ESPN NBA insider was just as shocked as the rest of us when he learned that Luka Doncic was being traded from the Mavericks to the Lakers on Saturday night. He joined Shan and Bobby to break down why and how this happened, what he knew about this move before it went down, and what it means for Luka, Anthony Davis and the Mavs going forward.
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00:00Let's just get your reaction to this like were you awake when this happened
00:19were you were you nestled in bed? I was awake trying to get to bed I actually
00:24had traveled from San Francisco to Cleveland so I was fortunate that I was
00:29I had already planned to to briefly join the Mavericks on this on this road trip
00:36listen I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you I was completely shocked I did the
00:43thing where I double-checked is this really Shams you know yeah that whole
00:47thing I was able to get Nico Harrison on the phone you know right after that and
00:53and kind of get his explanation and you know I'd actually like there have been
00:59people there who kind of there been a lot of huffing and puffing and griping
01:05and moaning about Luca this year look like let's just be honest that there had
01:09been right and there had even been like you know if we if we if we have to trade
01:14him to you know to put ourselves in position to win a championship we do
01:18that and you know and I was just like okay sure you would buddy you know that
01:22that's sort of the thing and I just kind of attributed that to people venting
01:28but boy they did it and I was shocked just as shocked as I mean players coaches
01:35the entire executive I can't tell you how my phone blew up really for like the
01:41next 36 hours it was the most shocking trade in NBA history for the simple
01:48reason that you have never seen a player with that resume at age 25 who
01:57did not want to be traded get moved you've never seen a team decide to dump
02:03a first-team all-nba selection five-time first-team all-nba selection at the age
02:10of 25 entering his prime you've never seen a team decide to dump that level of
02:15superstar and that's exactly what happened here