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My Hopeful Conspiracy Theory About the Insane Luka Doncic Trade
Please God, let this be true
As this is an article about sports, I have little hope that it will be read by many here; my two or three previous sports pieces have garnered roughly -5 reads combined. I don’t care. I have to purge the madness that happened a few nights ago from my brain or I will go insane, and writing about it is the only way I know to exorcise that basketball demon.
It’s likely that even non-sports fans have heard about the trade this past weekend that sent Dallas Mavericks superstar guard to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Lakers forward Anthony Davis. The trade has rightly been called the worst in sports history, if only for the ridiculously small amount the Mavericks received for one of the three best players in the world who is still in his prime. It makes the 60 guilders (roughly $24.00) worth of knives, axes, cloth, and other baubles the Algonquins got from the Dutch for Manhattan look like a fair exchange by comparison.
The deal simply makes no sense even though Luka can’t seem to stay in shape (let’s be honest: he’s fat), cries to the refs about fouls every game, and misses far too many games with injuries that would never have sidelined Mavs legend Dirk Nowitzki. Despite all of this, in his six-and-a-half seasons with Dallas he has…
