NBA: 2024-2025 Season

[JohnBM01]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Before the National Basketball Association begins with the 2025 part of the 2024-2025 NBA season, let's give some Standings Updates. Where are your favorite teams? Find out here:

* = current Play-In team

--- STANDINGS UPDATE (as of: January 1, 2025) ---
ATLANTIC: Boston (24-9), NY (23-10), PHI (13-17), BKN (12-20), TOR (7-26)
CENTRAL: Cleveland (29-4), MIL (17-14), IND (16-18), CHI (15-18), DET (14-18)
SOUTHEAST: Orlando (20-14), ATL (18-15), MIA (16-14), CHA (7-25), WSH (5-25)
CURRENT EAST PLAYOFF: CLE, BOS, NY, ORL, MIL, ATL, MIA*, IND*, CHI*, DET*

NORTHWEST: Oklahoma City (27-5), DEN (18-13), MIN (17-15), POR (11-21), UTA (7-24)
PACIFIC: Los Angles Clippers (19-14), LAL (18-14), GS (16-16), PHX (15-17), SAC (14-19)
SOUTHWEST: Memphis (23-11), HOU (21-11), DAL (20-13), SA (17-16), NO (5-28)
CURRENT WEST PLAYOFF: OKC, MEM, HOU, DAL, DEN, LAC, LAL*, MIN*, SA*, GS*

The 2024 part of the season is done. Make 2025 great!

 

[Tornado]

 

[JohnBM01]

Methinks you posted this in the wrong thread, yes? Don't worry- I've done that several times in my long time on GTPlanet.

 

[Omnis]

I really wish @JohnBM01 were the one posting this, but omg the Lakers just traded the Mavs Anthony Davis et al for Luka Doncic et al.

 

[McLaren]

I hate every word I read more about this trade. Oh my god, Nico Harrison needs to be fired immediately & the Aldesons can piss off back where they came from. This front office just completely forgot what happened when the team let go a generational point guard in Nash & wasted Dirk's years trying to "win now".

I am so... unbelievably upset about this.

 

[Blitz24]

I hate every word I read more about this trade. Oh my god, Nico Harrison needs to be fired immediately & the Aldesons can piss off back where they came from. This front office just completely forgot what happened when the team let go a generational point guard in Nash & wasted Dirk's years trying to "win now".

I am so... unbelievably upset about this.

How did they trade an entire team? Poor Utah.

 

[Tornado]

lol what the hell did I just wake up to

 

[Joey D]

Man, that's the kind of deal I would expect a Detroit team to make because we're built on all-stars well past their prime.

 

[BKGlover]

I hope the fans aren't hostile to AD, but give management all the scorn and derision.

I also expect relocation rumors to begin.

 

[Spacegoat]

This has got to be one of the worst trades in history, right? Giving up a Luka for only one first round and a washed up AD? Insanity.

 

[Tornado]

 

[kjb]

I can't believe this trade was just about Luka not committing to being in shape. This reminds of when the Knicks got rid of KP7. I believe that Luka did ot said something to someone in leadership that pissed them off. You don't get rid of a talent like Luka the way they did if there wasn't some type of incident(s) behind the scenes to lead to something like this. I guess we'll find out in the coming days and weeks

 

[McLaren]

I can't believe this trade was just about Luka not committing to being in shape. This reminds of when the Knicks got rid of KP7. I believe that Luka did ot said something to someone in leadership that pissed them off. You don't get rid of a talent like Luka the way they did if there wasn't some type of incident(s) behind the scenes to lead to something like this. I guess we'll find out in the coming days and weeks

The reports about conditioning are hard to believe when the guy traded for has health issues himself (I do like AD, though). The comments about "buying in" to the culture or "building to win now & in the future" by Nico are nonsense when Luka was the guy who just took us to a Finals appearance & secured a Western Conf. MVP trophy, or the fact Luka is a 25 year old, start-of-his-prime player being replaced to build around a 32 year old Kyrie Irving & a 31 year old Anthony Davis. Again, I like these guys, but there's not much of a future there if Nico doesn't come out of the next 3-4 years without at least 2 Championships to back up that "win now & in the future" comment.

This is assuming Kyrie does not exercise his Player Option in the off-season, therefore costing Dallas another All-Star caliber player; Davis & Thompson aren't carrying this team to a Championship and I don't see how the FO will convince any other major stars to come here with the knowing they could be traded away for 60 cents on the dollar just like that. Even if reports come out that Luka was an issue, this was a bad trade. More picks or players should've been included. More teams should've been notified than just a behind the scenes deal with LA to benefit us. Nico has made a lot of solid moves for us, and then to think this was a deal to be made does not pass the smell test.

Personally, I think money's involved based on the comments of "concern" about Luka's $345 million supermax. Our owners can afford it, they dumped over a third of that on the last election cycle alone, but this trade conveniently got the team back under the luxury tax & their plans to build a casino in Texas look to have faltered as our government recently doubled down on no gambling in Texas anytime soon. Some fans think they're set on tanking the franchise so they can move it to Vegas, but I'm not on that train. TMU, the NBA wants a Vegas team relatively soon & the Mavs are leased to the AAC til' 2031.

 

[kjb]

The reports about conditioning are hard to believe when the guy traded for has health issues himself (I do like AD, though). The comments about "buying in" to the culture or "building to win now & in the future" by Nico are nonsense when Luka was the guy who just took us to a Finals appearance & secured a Western Conf. MVP trophy, or the fact Luka is a 25 year old, start-of-his-prime player being replaced to build around a 32 year old Kyrie Irving & a 31 year old Anthony Davis. Again, I like these guys, but there's not much of a future there if Nico doesn't come out of the next 3-4 years without at least 2 Championships to back up that "win now & in the future" comment.

This is assuming Kyrie does not exercise his Player Option in the off-season, therefore costing Dallas another All-Star caliber player; Davis & Thompson aren't carrying this team to a Championship and I don't see how the FO will convince any other major stars to come here with the knowing they could be traded away for 60 cents on the dollar just like that. Even if reports come out that Luka was an issue, this was a bad trade. More picks or players should've been included. More teams should've been notified than just a behind the scenes deal with LA to benefit us. Nico has made a lot of solid moves for us, and then to think this was a deal to be made does not pass the smell test.

Personally, I think money's involved based on the comments of "concern" about Luka's $345 million supermax. Our owners can afford it, they dumped over a third of that on the last election cycle alone, but this trade conveniently got the team back under the luxury tax & their plans to build a casino in Texas look to have faltered as our government recently doubled down on no gambling in Texas anytime soon. Some fans think they're set on tanking the franchise so they can move it to Vegas, but I'm not on that train. TMU, the NBA wants a Vegas team relatively soon & the Mavs are leased to the AAC til' 2031.

Thanks for the info I am just trying to figure out a justification for this trade. This a trade that always happens for the Lakers. I am surprised the NBA let it go through (but not really) To me this trade makes no sense unless you look at it to Dallas not wanting to pay the Supermax. Then the question becomes why? Are they worried that they would sign him to an extension and be surpassed by OKC, Hou, SA in the next 5 years? I don't know.