Luka Doncic A Lakers: It’s not personal, it’s a business
World sport is full of these stories, in which some lose and others win, although you never know what side the currency will fall
Professional sport is a business where the owners and managers of the teams make decisions they believe are the best for the present and future of their organization.
With the debut of Luka Doncic with Los Angeles Lakers the premise I propose was affirmed from the moment that one of the most popular NBA teams made the change, without warning, the Slovenian and neither from Anthony Davis, who had acquired homes in Texas and California respectively, and now defend other colors in the league.
This is not the first time that this happens and it will not be the last, in fact, as they read this text, it could be giving the next last moment.
Let’s go more than 100 years to the history of sport to talk about the first movement that cimbated the fans of the sport, and beyond the character, they were the teams involved.
To do this, let’s go to the year 1919 when the Boston Red Sox and the Ny Yankees were the most involved teams and the representative of the Massachusetts state, they had 4 championships in recent years and Manhattan’s mules did not paint In the radar.
With Babe Ruth’s movement, everything would change, in fact, he was known in the world of sport how “the curse of the bambino” name how it is known at that moment in the history of the MLB. It was called that, because the Red Sox did not win a championship until 2004, while the Yankees are to date the team with the most championships in the Major Leagues; He added championships with Boston in 1915, 1916, and 1918, and with Yankees he did it in 1923, 1927, 1928, and 1932.
Interestingly, the curse broke in 2004, with the triumph of the Red Sox in an American league championship game against the Yankees -they won 3 to 1 the series, with 4 to 2 in the eighth and from there, extrainnings, and won 7 consecutive games to be the champions of that season.
Now we travel to 1975, when the newcomer of the Bruins of UCLA, Lew Alcindor, recruited by the Milwaukee Bucks in 1969, emigrated to the west coast in June already with his new name of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who came from three trophies to the MVP of the NBA, and that led his team to the final in which again they fell to the Boston Celtics but was no longer comfortable with the Bucks.
That is why the creator of the space hook, his favorite play, asked for his change already outside the New Yor Knicks or the Lakers. Kareem and Walt Wesley traveled to Los Angeles in exchange for Elmore Smith, Brian Winters, Dave Meyers, Junior Bridgeman and also received a kind of curse, because they won nothing until 2021 with the championship that Greek gave them, Giannis Antetokounmpo. For his part Kareem made time with the Lakers.
Let’s advance about 14 years and reach the NFL. The star corridor of the Dallas Cowboys, Herschel Walker, who had shone in the schoolboy with the Georgia Bulldogs and who was part of the USFL with the New Jersey Generals, arrived at the solitary star team to be a star. But it became one of the most spectacular changes in the league and sports. Dallas benefited so much that there is the fact that the players who were recruited in those school teams were key to the Super Bowls they won, among them the name of IMMITT Smith stands out.
We could return to the MLB with Alex Rodríguez’s exchange, but let’s go to soccer, because CR7 has also been part of these strategies.
In 2009 the Portuguese, which was the sensation of the Premier League with Manchester United, was sent to Real Madrid for 94 million euros. CR7 won the Golden Ball in 2008 and led his team to conquer the Champions League. The rest is history: a great era of meringues and establishing the rivalry of Madrid and Barcelona, or, in other terms, that of CR7 and Lionel Messi.
In the NBA, the most recent is that of Luka, but the Lakers are a team that is accustomed to carrying talent: the aforementioned Kareem; Shaquille O’Neal when he became Kobe Bryant’s dumbbell; The Pau Gasol movement to continue with the successes with the great Kobe and LeBron James himself, who now hopes to have with Luka the power to be NBA champions.
This proves what most of the athletes of different professional leagues think: no one is sure in their team and the decisions of managers are often taken thinking about the success of the organization, and not the fans.
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