The Kristaps Porzingis trade was thought of as temporary step back to take a step forward later. Any hope of preventing the step back has been rooted in the belief that Luka Doncic’ can thrive even more running a historic usage rate in a heliocentric offense. Luka is already running the 9th highest usage rate in NBA history this season with a 37.1 percent usage rate. That includes an eye popping 47.3 percent usage rate since the Porzingis trade was announced.
That is not sustainable. The record for usage rate for a single season is 41.7 percent by Russell Westbrook in his MVP season.