Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.

It's trade deadline week, but guess what?

Hey, they're still playing basketball games that count.

So we're going to talk about those a little bit.

We got Sam Amick to go inside the Luca Dodger to the Lakers trade, which shocked the world.

And we got Yovon Buha to go inside the future of the Lakers, how they're going to build around Luca.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Quiet night in the NBA compared to the weekend.

Monday.

It felt like a Wednesday, man.

Yeah, I'm like, I'm numb to it now at this point.

It's like, oh, yes, there's basketball that, you know, you sometimes forget during the trade deadline that the reason people are doing all these trades is for the on-court product to be better, the basketball

to get better. So there you go. Basketball still happening. You almost think maybe they should

just like take a break. Like it should be the all-star break and trade deadline week. Right. Yeah,

like they do for soccer, you know, like a little window to just do everything. Right. Instead, Zach Levine happens to have paternity leave just in time to be traded to the Sacramento Kings. We're going to talk about that with Sam in a little bit. We're going to get into the Luca trade because Sam has all the details on how that happened. But let's talk about the games a little bit. Let's talk about those kings. The Kings got a big win. They beat the terrible wolves who, man, they've had a shaky couple days. They lost to the Wizards the other day, losing to the Kings who are short-handed because no Deerrin Fox out there. But end of this game, as I was just struck by how good it looked to have Malik Monk and

DeMarta Rosen just handing the ball off, taking turns, and just absolutely crushing the

wolf's defense, just waltzing into the paint.

And I started, you know, my head starts spinning.

You start thinking about it.

The defense is going to be awful, s. But they're going to have three guys that can go out there and get a bucket. They're going to be tough. And I think, I think to Levine's credit, he really can be the off ball guy there, space the floor, be a weapon off the catch. Elite at three points shooting. Incredible as a three point shooter.

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