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- 0:00Speaker 1: News that just happened about five minutes ago. Sources, multiple
- 0:04Speaker 1: sources saying the Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleeber,
- 0:09Speaker 1: and Mark Keith Morris to the Lakers for Anthony Davis,
- 0:12Speaker 1: Max Christy and at twenty twenty nine first round pick
- 0:16Speaker 1: per Shawn Cherania and a lot of sources have been
- 0:20Speaker 1: saying this all around the league right now. Chris Haynes
- 0:23Speaker 1: also said it as well, and Nico Harrison, the general
- 0:27Speaker 1: manager of the Dallas Mavericks, confirmed with ESPN's Tim McMahon
- 0:31Speaker 1: and I quote he said, I believe the defense wins championships,
- 0:35Speaker 1: told ESPN regarding his motivation behind the Luka Doncik for
- 0:38Speaker 1: Anthony Davis trade, I believe that getting an all defensive
- 0:41Speaker 1: center and an All NBA player with a defensive mindset
- 0:44Speaker 1: gives us a better chance. We're built to win now
- 0:47Speaker 1: and in the future. This is a shocking trade happening
- 0:51Speaker 1: in the wee hours of Saturday night.
- 0:53Speaker 2: GA.
- 0:54Speaker 1: I'm coming to you first because I just ran in
- 0:56Speaker 1: the room, like, what is going on right now?
- 0:59Speaker 3: You came to us during break with this news. I
- 1:04Speaker 3: couldn't believe it. I still I'm still somewhat thinking it's
- 1:07Speaker 3: a hack. I just it's really hard to fathom the
- 1:11Speaker 3: thought process from moving on from Luca dogs it really
- 1:16Speaker 3: is at this stage of his career as a young
- 1:20Speaker 3: man that just led a team to the finals. And
- 1:24Speaker 3: what Nico said, I don't disagree with. Like Anthony Davis
- 1:28Speaker 3: is good at basketball players we have in the world,
- 1:31Speaker 3: like he from a defensive standpoint and offensive standpoint.
- 1:35Speaker 4: He does it all.
- 1:37Speaker 3: But I just I'm still shocked because it's also fit wise,
- 1:42Speaker 3: how does it work when you're talking about both the
- 1:45Speaker 3: Lakers and also the Mavericks, because you know, Lebron and
- 1:51Speaker 3: Luca are a similar type player in that they are
- 1:54Speaker 3: ball dominant. Now obviously Lebron's towards the end of his career,
- 1:59Speaker 3: but big picture, I would I would say, man, if
- 2:02Speaker 3: you're the Lakers, you gotta be in shock, but also
- 2:08Speaker 3: excited about the potential knowing that you'll be able to
- 2:12Speaker 3: now have a smooth transition potentially from Lebron to l Luca.
- 2:17Speaker 4: Yeah. Also, you got to think that they not through.
- 2:19Speaker 2: They can't be through moving and trying to make moves
- 2:22Speaker 2: with the what they're going to be left with with
- 2:24Speaker 2: Lebron and Luca and you know, no bigs and stuff
- 2:27Speaker 2: like that, so you got to think that there there's
- 2:29Speaker 2: more moves to be made for the Lakers. But I'm
- 2:32Speaker 2: with you with what you said with the MAVs. I
- 2:34Speaker 2: like to fit with a d and Kyrie the you know,
- 2:37Speaker 2: the classic one two, big big gargain, and I think
- 2:42Speaker 2: we will, like you say, we all shot, but we
- 2:44Speaker 2: will see moving forward how the Lakers continue to change
- 2:48Speaker 2: and and and put this team together moving forward, because
- 2:51Speaker 2: it's gonna be interesting.
- 2:52Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm still in shock.
- 2:54Speaker 1: I mean, it's almost like you don't know what to
- 2:56Speaker 1: say because you were not expecting a trade, especially this
- 2:59Speaker 1: big with these names, to happen so quickly on a
- 3:04Speaker 1: night like tonight, Like I mean, how does Anthony Davis,
- 3:07Speaker 1: I guess now fit in with the Dallas Mavericks schemes
- 3:11Speaker 1: and what they want to do moving forward. Nico Harrison
- 3:13Speaker 1: obviously saying it's focusing on the defensive side of things
- 3:16Speaker 1: that they want to win.
- 3:16Speaker 4: Now.
- 3:16Speaker 3: I think the fit is I will say this just
- 3:20Speaker 3: off the top of my head. I do think the
- 3:22Speaker 3: fits better because one ad can play some four there
- 3:27Speaker 3: because you do have Lively and you do have Gaffert,
- 3:31Speaker 3: and so that's that could make av even MoPo. You
- 3:35Speaker 3: still got Kyrie, who is an a list first option,
- 3:39Speaker 3: dynamic talent who's also won a championship playing alongside another
- 3:44Speaker 3: truly great player. So and he's gone to the finals
- 3:46Speaker 3: with Luca. It's just I'm still really I can't remember
- 3:52Speaker 3: a trade. I don't know that I've ever my NBA
- 3:55Speaker 3: life can recall a trade this shock.
- 4:00Speaker 4: I just don't. I don't know.
- 4:02Speaker 3: There was never a scenario where I could see. I
- 4:05Speaker 3: could never even see Dallas trading Luca. Yeah, I didn't
- 4:09Speaker 3: see this one coming. This one is mind boggling to me.
- 4:13Speaker 3: This one really is a shock.
- 4:15Speaker 1: I mean it's almost like hard to find words what
- 4:17Speaker 1: to say. There are more tweets about this too. Let's
- 4:20Speaker 1: take a look at this one from Bobby Mark. There
- 4:21Speaker 1: are major financial implications for Luka Doncic with his trade.
- 4:25Speaker 1: He was in line to receive a five year, three
- 4:27Speaker 1: hundred and forty five million dollar contract this summer. Doncic
- 4:31Speaker 1: is no longer Supermax eligible, so was part of it.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Maybe the Maps didn't want to play to pay the
- 4:39Speaker 1: super max. The MAVs had major concerns about moving forward
- 4:41Speaker 1: to Lucadantrich due to his constant conditioning issues and the
- 4:44Speaker 1: looming commitment of another Super Max contract extension this summer.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Sources are telling espn Q, how do you react to
- 4:53Speaker 1: tweets like.
- 4:54Speaker 2: That, Hey, that's that's like, like GA said, that's very alarming. Actually,
- 5:00Speaker 2: you know, just thinking the way that his relationship was
- 5:04Speaker 2: with the MAVs, I didn't see him leaving it anytime
- 5:06Speaker 2: soon or at all. And now to hear, I mean,
- 5:10Speaker 2: obviously there have been rumblings about his conditioning being in
- 5:13Speaker 2: shape and how it deteriorates during the season from when
- 5:16Speaker 2: he comes in the off season.
- 5:18Speaker 4: So I mean, hey, maybe they went and did the.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Unthinkable and put themselves I feel like they definitely put
- 5:24Speaker 2: themselves in a great scenario getting ad to pair him
- 5:28Speaker 2: with what they already have and the things that's going
- 5:30Speaker 2: out outside of Lucas not that great. And they bring
- 5:33Speaker 2: in Maxi Christie as well, who's a good piece who's
- 5:36Speaker 2: been playing well this year for the Lakers.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Mark Stein, though saying Luka Doncics did not request a trade,
- 5:43Speaker 1: the LAK sources are telling him the MAVs did this
- 5:46Speaker 1: on their own accord getting back Anthony Davis, but only
- 5:49Speaker 1: one future first round pick from the Lakers in twenty
- 5:52Speaker 1: twenty nine for twenty five year old regarded as a
- 5:55Speaker 1: future MVP. That's exactly what Luka Donichessi's the guy that
- 5:58Speaker 1: you thought would be POSSI simply a Maverick for the
- 6:01Speaker 1: rest of his life forever. I mean, this is so shocking,
- 6:04Speaker 1: it's hard to even put in the words. Again, I
- 6:07Speaker 1: keep saying that, but it really is.
- 6:09Speaker 3: It is and for me one reason it's so shocking.
- 6:12Speaker 3: And again this Anthony Davis is an incredible town one
- 6:15Speaker 3: of my favorite players in the entire league.
- 6:17Speaker 4: And I mean, you could make an argument he's one of.
- 6:20Speaker 3: The five best players in the league, like in terms
- 6:22Speaker 3: of all that he can do to impact the game.
- 6:26Speaker 3: But the thing about Luca is he's a franchise anchor
- 6:30Speaker 3: because he's also a face of the league. You know,
- 6:34Speaker 3: there aren't a lot of guys that when you think
- 6:38Speaker 3: about the game, that name comes up. Yeah, Luca, Like
- 6:42Speaker 3: he's an international star and this is still a business.
- 6:47Speaker 3: And so from the Lakers standpoint, I mean, listen, I'm
- 6:51Speaker 3: sure they didn't want to lose Anthony Davis, but it's
- 6:54Speaker 3: not often to your point, you're going to get a
- 6:56Speaker 3: chance to get a guy twenty six years old that's
- 7:00Speaker 3: an All NBA caliboard player who's taking a.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Team to the finals.
- 7:04Speaker 3: Who and you could argue, if he does get where
- 7:07Speaker 3: he needs to physically que his best basketball is still
- 7:11Speaker 3: at help.
- 7:12Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like he can.
- 7:14Speaker 3: It's not like he doesn't have a chance to continue
- 7:16Speaker 3: to improve.
- 7:19Speaker 2: The only thing I'll add to that is it makes
- 7:21Speaker 2: you think, because you know how it is Ga Like
- 7:24Speaker 2: when you as the Dallas Mavericks, they are the team
- 7:28Speaker 2: that they were the beholders, so they know the intimate
- 7:32Speaker 2: things that we don't know. So maybe they saw something
- 7:35Speaker 2: that they saw that could be.
- 7:38Speaker 4: Hard to work with moving forward.
- 7:40Speaker 2: When you talk about the conditioning and you talk about
- 7:42Speaker 2: the things, maybe they're looking at it from like, we
- 7:44Speaker 2: don't want to deal with what we have to deal
- 7:46Speaker 2: with with him going forward. As you know, as players
- 7:48Speaker 2: get older, it gets harder to be better and conditioning
- 7:51Speaker 2: and all those different things. So like you say, this
- 7:54Speaker 2: is all fresh and new, we don't know, but like
- 7:57Speaker 2: for them to give up Luca and then the comments
- 8:00Speaker 2: to come out being said about conditioning like those things,
- 8:03Speaker 2: that means it had to be a lot more going on.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Behind the scenes that we were privy to. Yeah, and
- 8:08Speaker 2: things that they that they deemed this like alarming or
- 8:11Speaker 2: a big deal, big enough deal for.
- 8:13Speaker 4: Them to move.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Again, we're taking a look at this. The Lakers receive
- 8:16Speaker 1: Luka Doncic, Kleaver and Morris. MAVs received Anthony Davis Max
- 8:19Speaker 1: Christy twenty twenty nine first round pick. The Jazz part
- 8:22Speaker 1: of this too, they receive Pod Shaffino twenty twenty five
- 8:26Speaker 1: second round pick and a twenty twenty five second round
- 8:28Speaker 1: pick from Dallas as well. Now you know this is
- 8:31Speaker 1: the Lakers. They like getting guys in their young prime.
- 8:34Speaker 1: They did it with a d They're now doing it
- 8:36Speaker 1: with Luca. But the MAVs approached the Lakers recently and
- 8:39Speaker 1: offered Luka Doncic. Sources are telling him Lakers brass met
- 8:43Speaker 1: and believed the twenty five year old donci has the
- 8:44Speaker 1: ability to be the face of their franchise for the
- 8:46Speaker 1: next decade. Will giving ad a win now move for Dallas?
- 8:51Speaker 4: What does Lebron think right now?
- 8:54Speaker 1: I'm trying to follow all the tweets, Like even CJ
- 8:57Speaker 1: McCollum tweets out, I can't tell what's real and fake
- 8:59Speaker 1: anymore are in these apps? Is Luca really going to
- 9:01Speaker 1: the Lakers? Joel Embiid is tweeting, Wow, no way. I
- 9:05Speaker 1: mean even players are shocked at this movie as well.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Ga. My son just called me and he was like,
- 9:12Speaker 3: did you see. I was like, I'm as as much
- 9:15Speaker 3: shocked as you are.
- 9:16Speaker 4: Seriously, you just like there Listen.
- 9:20Speaker 3: Honestly, I'm sitting here thinking about what Superstar could have
- 9:24Speaker 3: been traded that would have shocked me more.
- 9:27Speaker 4: And I don't think hard to.
- 9:28Speaker 3: Think in our league that would have shocked me.
- 9:33Speaker 4: What is Lebron James thinking right now?
- 9:37Speaker 2: That changes his you know that changes this season could
- 9:41Speaker 2: like big time for them, Like they were trying to
- 9:43Speaker 2: build up momentum and get to you know, going they
- 9:45Speaker 2: were in the top six to the playoffs and trying
- 9:47Speaker 2: to what does that do for them right there? That
- 9:51Speaker 2: that kind of dead pans all of that. That's true
- 9:55Speaker 2: the future, Like you say, the future is like, yeah,
- 9:57Speaker 2: he can ask the baton and you can be the guy.
- 9:59Speaker 2: But it's like, what about right now where we were
- 10:01Speaker 2: in the middle of trying to do and Lebron he's
- 10:04Speaker 2: at the end of the world.
- 10:05Speaker 4: He was trying to get one right now. You know
- 10:06Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
- 10:07Speaker 3: Well, you made the point though that you have to
- 10:10Speaker 3: figure the Lakers may.
- 10:13Speaker 4: Not be done. I don't know what else they have
- 10:16Speaker 4: the potential to do.
- 10:18Speaker 3: But listen, with all the concerns that we heard from
- 10:22Speaker 3: the Dallas Mavericks about Luca, he can still really play
- 10:27Speaker 3: and he is a guy that just led a team
- 10:29Speaker 3: to the finals a year ago, and it would be listen,
- 10:34Speaker 3: I can't wait for all of the stuff to fall
- 10:36Speaker 3: out to hear about what's really going on, because I
- 10:40Speaker 3: had a sense that there had to be something that
- 10:43Speaker 3: wasn't necessarily.
- 10:45Speaker 4: Just about basketball, but his trade to happen.
- 10:47Speaker 3: And I think that something must have come to a
- 10:50Speaker 3: head with his issues health wise. How long is he
- 10:55Speaker 3: out right now? How this is all going to materialize?
- 10:58Speaker 3: And from his stand point, if what they're saying is true.
- 11:02Speaker 3: A lot of times and Q knows this, when you
- 11:04Speaker 3: are a great player you get traded unexpectedly, it can
- 11:09Speaker 3: humble you, yeah, and it can then make you start
- 11:11Speaker 3: to say, you know what, maybe I do need to
- 11:15Speaker 3: make some changes. And you get to go and play
- 11:19Speaker 3: along the guy you idolize growing up, who is the
- 11:23Speaker 3: epitome of taking care of themselves physically, and so that's
- 11:27Speaker 3: something else that could play. And this from the Lakers standpoint,
- 11:29Speaker 3: but I mean you're not just talking to generational talent.
- 11:33Speaker 3: I mean you're talking about a guy who you could
- 11:35Speaker 3: make the arguments best player.
- 11:36Speaker 4: In the league. Yeah.
- 11:38Speaker 1: No, I totally agree. And it's still a shocking trade.
- 11:40Speaker 1: The amount of tweets that are coming out from all
- 11:43Speaker 1: of the players around the league right now, David Aldridge
- 11:45Speaker 1: taking out becovering the NBA for thirty seven years, Almost
- 11:48Speaker 1: nothing that happens, deals, free agent signings, coaching, coach hirings
- 11:52Speaker 1: and firings rises to the level of as the great
- 11:54Speaker 1: Ben Bradley used to call them, holy Don't think I
- 11:57Speaker 1: can say that on their stories. You just get used
- 12:00Speaker 1: to be unexpected.
- 12:00Speaker 4: This is a.
- 12:01Speaker 1: Holy keep trade and it definally is one. I think
- 12:05Speaker 1: this is their trade that's gonna go down to history
- 12:06Speaker 1: for years. People will talk about this twenty thirty forty
- 12:09Speaker 1: five years later, being like, remember that one time there
- 12:12Speaker 1: was the most shocking trade almost history, where Luka Doncic
- 12:16Speaker 1: was traded for Anthony Davis. And I mean, I don't
- 12:20Speaker 1: even I guess one of the next questions is what
- 12:22Speaker 1: else do the Lakers want to add now that they're
- 12:24Speaker 1: adding someone.
- 12:27Speaker 2: Anything, Anthony Davis was asking about, they gotta go get it. Well,
- 12:30Speaker 2: Ad got it, That's what I'm saying. Gafford, I don't know,
- 12:34Speaker 2: win live. He'll be back, but like, yeah, he's got
- 12:36Speaker 2: what he needs and after he gets over the initial shock,
- 12:40Speaker 2: I think he should be okay. But if the Lakers,
- 12:43Speaker 2: the Lakers fans, they they gotta know that this new
- 12:46Speaker 2: moves coming, it's got to be more moves coming. I
- 12:48Speaker 2: don't I can't even think off the top of my
- 12:50Speaker 2: head right now who to.
- 12:51Speaker 4: Go after whatever.
- 12:52Speaker 2: You just know you need some size and some some
- 12:54Speaker 2: big athleticism guys up front because they don't have a lot.
- 12:57Speaker 4: Of it right now.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Yeah, gotta have a lot of more defuse And I
- 13:00Speaker 1: mean we saw them play really good defense tonight.
- 13:03Speaker 4: Was a name that was mentioned and there's still could
- 13:06Speaker 4: have been things.
- 13:06Speaker 3: I will and you know this, the one thing I
- 13:08Speaker 3: will say, like the questions when you're trying to build
- 13:12Speaker 3: a championship team, you can have a lot of questions,
- 13:15Speaker 3: but the one question you can have is just my
- 13:18Speaker 3: best player good enough to win a championship. It's got
- 13:21Speaker 3: to start there. Like you can have a good defensive team.
- 13:25Speaker 3: You know, you can have a great shooting team, you
- 13:26Speaker 3: can have a lot of things that are positive, but ultimately,
- 13:30Speaker 3: to win a championship, your best player has got to
- 13:33Speaker 3: be one of those guys.
- 13:34Speaker 2: I don't think Lebron is heavy right now. I'm just
- 13:38Speaker 2: being really just thinking about if you him.
- 13:40Speaker 4: What would you feel like him? Hed is boy, great
- 13:43Speaker 4: chemistry and everything. He just spoke highly about how everybody.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Had to feel in the blank because a d does
- 13:49Speaker 2: so much for everybody.
- 13:50Speaker 4: On the whole team.
- 13:51Speaker 3: Just saying that, I don't know that he couldn't have
- 13:55Speaker 3: had an inkling that something like this could potentially happen.
- 14:00Speaker 3: I just find I would find it hard to believe
- 14:04Speaker 3: that he wouldn't have some type of understanding about what
- 14:11Speaker 3: might be transpiring. Yeah, you know, like because I don't
- 14:15Speaker 3: think this just happened like that, Like there have been conversations.
- 14:19Speaker 3: I gotta believe, because if you're Dallas, you can't make
- 14:22Speaker 3: this doesn't happen in an hour.
- 14:24Speaker 4: This is you don't make.
- 14:26Speaker 3: A move like this without a lot of thought going
- 14:29Speaker 3: into it, from the ownership on down from the coaching staff.
- 14:32Speaker 4: There's a lot of respect between Jake.
- 14:34Speaker 3: Kid and Nico Harrison, so like there has been an
- 14:38Speaker 3: ongoing dialogue.
- 14:39Speaker 4: On their end that we didn't know about. Yeah.
- 14:41Speaker 3: Absolutely, because the fact that that statement came out about
- 14:47Speaker 3: the conditioning about.
- 14:48Speaker 4: The defense wins championship, it was like.
- 14:53Speaker 3: It was almost like a little bit of a at
- 14:55Speaker 3: a shot.
- 14:56Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, definitely for a fact.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Now take me inside right now. I mean they're adding
- 15:02Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, are they Are they capable right now? GA?
- 15:06Speaker 1: You think of winning now?
- 15:09Speaker 4: Listen.
- 15:09Speaker 3: Yeah, they do have a really good roster and they
- 15:12Speaker 3: still have Kyrie, who's going to be more than comfortable
- 15:16Speaker 3: at scoring the basketball a high level. But I will
- 15:20Speaker 3: say this though, that locker room is probably in shock too,
- 15:25Speaker 3: you know, because when you're that kind of player like
- 15:28Speaker 3: a Luca and remember he's basically been there his whole career.
- 15:31Speaker 3: He is a strong pull in that locker room. And
- 15:35Speaker 3: you've heard Kyrie talk about their relationship and that dynamic
- 15:40Speaker 3: and it's it's still gonna take some time for this
- 15:43Speaker 3: to all settle.
- 15:44Speaker 4: You can take a lot of time.
- 15:46Speaker 3: Look how we're feeling about this. How much shocked Wor is. Yeah,
- 15:49Speaker 3: you can only imagine when those Maverick players here that,
- 15:52Speaker 3: like I can guarantee you to a man, this is
- 15:56Speaker 3: something they didn't think was remotely possible. Yeah, you, I mean,
- 16:00Speaker 3: you would not have thought that this was even a
- 16:03Speaker 3: possibility that Luka Doncis could be traded. And I don't
- 16:05Speaker 3: think it had anything to do with the max contract.
- 16:08Speaker 3: But one thing about a max contract, like when you've
- 16:11Speaker 3: got one of those guys on your roster, like you
- 16:14Speaker 3: want to pay your you gotta spend that money anyway, right,
- 16:17Speaker 3: You're going to have to spend that like you want
- 16:19Speaker 3: to spend it on those kind of players. Now, they're
- 16:22Speaker 3: concerned about the injuries and the health and the conditioning.
- 16:26Speaker 3: That's all real, but it's not a money thing to me,
- 16:30Speaker 3: And ad just signed an extension, So to me, this
- 16:33Speaker 3: is more about they just feel like they and it
- 16:37Speaker 3: took a lot for them to get to this point.
- 16:38Speaker 3: I believe for you to be able to move on
- 16:41Speaker 3: from a player of that caliber, and this is something
- 16:44Speaker 3: where I think everybody in that organization had to be
- 16:47Speaker 3: on board with making a move like this.
- 16:49Speaker 1: Yeah, and inside the locker room, like you said, they're
- 16:51Speaker 1: probably shook to the core right now. The maps without
- 16:53Speaker 1: Luka don chiching the season are thirteen and fourteen on
- 16:56Speaker 1: the year, so it'll be interesting to see how they
- 16:58Speaker 1: adjust again.
- 16:59Speaker 4: Eight