Lakers prove to be smarter organization than Mavericks with Luka Doncic decision

Dallas Mavericks fans are about to see Luka Doncic play in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform in what's supposed to be one of the most-watched games of the season this evening.

That will only last for a short time, with the Lakers set to visit the Mavs in early April, in what should be one of the most anticipated contests in Mavericks history.

Doncic looked loose and comfortable for the first time in a Laker uniform when he was on the road to face the Denver Nuggets over the weekend. He started out dominating with the basketball in his hands, with no answer to his stepback shot from deep.

If there's one thing that Doncic will have the last laugh with, it's that he has his team of conditioners, also known as his body team, sticking by his side as he continues his career with Los Angeles.

Lakers are already making moves to make Doncic happy, unlike Dallas

For Nico Harrison, it was Doncic's conditioning that had his head scratching on keeping Doncic for the future of the franchise, but it may not have mattered, to begin with.

League sources say that Harrison was never going to offer the supermax deal to Doncic, likely fearing the Mavs would be stuck in a Zion Williamson or Kawhi Leonard problem. Even if Doncic wanted a treat, or a beer every once in a while, it wasn't going to matter. Harrison did not believe Doncic was the guy to take their franchise to new heights moving forward.

It's not taken long at all for Doncic to finally get adjusted to his new team. With sluggish starts to begin his Laker stint, questions started to rise about how Doncic would actually fit into the team, it only took him four games to silence the haters.

Doncic hired his whole body team of people to help him out in Dallas after they fired a couple of people that he was close with, but it clearly didn't matter as Harrison pulled the trigger to move Doncic in an unprecedented move, and Dallas didn't like the communication from Doncic's body team to the organization. The Mavericks didn't like how Doncic hired his own training team, even though he paid them himself.

"They get rid of everybody I like," Doncic told one ESPN source.

The Lakers, on the other hand, are welcoming Doncic's body team with open arms. This simle decision by the Lakers shows that they are doing whatever they can to keep their new superstar happy while the Mavericks fired several prominent figures that Doncic admired.

Dallas and Los Angeles seem to be polar opposites in this area, and the Mavericks making these potentially petty decisions surrounding Doncic was the worst thing they could have done. Teams cater to their superstars, and after everything that Doncic gave to the organization, it seems they should have tried their best to keep him happy.

This was a ticking time bomb for Doncic in Dallas, as he expressed publicly his frustration for Dallas letting go of the people that Doncic grew to know so well. It started to go downhill as much as four years ago when the Mavs let go of GM Donnie Nelson, which Doncic said was "tough" to watch him leave.

Whether or not the conditioning of Doncic was a concern, he's still a once-in-a-generation talent who will be an MVP candidate when healthy. Now, that he has the freedom to bring in pretty much whomever he'd like, he's clearly broken free of the handcuffs that were constantly on him in a Dallas uniform.