This here.
They were clearly worried about dude's conditioning, which is why they kept delaying the offer on that supermax extension. They said people in the front office said Luka wasn't willing to "really do what it would take" to commit to the team for a whole season. So they did what they could to save that $345M.
That poster doesn't know WTF they're talking about and that goes for anyone else who tries to regugitate that bullshyt.
If the [new] owners had their time again and didn't fall for Nico's nonsense, they never would've traded Luka away.
They've lost millions upon millions in revenue: "
dwindling crowds, plummeting merchandise sales and sponsors severing ties with the franchise in the wake of the trade". Along with the fact they'll be paying AD 60m a season over the next three years, and he couldn't get them to the playoffs last season and the Mavs won't be making the playoffs this season.
Paying Luka the supermax would only be marginally more than what they're having to pay AD over the next 3 years.
They would make more money giving Luka the supermax than paying AD. They've lost money in the short term and long term trading Luka.
Marinate on that.