Luka Doncic has meant something more than what wins and losses do. He is famous, himself, and alive in a way that is wholly original and that will likely prove timeless.
about the trade signaling that the league’s new collective bargaining agreement has empowered owners and front offices after more than a decade of growing player power—, about how the swap might play out on the court. The move is of a magnitude serious enough that writing about it once more feels warranted. In part three of three, the public’s reaction, and the concepts it stems from, will be considered.
That Dallas Mavericks fans are incensed about the trade stands to reason. He’s their guy. There’s nothing better than drafting a star and watching him grow—all the better if he does it quickly, turning in iconic playoff moments as early as his second season. By his fourth season, he led you to the Conference Finals; by his sixth, one round further into the actual Finals. All this, on its own, is a Hall of Fame story.
The Superstar, in general, represents a notion of individual greatness that is important to people. Basketball, more than any other mainstream team sport, consistently validates the thesis herein. One Guy is given credit, more often than not, for team success and championships.
And he lives it, often, in a way most of us wish we could. As he dismantled the Minnesota Timberwolves last May, he glared at heartbroken Minneapolis fans sitting courtside, and told them what’s what:he asked one of them, exhibiting a level of competitive menace that evoked the last time he’d delivered this brand of post-season evisceration, against the Phoenix Suns two years previous.
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