[nickcarraway]

How does the NBA Player's Union allow this rule? I know he'll be getting a lot of money anyway, but that's a lot of money to lose for something like this. And he had a chance to win a championship with the Mavs this year.

[Eccl 10:2]

Mavs were smart to dump him. He’s an overweight drunk who probably won’t last another 5 years, if that long.

[VTenigma]

I’m all broken up about this. How will Luka make ends meet now? Poor under privileged round ball players.

[alancarp]

Never mind the difference in income taxes between California (a lot) and Texas (none).

[Truthsearcher]

He’ll lose even more as California has state income taxes, and Texas doesn’t.

[dfwgator]

Could Dallas still potentially resign him?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The super max would have allowed Doncic to sign a five-year, $345 million contract with the Mavericks this summer. Instead, the most the Lakers can offer him next offseason is a five-year, $229 million deal, according to ESPN, a whopping $116 million less than what he could’ve gotten from Dallas.

...and Luka will be paying California income taxes on whatever he gets from the Lakers, while Texas taxes him nothing. If weight was the issue, Luka ate himself out of over a hundred million dollars. Hope those Krispy Kremes were worth it.

[SuperLuminal]

PLUS the huge state payroll tax difference!

[Glad2bnuts]

I really haven’t cared about the sport most people hate, for a few decades. It is like gymnastics, with less rules.

[Verginius Rufus]

I was wondering about the spelling of Doncic's name. He is Slovenian, but the Slovenian alphabet does not have the c with what looks like an accent mark over it. (It does have the c with the little v over it.) Doncic has the c with the v over it for the first c, but the c with the accent mark for the second c. The Latin alphabet as used by Croats, Bosnians, and some Serbs and Montenegrins does have the c with the accent.

It turns out that his father, although born in Slovenia, is of Serbian ancestry.