The Dallas Mavericks exchanging Luka Doncic Du Los Angeles Lakers were so amazing that fans asked the NBA commissioner Adam Silver, from veto to trade.
Silver, 62, explained that he did not have the veto power to a profession during a recent appearance on “Sorry My Take” by Barstool Sports.
“The answer is no, believe it or not. There is a confusion that people shouted for a reason at the time, and there is always a certain confusion there,” said Silver.
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The NBA commissioner Adam Silver speaks before the Basketball NBA Games 2025 basketball matches between the San Antonio Spurs and Indiana Pacers at Accor Arena. (Stephanie Lecocq / Reuters via Imagn Images)
The late NBA commissioner David Stern opposed his three-way success after the lockout 2011.
The Lakers would have acquired the 26 -year -old superstar playmaker, Chris Paul, to team up with Kobe Bryant then from Orleans. The Lakers would have sent Lamar Odom and Pau Gasol. The NBA owned the Hornets at the time, and the Director General, Dell Demps, did not obtain the approval of Sterns for Trade.
Once Stern discovered it, he vetoed the trade, but he could not oppose his veto to this blockbuster because the league owned the team, not because he was a commissioner.
Silver said that whatever the advantages of trade, he cannot oppose his veto to an agreement he does not like.
“I mean the way we do not put an inch on the scale, so to speak, when a job enters the league office, which our residents of basketball and legal do, is that ‘They ensure that this trade works under the limits of the collective negotiation contract, whatever the rules in place, “he said. “Then, it is from top to bottom, it is approved or not according to these rules. We cannot weigh on what we think that the advantages of the trade are or should be.”
Luka Donnic made his debut at the Lakers after the blockbuster trade
Los Angeles Lakers Guard Luka Doncic is making gestures when he returned in the first half of a basketball match of the NBA against Utah Jazz on Monday, February 10, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP photo / Mark J. Terill)
When he was asked if he thought at least that it was cool that Donci was in a large market now in Los Angeles, Silver stressed that Dallas is a large media market.
“Frankly, Dallas is a large market, and I was surprised that it was exchanged from this point of view? Yeah, I am a fan and the teams do not necessarily give the league interior information on this kind of Things, so this business was not, it is not a time that I have seen.
Silver added that he wanted the Lakers and the Mavericks to succeed after seismic trade.
“The only thing I will say is to have been with this league for a long time, as nothing is written. People who say that they can predict that the future can generally not and we will see. Am a sort of rooted Dallas, and I am rooted for Lakers.
Davis suffered a groin injury during the Mavericks’ victory over Houston’s Rockets on Saturday and should be missing for several weeks, by ESPN.
Dallas Mavericks striker Anthony Davis, n ° 3, leaves the match against Houston’s Rockets in the third trimester to the American Airlines Center. (Jerome Miron-Imagn images)
Dononic made its debut in the Lakers on Monday and scored 14 points in 24 minutes in the Lakers’ victory. It was his first return match of the injury since her Christmas injury.
