Inside the Luka Doncic trade + Lakers deadline plans

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Los Angeles Lakers shocked the world by acquiring Luka Doncic via trade with the Dallas Mavericks. The Athletic’s Senior National Writer, Sam Amick guides Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni inside the Lakers negotiation process, the Mavericks decision to trade Luka, De’Aaron Fox’s move to San Antonio, and the Kings acquisition of Zach LaVine. Then, the Athletic’s Jovan Buha joins the show to look at the Lakers’ roster, their trade deadline plans, and LeBron James’s fit with Luka. Host: Dave DuFour With: Es Baraheni, Sam Amick & Jovan Buha Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht Audio Producer: Grayson Moody Read Sam’s story on the trade: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6108360/2025/02/03/luka-doncic-nba-trade-negotiations-lakers-mavericks/ Submit your questions to The Athletic NBA Daily mailbag: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5939460/2024/11/25/nba-podcast-mailbag-athletic-daily/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.3	Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.
1:08.7	It's trade deadline week, but guess what?
1:11.1	Hey, they're still playing basketball games that count.
1:13.2	So we're going to talk about those a little bit.
1:14.5	We got Sam Amick to go inside the Luca Dodget to the Lakers trade, which shocked the world.
1:20.2	And we got Yovon Buha to go inside the future of the Lakers, how they're going to build around Luka.
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