Stephen A. reflects on the Luka Doncic trade…ONE YEAR LATER 👀 | First Take
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith reflects on the Dallas Mavericks’ trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis.
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Rob pelinka is not good at this team building thing
Lakers won’t be winning a championship for a long time.
Can someone please give this man a job.
LAL – a team without a bench won't win a championship and has no chance in the playoffs. Gianis should wait and replace LBJ from 26/27.
The trade is still meaningless until LeBron leaves/retires. Its redundant to have them both on the same team.
They said people arent making 3’s then proceeds to show mostly luka missing when those shots were literally heat checks after he made 2 in a row or just shots to get a 2-1 possession or just in of the qrtr f it shots. Meanwhile you make sure not to show bron airballing and missing wide open 3’s. The perks of being the manufactured goat i guess.
If Nico wasn't being controlled by the NBA ownership group to carry it out for ratings, if it really was about replacing Luka for defense, he would have traded Luka to Boston for Jaylen Brown + picks.
Reaves not injured just fake injury lol hes doesnt want to play before tradeline
Luka/jokic/sengun 3 players the world ignores 1 side of the ball for and fans think them being the “hub” on offense is necessary the hockey assist means almost as much as getting the assist
Liberal republican people own EPSTIEN copyrights
LeBron should have compiled Stephen A. boxing lowlights with his baseball pitching lowlights.
The biggest problem is the lack of roster consistency throughout these past several seasons. It's impossible to go all the way in today's League without consistency and chemistry. Period. Along side many other problems they have
Luka is an average player. Super star offensively on ball, mediocre defensively and mediocre off ball. He’s not a championship caliber player
They need to clean all the salary cap they can and built around Luka next summer!!! Go strongly after Kessler and WATSON, re-sign Rui for less money to come off the bench, and re-sign AR for 30 mill/year tops!!! Or agree to a S&T if he wants a max deal!!!
There's gonna be 29 teams going home. Not just the Lakers. Because only one team is winning in the end. And it probably won't be yours 🫵🏾.
12 for 42 from 3point is the reason I don't watch NBA anymore
Problem is the Lakers need to trade Lebron cuz they ain’t going nowhere with that dead weight. He dead weight, taking most of the salary cap. They need to build around Luka and Austin and move on from Lebron and get some assets.
SAS doesn't watch basketball. He reads news.
Man the lakers suck
Lakers are 25th in defensive rating and 8th in offensive rating. Only 3.5 games behind the 2nd seed. Lakers are overachieving. Let’s just call it what it is. They won’t be title contenders until they’re close to top 10 in both. It’s pretty simple.
It’s the organizations job to build around their team’s best players. Clearly that’s a lack of defense. It’s not rocket science.
Hes right, Lakers traded for Luka with their future in mind. They dont have a proper Team. They tried to atleast fill some holes with the limited budget but Ayton and Smart arent good enough to fill those, which is to be expected. Reeves has been out for forever now and even if hes back they need some wings. Defense and 3 point shooting to spread the floor. Lebron just eats up too much cap space for the player he is atm. The dude is still a beast for a 41y old but its not worth the 52million dollars hes getting. They thing that clearly breaks their back is the noticable lack of defense but even when they defend ok/well they have horrible shooting percentages. Luka can make the passes of the century but if they cant convert on the free 3pointers its not winable against any team thats worth jackshit.
dumbSAS
Sad truth is. It’s better to trade away LeBron and reaves for picks and rotational players around Luka. He’s the star. He’s gonna hold the ball the most anyways. I would look at the magic around Dwight all those years. Put shooters around him and watch him flourish.
If the lakers never traded AD. It would be LeBron and a bunch of no names and ayton just chilling on the floor 😂😂😂 AD is injured. Reaves injured. Luka is helping this team so much but the lebron Stan’s love to blame Luka for everything and LeBron not once has given Luka and type of credit all season. 😂😂😂 can’t wait for LeBron to get out of dodge as a lakers fan. If we resign him I’m not buying my season tickets next season
Trade LeBron, get Reeves back from injury, and the problems are solved. LeBron’s salary is the biggest burden on this team.
Luka play better with Austin Reeve unfortunately not with Lebron ?
Mavs built a team around Luka and made the finals. Now since the trade, the lakers need to do the same and build around Luka. That’s how they’ll make the finals. And they are not built for Luka right now
Most basic take ever
Lakers need to get rid of all remnants of the Buss Family within thr organization. Rambis, Pelinka and Jeanie
This team is not good enough to compete and our GM and VP are rhe same person who cant find the players that Luka and Reaves need to compete just big name players
Lakers needs a center at 7',5"
They were better without LeBron
Stupid Luka is a franchise keeper. Lakers not thinking right😅😂
They still suck because they have LeBron and his son on the team. ESPN needs to stop telling us lies 😂😂😂😂😂 Steven A just gave a statistic on the lakers that they lead the league in giving up uncontested shotts, but he forgot to mention the main culprit is LeBron who never guards anyone 😂
LeBron took a bad 07 cavs team to finals, why can’t Luka take an average lakers team to the finals?
flagg isnt a pg…..imagine if he had a proper pg on the team like a luka….oh wait they did🤣
Nah really
SAS IS A BS HATER AS ALWAYS!!!! STATS HE CLAIME HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH LUKA, WHO WAS THE BEST DEFENDER, PASSER, REBOUNDER, SCORER AGAINST KNICKS … WHAT BS ARE TOU TALKING ABOUT AND BEING PAID FOR IT !?!?!?!??!?!? SOME COMPANIES HAVE MONEY TO BURN IN BS …. BRUH …. THIS IS WHY SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE SO HIGH … BRUH !!!!
When your PG has 3x the boards your Center has, something is not right.
Its a huge paradox, if Luka is top 3 player, lebron is still allstar level, austin is allstar or semi-allstar, and you have a cast of decent role players, how are you not at the top? maybe one of these presumptions just isnt true?
The lakers are not in a good position because they only have a few actual NBA players on their roster. Most of the guys should never see the court on a good team.
What position would the Lakers be in without Luka? They would be competing for last in the NBA. Stephen A is smoking something
Like magic said pelinka dont wana champ ring he is not bilding team around the Luka so…..no ring for the lakers
I’ll take the lakers serious when I see them increase DK mins if he’s still around , Jaxson Hayes needs to be involved more in the offense and defense . Jaxson Hayes even has a midrange jumper when he’s serious . Can they please get him more involved . Hachimura has taken a step back, definitely defensively