The jaw-dropping amount of money Luka Doncic is losing due to blockbuster Lakers trade

The blockbuster three-team trade early Sunday morning had major financial ramifications for Luka Doncic.He was in line to receive a super-max contract from the Mavericks next offseason but is no longer eligible after being traded to the Lakers.The super max would have allowed Doncic to sign a five-year, $345 million contract with the Mavericks this summer.

Instead, the most the Lakers can offer him next offseason is a five-year, $229 million deal, according to ESPN, a whopping $116 million less than what he could’ve gotten from Dallas.On top of that, Doncic will go from paying no state income tax in Texas to the country’s largest state income tax in California, with a current top rate of 14.4 percent on income that exceeds $1 million a year, according to Sportico.  As part of the stunning three-team trade, the Lakers received Doncic, Maxi Keleber and Markieff Morris, the Mavericks received Anthony Davis, Max Christie and the Lakers’ 2029 first-round pick and the Jazz received Jalen Hood-Schifino, the Clippers’ 2025 second-round pick and the Mavericks’ 2025 second-round selection.NBA teams can offer the super max — which allows players to get paid up to 35 percent of the salary cap as opposed to 30 percent — to players with seven-to-nine years of service if they earn specific accolades; Doncic became eligible by being named to an All-NBA team last year.The player also needs to either still be with the team that originally drafted or acquired him or have been acquired by the team before his fifth season in the league.

Doncic is currently in his seventh season in the league.But players can also sign contracts worth 35 percent of the cap once they’ve reached 10 years of service, meaning it might behoove Doncic sign a three-year extension with a player option for 2028-29, which would give him the option to hit the open market once he hits those 10 years of service.

Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison, who reportedly had concerns about Doncic’s ...