For Harrison, winning just one title without Dončić won't do. He is all in, cards to the center of the table, certain he will prevail.

A team with a drastically reduced championship window — that’s what happens when you send a 25-year-old superstar to LA in exchange for a 31-year-old —

The Dallas Mavericks are still the most polarizing team of the trade deadline, and moves have been made since they dealt Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Dallas Mavericks made arguably one of the biggest draft-day trades in 2018 when they acquired Luka Doncic from the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for Trae Young. In just a couple of years, Doncic blossomed into a superstar and gave Mavericks fans hope of winning another NBA Championship after 2011.

Nico Harrison was a relatively unknown name on Friday. Now, he'll always be known as the general manager who traded Luka Doncic.

Dallas Mavericks fans aren’t sitting quietly after watching their franchise make irrevocable moves ahead of the NBA trade deadline on Thursday. In one of the most stunning trades in league history, Dallas sent Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three-team swap on Sunday,

After hearing criticisms over his conditioning in Dallas, Doncic gets a chance to learn from the hardest-working superstar in sports.

The Dallas Mavericks remain the most polarizing team of the trade deadline, and several moves were since they dealt Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers. The trade was that groundbreaking, though.

Cato reported, "There has been belief, which multiple team and league sources expressed to me over the past months long before this trade, that Harrison does not have a long-term desire to remain in his current role as general manager."

Let’s set the record straight. The Luka Doncic trade was not a basketball move for the Mavericks. Premise #1: the Mavs trading Luka, at 25 years old 1 of the top 3 players in the world, to the Lakers in return for broken down 32 year old Anthony “Street Clothes” Davis makes no sense as a basketball move.