The Los Angeles Lakers remain one of the biggest winners of the season to stop the biggest deal in NBA history.
Back in the 1950s, the Los Angeles Lakers have a rather unbroken lineage of legend. From Mikan to Jerry West, to Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul Jabber, Magic Johnson, and Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, LeBron James had a short break before he arrived in town, winning the most recent championship in 2020.
After James, the Lakers appeared to be breaking their advantage once more when Nico Harrison and the Dallas Mavericks presented the Lakers with Luka Donsic’s generational talent until the 2025 NBA trade deadline.
Among Lakers legends is Pogersol, who best remembers for playing six and a half seasons and winning two titles next to Bryant.
Gasol is the godfather of Bryant’s children, lifelong friends and his favorite teammates, and although he has even loved him to fans of purple and gold, he thinks Don Sic might be able to take the stars of his past.
When ESPN insider Shamscharania fired a social media post on the trade news, he knew he was changing the course of the league’s history. Fans thought he was hacked, players thought it was a joke, and Gasol was no exception.
“Clearly, first of all, surprise and shock” was Gasol’s first reaction when news broke that the Lakers were signing Don Sic.
“What actually happened is not traded at age 25.
Lakers general manager Rob Perinka was a personal friend of both Gasol and Harrison, and a plot has emerged that he was trying to help his friend without considering the team Nico Harrison was hired to lead.
The Mavericks landed Anthony Davis, the world’s top 15 talent, on a contract, but Donsic is a better player, six years younger than Davis.
When the dust settles into trade, no one except Harrison sees the Mavericks as the winner of the trade, and Gasol is no exception.
He brings excellent points and, naturally, suggests Donsic is the best young player in the NBA right now.
“If you say, hey, who would I choose to start a franchise in the league now?
Even without considering Davis’s gro caliber injury that suffered in his Mavericks debut, which he has been keeping his sidelines since then, the Lakers were labelled the biggest winner of the overall deadline, but the Mavericks were much worse than the team that failed nothing.
“From the Lakers’ perspective, you look pretty excited,” he said after completing Gasol, calling the deal a “big win.”