Doncic-Davis trade is a win-win trade with Mavericks being the one that profited much more than the other.

First of all, i’m open to discussions with reasoning, please do not comment with reactionary stuff.

Let’s look at the facts.

Mavericks angle:

1- They had one all-time great level, one superstar level guard, neither of them could play even an okay point of attack defense.

2- They had zero threat of interior scoring except lobs.

3- All the defensive bigs they have were a liability on the other end so there couldn’t be more than one of them on the floor simultaneously.

4- They had an okay depth of ball-playing guards with Dinwiddie and Hardy. Exum made his season debut too.

With this trade, Mavs got a prolific interior scoring threat who will be able to pair astonishingly well with Gafford/Lively. We all know that he prefers to play the 4 and Gafford is the best fit in the league for Davis in this manner. He won’t have all the defence on his back so that’ll affect his performance on the other end in a very good way too. He can go back to Pelicans AD levels of production.

As an added bonus, in the lineup, now they have space for a guard who will attack the player with the ball in Max Christie.

In short, out of all the possible trade scenarios for Doncic, this was the best for the Mavericks. They got the best fit on both ends of the floor in the whole league. No other team could give them a package like that for win now purposes. The team improved significantly.

Lakers angle is pretty short:

1- Their existing problems became much bigger. Now three best players of this team are ball-dominant players and they don’t have any concept of defense at all. Without additional moves they’ve absolutely zero chance to make it to play-offs this season.

2- They set a high ceiling for post-LeBron era.

In short, Doncic is the best player in this trade but basketball is a team sport and Mavericks got improved a ton.

Lakers won’t suck in the near future. And that’s all for now without other moves.