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Anthony Davis’ roller coaster debut | Jimmy Butler cooks with Curry
10 Feb 2025
Anthony Davis made his Dallas Mavericks debut in the midst of a fan protest. Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Zena Keita react to AD’s debut, the rescinded trade between the Lakers and Hornets, and Jimmy Butler’s perfect fit with the Warrior. Then, the Athletic’s Christian Clark joins the show to discuss the timeline of the Luka Doncic trade, the fan reaction, Anthony Davis’ latest injury, and the comments from Mavericks Governor Patrick DumontHost: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita, Es Baraheni & Christian ClarkExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodyRead Christian’s story on AD’s debut: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6123613/2025/02/08/anthony-davis-mavericks-max-christie-luka-doncic/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning, everybody. Quick addendum to the show. Anthony Davis is going to miss a little bit of time with his injury that he suffered in his debut. You're going to hear us talk about it a little bit. And we weren't sure when he was going to be back. We got news late on Sunday that he was going to miss multiple weeks with an adductor strand. So keep that in mind when you listen to the show.
But still a lot of good reporting from Christian Clark on the ground in Dallas. So here's the show. Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. Coming up, we have a rescinded trade. AD and Jimmy Butler made their debuts and Christian Clark is here to talk about the fan backlash for Nico Harrison and the Dallas Mavericks.
good morning everybody good morning guys uh morning not very often i get to exclaim the reverse of a trade usually i'm hey we've got a trade we have a rescinded trade this is very rare uh but unfortunately this trade has fallen through uh the lakers and hornets their trade for mark williams uh and dalton connect has fallen through because mark williams has uh
They found multiple issues on his physical. The Lakers did. So failure to satisfy a condition of the trade. The trade has been rescinded. Dalton Connect is going to go back to the Lakers. Mark Williams returns. And, by the way, the Charlotte Hornets put out a really nice statement about Mark Williams and how excited they are to have him back. And I would even say this, S, like –
when you look at Mark Williams, I mean, this is a talented young player who I think the Hornets, when you look at where they're at as an organization, it probably wasn't the easiest guy for them to give up. It's not like he's a bum.
No, he makes a lot of sense next to LaMelo ball and Brandon Miller. And the only thing is like, you hope he can just stay healthy in his career. He's had, he's played less than a hundred games through three seasons of his career. So I don't think I'm necessarily surprised that this trade got rescinded and that the physical was to a point where the Lakers were like, we want backseas. Like we, we,
We want to take back this whole situation. Also, like from the Lakers perspective, I know there's a lot of Lakers fans who are sad that this trade hasn't gone through, but you might have caught a break here because ultimately you might have had, you know, for a lack of better words, damaged goods here in the sense that it
If he was going to come and you would have had an injured starting center, you would have wasted all that draft capital. Think about the 2031 unprotected pick Dalton connect. They had a swap in there as well. So now you can actually do more in the summer to build around Luca.
So it might be like, you know, the medicine that you have to take, so to speak, to make this team actually make sense moving forward.
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