Last February, the NBA took a dangerous path when the transfer of Luka Doncic to Los Angeles Lakers was announced. Dallas Mavericks decided to part ways with their star in a trade where they didn't get anything extraordinary in return.
Despite Anthony Davis' arrival, Doncic is one of the top 2 players in the world, and negotiating with any other team would have yielded much more for the Mavs. The feeling is that the NBA intervened in the transfer so that the Lakers, the most followed team in the league, could compete for the championship.
Everything worsened when, in the Draft lottery, with just a 1.8% chance, Dallas landed the 1st pick, thus the opportunity to acquire Cooper Flagg. It all seemed like a "reward" for sacrificing their star when the Mavs arguably had the best team in the West before the move.
Now, a revelation from NBA Rumors continues to fuel all the conspiracy surrounding Doncic's transfer to the Lakers. According to a source from the Sun-Times, Chicago Bulls would have traded "anyone and everyone" for the Slovenian.
"A source told the Sun-Times that Arturas Karnisovas and his management would have offered anyone and everyone on the roster if the Mavericks had informed them that Luka Doncic was available in February."
This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, La revelación que alimenta los rumores de "fraude" en el traspaso de Doncic a los Lakers