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 —

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.

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.

After the Luka Doncic and Mark Williams trades by the Lakers, Mavericks GM Nico Harrison has become public enemy No. 1 on social media.

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.

Kidd was unaware that Harrison was shopping Doncic. Harrison reportedly had nearly a month of dialogue with Los Angeles Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka about the move. Not once did he tell the coach he thinks he’s aligned with about what was in the works behind the scenes.

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

There are levels to it, and there are people that fit the culture and there’s people that come in and add to the culture,” Harrison said.

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.

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,

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.