The unbelievable Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis deal turned the NBA world upside down with a single Shams Charania scoop and while everyone tries to figure out what it all means, one thing is immediately clear. Overnight the approaches of the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers changed drastically. For the Mavs it's now about betting big on defense and conditioning. For the Lakers it's figuring out how to maximize putting Doncic on the same team as LeBron James and all that goes with such an endeavor.
James is, at worse, the second-best basketball player to step on a court. But even though he's still impressively productive at age 40, he is not 25 years-old like Doncic. Instantly Luka became a bigger part of the Lakers' long-term future than the person who has been steering the ship there for years and has perhaps unmatched power.
