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On the morning of Jan. 7, Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison
invited Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka to the Ascension Coffee in the
lobby of the Hotel Crescent Court, just a half-mile from American Airlines
Arena, to begin a similarly arduous, delicate trade conversation that would
jolt the rest of the NBA.

Nearly a month later, the Lakers and Mavericks pulled off perhaps the most
shocking trade in NBA history, trading 25-year-old perennial MVP contender,
Luka Doncic, for All-NBA big man, Anthony Davis, without so much as a peep
leaking out ahead of time.








Doncic sent a quick group text to his teammates but did not answer or return
Harrison's call informing him of the trade. Davis was home in Los Angeles,
texting congratulations to his teammates after they'd beaten the New York
Knicks on Saturday night. LeBron James was out to dinner in New York when he
got a call from Pelinka minutes before ESPN's Shams Charania broke news of
the trade. Kyrie Irving learned of the trade on social media while he was
undergoing treatment at the Mavericks hotel in Cleveland, where the team was
set to play against the Cavaliers on Sunday afternoon.


Doncic迅速在球隊群組中發送了一條簡訊給隊友，但並未接聽或回撥給Harrison告知他交

易消息的來電。

AD當時正在洛杉磯家中，週六晚上湖人擊敗尼克隊後，他正在給隊友發送祝賀簡訊。

LBJ當時正在紐約外出用餐，當ESPN記者Shams爆出交易消息的幾分鐘前，他接到了Pelinka

的來電。

Irving則是在獨行俠下榻的飯店接受治療時，通過社交媒體得知了這筆交易，而球隊正準

備於週日下午對陣騎士隊。


Executives from around the league were both furious and jealous that the
glitzy, star-driven Lakers had been the only team given an opportunity to bid
for Doncic's services.

"Unfathomable," one Western Conference executive told ESPN.

"I'm stunned," an Eastern Conference executive texted.


整個聯盟的高層們對此既憤怒又嫉妒，因為這支光鮮亮麗、以明星球員為核心的湖人隊，

竟然是唯一獲得機會競標Doncic的球隊。

「難以想像」 一位西區球隊高層告訴ESPN。

「我震驚了」 一位東區球隊高層在簡訊中表示。


Harrison decided early on, team sources said, that the best way to trade a
player of Doncic's caliber was to pick the trade that he wanted, rather than
open up the process, to avoid Doncic and his agent exerting their own
leverage. It would also avoid the crippling fan backlash that might influence
the deal.


球隊消息人士透露，Harrison早早便決定，交易像Doncic這種級別的球員，最好的方式就

是直接選擇他想要的交易，而不是公開競標。

這樣可以避免Doncic及其經紀人利用自身影響力施加壓力，同時也能減少可能影響交易的

嚴重球迷反彈。


Even the Utah Jazz, the third team that facilitated the transaction by
collecting two second-round picks for absorbing Jalen Hood-Schifino, didn't
know Doncic and Davis were a part of the deal until about an hour before it
was completed, league sources said. Even Jazz president Danny Ainge, who
hails from the Lakers' hated rival, the Boston Celtics, had about only 30
minutes notice, sources said, that Los Angeles was about to acquire Doncic to
be the new face of its franchise.

But by then it was too late to do much about it. NBA history was about to be
altered.




消息人士稱，就連爵士隊總裁Danny Ainge——這位來自湖人隊宿敵波士頓塞爾提克隊的


前高管——也只在洛杉磯湖人隊即將獲得Doncic並使其成為球隊新門面的消息前大約30分

鐘才得知。

但到那時，一切已為時已晚，NBA的歷史即將被改寫。


PELINKA AND HARRISON'S relationship dates to the summer of 2003, when both
were ambitious young executives who had earned the trust of a
then-25-year-old Kobe Bryant. Bryant had left his longtime agent Arn Tellem
in March 2002 and convinced Pelinka, then a junior executive at Tellem's
company SFX, to leave with him.






Over the next decade Pelinka and Harrison traveled the world together with
Bryant on official Nike business and joint family vacations. They were
members of Bryant's inner circle, and they leaned on each other when Bryant
tragically died in a helicopter crash in 2020.

All of which is prologue to why Harrison only felt comfortable discussing the
biggest gamble of his professional career with Pelinka.






"I understand the magnitude of it," Harrison said Sunday. "The easiest thing

for me to do is nothing, and everyone would praise me for doing nothing. But
we really believe in it. Time will tell if I'm right."


「我理解這其中的重要性」Harrison在週日說道。

「對我來說，最簡單的事情就是什麼都不做，而每個人都會因為我什麼都不做而讚揚我。

但我們真的相信這一點，時間會證明我是否正確。」


IN THE NEARLY four years since former Mavericks owner Mark Cuban lured him
away from Nike to come run the team, Harrison has studied Doncic closely.

While he admired Doncic's talent, spirit and competitiveness, team sources
said, Harrison had more doubts about Doncic than others in the organization
-- such as Cuban or Nowitzki -- did.




雖然他欣賞Doncic的天賦、精神和競爭力，但球隊消息人士透露，Harrison對Doncic的疑

慮比團隊中的其他人——如Cuban或Dirk更多。


The Mavericks' frustrations with Doncic's habits on and off the court were
well known in league circles. Head coach Jason Kidd frequently expressed
concerns publicly and directly with Doncic about his conditioning, weight
fluctuations and constant arguing with officials.

Doncic had mostly taken the criticism without complaint, but it never
resulted in a significant change in his habits.

"I mean, who gains weight during the season when you're playing 40 minutes a
game?" a team source vented to ESPN last year.


獨行俠對Doncic場內外習慣的不滿在聯盟中廣為人知。



Doncic大多毫無怨言地接受了這些批評，但這從未導致他的習慣有顯著改變。




If Doncic wasn't going to change his ways, the Mavericks figured they would
prod him by making changes around him. In August 2023, the team fired former
director of player health and performance Casey Smith, who has since been
hired by Jalen Brunson's New York Knicks. After last season, the Mavs fired
strength coach Jeremy Holsopple and manual therapist Casey Spangler. All
three had been with the team since before Doncic was drafted and had strong
relationships with him.

"They get rid of everybody I like," Doncic griped in recent months, one
source said.




尼克隊聘用。上賽季結束後，獨行俠解僱了力量教練Jeremy Holsopple和手法治療師

Casey Spangler。

這三人自Doncic被選中之前就一直在球隊工作，並與他建立了深厚的關係。

「他們把我喜歡的人都趕走了」一位消息人士透露，Doncic在最近幾個月抱怨道。


The plan backfired.

Before last season, Doncic hired a full-time "body team" -- Slovenian
national team strength coach Anze Macek, as well as physiotherapist Javier
Barrio Calvo and nutritionist Lucia Almendros from Real Madrid -- that he
paid for out of his own pocket.

The changes didn't result in a healthier or more available Doncic, and the
internal frustration only increased as team sources complained about poor
communication between Doncic's team and the Mavs' staff this season.


但這個計劃適得其反。



Almendros。




But Cuban, though still a near-nightly presence at Mavericks games, is out of
the franchise's decision-making tree now, and Dumont does not have the same
relationship with Doncic or the inclination to assert himself in basketball
decisions as Cuban.

Dumont saw it as a business decision that would preserve the Mavericks'
financial flexibility for the long term, team sources said, and he trusted
Harrison's vision of how Davis would be a culture-setter and give the team a
new defense-minded identity.




球隊消息人士透露，Dumont將這視為一項商業決策，旨在長期保持獨行俠的財務靈活性，

並且他相信Harrison的願景，認為AD能夠成為球隊文化的塑造者，並為球隊帶來一種新的

防守型身份。


Cuban declined to comment when reached by ESPN, saying it wasn't his team
anymore.

Others within the organization and those close to it weren't so reticent to
give an opinion.
"No way Mark would ever trade Luka," a team source said. "It wouldn't even be
a conversation."


當ESPN聯繫Cuban時，他拒絕發表評論，表示這已經不是他的球隊了。

然而，球隊內部及與球隊關係密切的人士並不那麼沉默。

「Cuban絕不會交易Luka」一位球隊消息人士表示，「這甚至不會成為一個談話。」


"I'm sorry [fans] are frustrated, but it's something that we believe in as an
organization," Harrison said. "It's going to make us better. We believe that
it sets us up to win, not only now, but also in the future. And when we win,
I believe the frustration will go away.

"The future to me is three, four years from now. The future 10 years from
now, I don't know. They'll probably bury me and [Kidd] by then. Or we'll bury
ourselves."


「我很抱歉球迷們感到沮喪，但這是我們作為一個組織所相信的事情」Harrison說道。

「這將使我們變得更好。我們相信這不僅能讓我們現在贏球，也能為未來奠定基礎。而當

我們贏球時，我相信這些沮喪情緒將會消失。」

「對我來說，未來是三、四年後的事情。至於十年後的未來，我不知道。

到那時，他們可能會埋葬我和Kidd，或者我們會自己埋葬自己。」



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