Hour 1: Luka-Me Now

First Take

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4.0 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode, Stephen A. Smith, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, and Brian Windhorst share their biggest takeaways from the Luka Doncic trade. Plus, we react live to breaking news of a trade between the Bucks and the Wizards. Andrew Hawkins joins the show to debate which team has the advantage in the Super Bowl: The Chiefs or the Eagles? Windy tells us what the chances are that we see Kevin Durant traded ahead of the trade deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.9	We will bring a little levity, most importantly. We will bring a little common sense, very important, and a little
0:40.0	logic to our program today. This is first take. Steve likes Orlando now in the NBA final
0:46.9	against the Mavericks. We'll see if we can dissect that in the next few minutes. Mr. Winhurst
0:52.2	will break down Kevin Durand, Stevie, Steve and Mr. Winhurst will break down Kevin Durand. Stevie, Stevie,
0:55.9	Mr. Winhurst will break down Kevin Durant. Do you see him? And Shea, and Shea is in the house.
1:03.6	You got it. It is a Wednesday. It's a man-off day. It's first take time. New Orleans.
1:14.2	Can't football have a minute? Good morning, everyone. Welcome to First Take four sleeps until Super Bowl Sunday, but you saw all of that going on.
1:19.5	Got to start in the NBA. Mad Dog, Stephen A. They're in New Orleans having a good time.
1:23.8	But Wendy's here. So the association is where we begin. I am Shay Cornett.
1:27.7	Luke Kodanchich was introduced as a Laker yesterday alongside Rob Blanca and JJ Reddick.
1:32.9	A lot of takeaways.
1:33.8	But Luca, A.D., LeBron all continued to say the trade was just as shocking to them as it was to the rest of the world.
1:40.3	Late, late Saturday night.
1:42.0	Luca said he had a tough time dealing with the reality of leaving the team that drafted him almost seven years ago,
1:47.1	but he's excited for this next chapter.
1:51.1	I mean, everybody was surprised, so you can imagine how surprised I was.
1:56.8	I was almost asleep, so when I got a call, I had to check it was April 1st.
2:02.6	I didn't really believe it at first.
2:05.3	And it was a bit shock.
2:07.1	It was hard moments for me.
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