More Luka Trade Fallout! The Pulse of Mavs Fans with Will Cain. Fox to the Spurs. Plus the LeBron, Klutch and Lakers Plans with Jovan Buha.
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What happened with Luka Doncic's trade?
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Big basketball podcast. Let's do it. Luca to the Lakers. Everything that I've been able to piece together and why I think one part of this I will never be okay with. We've got Will Kane. Politics and pick and roll. Probably more just on Luca. De'Aaron Fox also on the move to San Antonio. So a few on that. Serena and I run through the no list of Luca trades and the Lakers future with Yovan Buha and life advice. On Saturday night, Luka was traded to the Lakers. Bill Simmons, Rob Mahoney, and I, we all did an emergency pod because this deserved an emergency pod. It's one of those trades. It's the biggest trade of my NBA lifetime. It's the kind of trade or news that I'll remember exactly where I was.
Saturday night, not very wild. Back home, laying in bed. Paul catch fire on TV. Excited about it. And then you see the first piece of news start traveling in. Your phone starts blowing up. Is this real? What are you talking about, man? And then you see Shams' tweet that Luka Doncic has been traded to the Lakers for Anthony Davis. And I, like everybody else, is like, this doesn't make a lot of sense. And Shams had to say, this is not fake. Like, I haven't been hacked. And Bobby Marks had to be like, he's not hacked. That's how unbelievable this trade was. Call Bill. Bill's like, I guess we do an emergency pod. I'm like, yeah, I think you have to for this one. And we did it. We sorted through it.
And I was hoping by Monday morning of this taping that I would have more info for you. So let's just try to work through it a little bit because the league is still shocked by all of this. So I think it still works today. My reaction was like everybody else. Why would you trade someone like Luka Doncic at 25 years old? He's already made five all NBA first teams by 25. His range is probably at best the second best player in the world. At worst, the third best player in the world. I think he's better than SGA. I'm sure there could be an argument. So let's say the worst you could rank Luka today is the fourth best player in the world at 25 years old. Guys like this do not get traded. And again, it's the most stunning trade of my lifetime.
So since Saturday night, I probably, just because people can't stop talking about this, maybe half the teams, someone for half the teams in the league, because you keep trying to put this together. And now I don't know that there's much more of a mystery. It's like, have you heard from anyone that knew that he was available. Did you hear from any team where Niko just kicked the tires and like, hey, what would you do in theory if we were willing to trade Luka Doncic? Because a lot of times, this is how all this stuff happens. These guys talk to each other nonstop. They know which front offices like their players, which players that they don't like, who could be available, who might not be available. It's just a big...
big run of months and months of dudes on phones talking about hypotheticals they do it in their own front offices where they rank all of the players and then they revisit those rankings they argue over the rankings just because they want to know like how their group sees the value around the league in comparison to maybe how another team would see the value right um So there was speculation that there was this one other mystery team that was at least asked about what they could do for Luka in a trade. I don't know who that team is. And Tim McMahon does a great job, ESPN.com, covers basketball nationally, but very plugged in with the Mavs, said in his piece, quote, they did not discuss potential Davis trades with any franchise other than the Lakers.
So that feels like Maybe there's this one. We'll hear something later on like, oh, they actually kind of called. But like, who knows? Because apparently this wasn't like a two day thing. It goes all the way back to like prior to January 7th. And then Nico and Rob Blanca met up January 7th when they were both in Los Angeles. So if there's one constant that I can, which you already know, but the constant is that Nico Harrison loves Anthony Davis, loves him. And I get it. He's awesome. He's 31. 32 in March. He's been great again this year. All NBA second team last year. I voted him as an all-star starter this season. Last season, though, was his first year at 70 games since 2017-18. He wants to be a power forward.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What happened with Luka Doncic's trade?
0:00–5:37
2
How do Mavs fans feel about Luka's departure?
5:37–17:44
3
What are the implications of De'Aaron Fox's trade to the Spurs?
17:44–23:23
4
How did the Luka deal come about?
23:23–23:46
5
What are the Lakers' plans following Luka's trade?
23:46–31:53
6
What life advice can we learn from this episode?
31:53–2:04:02
Speakers
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