Heavy Luka Theories with Kiese Laymon
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
It's being called the most shocking trade in basketball or even sports history: All-NBA guard Luka Doncic was sent from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis. Everyone is searching for reasons why the Mavericks would throw away Doncic, a generationally great player who is only 25 years old.
On Edge of Sports, we break the trade down with none other than Kiese Laymon. The writer of books like Heavy and Long Division and a professor at Rice University, Laymon helps us break down why it may have happened, as well as some theories to help us make sense of the senseless. We look at Luka, LeBron, the executives in charge, and the very shady new Mavericks owner and bankroller of Trump, the infamous Miriam Adelson.
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| 0:00.0 | you shouldn't put that pressure on a on a newly formed team anyway you know what |
| 0:05.5 | mean like we've all seen those newly formed teams they used to take like a year you know |
| 0:09.2 | except for i think that time with clod joined houston or something like that but the most part |
| 0:12.8 | it takes like a year to cook you're like man we fin to win a ring man dog you fin to be fired my |
| 0:18.5 | nigga like in like six months I guarantee you |
| 0:21.5 | know what I'm saying so that might have to be the title of the pod |
| 0:25.6 | no you're fin to be fired welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast brought to you by The Nation Magazine. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Dave Ziren. |
| 0:45.7 | Look, no preamble. |
| 0:47.3 | We are going to talk about the most shocking sports moment of my lifetime, at least since February 1990 when Buster Douglas knocked out |
| 0:57.5 | Mike Tyson. |
| 0:58.5 | That's the only thing I'm comparing this to. |
| 1:01.4 | And I'm talking, of course, about the no warning trade of perhaps the second best player |
| 1:06.7 | on Earth, Mavericks, 25-year-old, five-time first team, all-MBA forward, |
| 1:11.3 | Luca Donchich, |
| 1:12.5 | under the cover of night. |
| 1:14.8 | Los Angeles Lakers. |
| 1:17.0 | Now, franchise owners |
| 1:18.4 | are furious. |
| 1:20.1 | Luca is crying. |
| 1:22.6 | Dallas fans are holding |
| 1:23.7 | demonstrations and vandalizing shit. |
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