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.
Thu, 10 Apr 2025
Marc Stein gives Zach the inside story on Luka Doncic’s highly anticipated return to Dallas (0:48). He and Kirk Goldsberry then run down a slew of NBA awards (45:55), including Rookie of the Year (1:08:22), Coach of the Year (1:27:16), and Defensive Player of the Year (1:36:52). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What was the atmosphere like during Luka's return to Dallas?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
And if there are issues, if there are problems, try harder to fix them. Do not trade him.
What do you think happens with Kyrie Irving this summer contractually?
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.
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