. Teams wouldn't have the, the, the flight risk is gone.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
You know, we've seen it. We've seen Damian Lillard and Kevin Durant, you know, Kevin Durant after major injury, we've seen Lillard on a super max. What he, you know, all the, all the talk was, well, he, what if he, what if he has breakdowns like Embiid?
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
What if he has an injury history like Kawhi Leonard, you know, look at the other examples at the worst, sign him to the super max and then trade him for a position of strength. I think that's to me, if you're determined to do this, that's the move. But obviously, I'm with you. He's too good to trade. We're reaching to try to make, he is too young and too good to trade.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And if there are issues, if there are problems, try harder to fix them. Do not trade him.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I mean, the injury obviously makes it much more complicated. Without the injury, I mean, he had a massive amount of leverage. And I think he still has quite a bit of leverage because, as you saw, I mean, you know, AD's performance, I think we do have to factor in that the Lakers doubled him pretty strongly.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And... The Mavs have no guard play. Like last night, Spencer Dinwiddie, who's led them in minutes this season, that was not the plan for Spencer Dinwiddie to lead this team in minutes. He leads them in minutes played? Last time I looked, I mean, it might have changed, I guess, in the last two, three days, but at last check,
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
um they took spencer dinwiddie out of the starting lineup nazi marshall was their only source of playmaking they have no guards like as we're taping this this is the magical date of april 10th when the maps finally get to convert brandon williams from a two-way i like that that kid's got some juice man he's been great he's been fantastic and you know
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
they are, they can't wait to get him back because you know, he ran out of games. He played too many games on his two way. So they had no playmaking whatsoever last night. I mean, their big worry last night going into the game beyond the fact that what is Luca going to do to us in this revenge scenarios? Can we get the ball to AD?
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Can we get, can we get the ball across half court and make an entry pass to them? I mean, with the personnel they have right now. So look, they desperately need Kyrie Irving. I think he's going to be resigned. You know, is it, you know, what, what the deal looks like. It's too early in the day to project that, but Kyrie Irving has been very happy in Dallas and, and,
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
You know, I can't sit here and say I have a 100% solid pulse on it, but everything we've seen from Kyrie Irving suggests that he wants to be here, wants to stay, and, I mean, they badly need him. I mean, they badly miss him. I guess, you know, you could ask the what if,
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
If Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis were healthy post-trade, how much would the noise be reduced because they would still be a competitive team? I mean, that's the other thing. The trade is the trade. Separate from that, there have been so many injuries and so many own goals, just so many mistakes in terms of messaging what they've done.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Like, it's just been one disaster after another, and that's what led to last night where you hear – you know, fans rooting for a guy on the other team and fire Nico chance every, every dead ball.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Thank you. Thank you.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Thank you. Thank you.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Thank you. Thank you.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
just how different it was from any of these occasions of what we expect, because, you know, this always happens, right? Like there are transactions in the off season schedule comes out in August. And what do we do? We, you know, we circle the return games for, you know, player X switches team. When's the first time he's going to play his old team, but like this Luca coming back to Dallas and,
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
It is his city. The whole world saw it last night. The levels to which he is loved. The one certainty we knew last night was... that he was going to be showered with love, but it was even more love than I was anticipating.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And you said the whole first quarter, I think he had 14 in the first quarter, but honestly, I spent as much time in the first quarter on my phone, watching all the clips because, you know, I'm, I'm to the far right of the Lakers bench and it was on the jumbotron, but it's like, I kept, I just could not stop watching the,
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
the emotion and how hard it hit him and i had heard beforehand that you know he knew he was going to be emotional but i think he was even more emotional than he expected and yeah i mean trey young said it as well as anyone you watch that and you know he didn't want to leave he did not want to be traded he thought he was going to be a mav for his whole career and
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
has a level of connection to the city and that franchise that, you know, he's, I think he's still processing the shock of that all being broken. But then once he got past the emotion, just a maestro performance of surgical excellence. I mean, just, he was brilliant.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Was there? No, I totally agree. That's, that was exactly, that was another one of the big takeaways that just, he was, I think a lot of people expected this outward fury from him. And, you know, we saw just a hint of it in the game in Los Angeles when he, you know, yelled in the bench area. But there really wasn't... That's what I'm saying.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
He was very composed and measured and surgical in the way he just shredded their defense. I mean, he forced the Mavs to play a lot less defensively of the too big approach in the second half because 31 points by halftime, six threes. I mean, you know, as well as anyone, when Luke is making his three, forget about it. Like he is pretty much unguardable and just, there was a little bit of chirping.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I remember at max Christie and, you know, after one late three on a step back, but yeah, I mean, he was not, you know, when he walked off the court, when, you know, JJ Redick left him out there after a timeout. That was awesome, by the way. Beautiful choreography from JJ Redick.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And so, you know, Luka takes the foul, gets to walk off, and, you know, gets his standing ovation. He did have to pass where Nico Harrison was in the tunnel. I would love to know if he did spot Nico Harrison if, you know, as he was clapping, was there any, you know, only he knows. But, yeah, I mean, there was just no, he didn't do it with, you know,
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Remember him just, you know, draining the three-over goal barrier and screaming it, you know, screaming all the way back down court. You know, there wasn't any of that. And he just, he soaked up the love. 31 points in the first half. LeBron took over in the fourth and he let it happen.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And then he got to tack on that crazy reverse layup, put the game away, put a beautiful bow on it, walk off, get his standing ovation. And then after he's taken out the loudest fire Nico chance of the night. So, I mean, he pretty much, got to play out a script that he would have loved had somebody told him how it was going to go beforehand.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
You know, there have been games where he has been out pregame and, you know, for just chit-chat. The only formal interaction with him was the press conference in Cleveland the morning after the trade. He was in the tunnel the whole game where he always is, but, you know, the fire Nico chance last night were on a level we have not heard.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I mean, they, if four seconds into the game, Lakers go to the line and it starts literally 1156 on the clock and it's starting.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Yeah, no, it's funny. I remember early on in this whole saga, Ryan Russillo brought up Seattle moving. And that might be the best comparison because... in so many of these cases, again, you know, I was a Laker beat writer when Shaquille O'Neal left the magic kingdom to come to Hollywood. I was obviously there when Kevin Durant played in Oklahoma city.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
The first time I, I wasn't actually there when LeBron played in Cleveland first time with Miami, but I was covering the league, but in all these cases, you know, the player always chooses it. You know, we just, we don't see a team choose this path and, And, you know, my turn, I've been calling it the 77 stages of grief.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
And obviously that's because Luca's number is 77, but it's also meant to convey what you just said. This isn't, there's no closure last night. This is not over. It's such a long path back to get to a point where the Mavs are going to be celebrated and embraced. And I don't know how long it's going to take. And I don't know what it's going to take, but it's, There's the playoffs are coming up here.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
The Mavericks have, you know, the Mavericks will be in the play-in. Do they win one play-in game? Do they win two? Do they maybe sneak into the first, you know, they're not beating Oklahoma city without Kyrie Irving. So let's say in the best case scenario, they win a couple of play-in games. They're not getting past the first round.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Mavericks fans have to watch Luca now go to the playoffs with the Lakers. What happens when he has a game like last night in the playoffs? What happens if the Lakers make a run in these playoffs? I mean, there is just so much... I hate to say it because obviously I live in Dallas and I'm surrounded by Mavs fans. I'm surrounded by people who love this guy.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I've got a teenager in my own house who is an unabashed Luka Doncic fan. It's not fun to watch what Mavericks fans are going through because they're The only trade I can somewhat compare it to, and this is, again, a very personal thing, my first year covering the league when Atlanta traded Dominique.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Now, Dominique was much older, 11 years in Atlanta at that point in his 30s, but Dominique Wilkins was the Hawks. And he was traded to the Clippers in similar fashion without warning when the Hawks were leading the East. I do think there are some parallels there. And again, I'm bringing my own biases to this because I covered that firsthand and I covered this firsthand. But there is no comp.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
There is no comp for this.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
Well, there's one, you know, Laura Beth Seeger was between Rob Palenka and Bill Duffy. She's Luca's business manager, right? Chief brand officer, business manager, and maybe the most influential member of Team Luca. So obviously she's been in Dallas for a long time, worked very closely with Dirk Nowitzki, worked with Mike Badano. She's worked very closely with the Cowboys. And, you know, she...
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
When Mark Cuban was in charge, she was essentially treated as part of the organization. So I think it's safe to say that it was, you know, her influence that landed them there. But, yeah, I mean, they are right in front of me. Team Luke is right in front of me. His dad is across the court. And, yeah, I mean, again, there's so many – That was a lot to take in, man. That was a lot.
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
They did not hide their clapping, cheering. There's enough distance. There's kind of like a main thoroughfare between us. You're not close enough to – you're not close enough. Are you suggesting I would eavesdrop on their conversation? Yes. Unbelievable. Unbelievable assertion from you. Yeah, no. If I could have, I would have, but I was not – I wasn't that close. Did you –
The Zach Lowe Show
Luka’s Emotional Night in Dallas: Scenes From Last Night’s Lakers-Mavs Game With Marc Stein. Plus, More NBA Awards With Kirk Goldsberry.
I did see Rob Palenka before the game. And yeah, you know, the Lakers in general. Just anyone you encounter, and after the game especially, I spoke to so many people with the Lakers. A, they were just in awe of the way Luka got past the emotion and then delivered a performance like that. But they're pinching themselves. They know what they got.