With Nico finally gone and Luka's player option in 2028, how likely is it that he even considers coming back to us? What are the necessary conditions for this to become a reality?

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  3. This is me reaching, but when Caleb Pressley interviewed Luka on “Sundae Conversation”, Luka acknowledged California’s high state taxes, and that he would consider playing somewhere with no state tax.

    Will this factor at all in 2028 when it comes to considering the Mavericks offer versus what we can anticipate the Lakers offering him in 2028? Please give me hope

  4. Luka was humiliated by the Mavericks. Nico might have been driving the truck, but the damage is still done.

    Maybe 9 or 10 years from now we’ll see him again, but it would be after his prime with a lot of distance between from the current issues. My guess is he never plays for Dallas again unfortunately.

  6. He’s the key component of the most known NBA team in the world and the biggest market in the league now. He’s not coming back.

  7. We need to stock the front office full of people he likes, get a coach he likes, and basically build around him wihtout him being there, hoping it will entice him back

  12. At best and if we are lucky.. he signs a 1 day contract at the end of his career to retire a Maverick (like Aaron Rodgers is supposedly going to do with the Packers).

  15. He’ll make a ton more money in advertising in LA. He has bought a 25 million house on the beach. The team has great vibes. They all love coach JJ. Luka would have to leave money on the table again, to not resign with the Lakers in 28. The Mavs completely fucked him mentally. He was shocked and really sad when he was traded.

    There is absolutely no chance at all he ever comes back.

    Zero.

  17. This has been my dream since the trade but I don’t think he’s coming with the scumbags running the team.

    The team would need to be sold. Good ownership with Dirk somehow heavily involved and maybe other people Luka likes.

    Flagg ready to contend. Hopefully another young star from the 2026 draft and maybe other really good young players that we could have picked up from trading veterans.

    Lakers need to falter and not be able to win and maybe the asshole privileged fan base turns on Luka.

    Dirk and others put the full court press to bring him home.

  23. He won’t come home in 28. Maybe when he’s washed like KG in Minny and Wade in Miami.

  25. I think there is a chance if.

    New ownership, a plus if it led by Nowitzki’s group

    Everyone he thinks that is a part of the trade are gone

    Everyone he likes from the front office are back

    If he won mvp and a championship as a laker

    Thats a lot of things that should happened in only 3 yrs.

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