Luka Doncic and the most shocking trade in NBA history, LeBron’s reaction, WNBA trades and relationships, and Noah Lyles won’t stop stirring the pot
The Sports Gossip Show
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4.8 • 740 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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WOW, folks, The Sports Gossip Show is coming at you a day early because we need to dissect the most shocking trade in NBA history (also because Charlotte is traveling for the Super Bowl, give a shout if you’ll be in New Orleans!).
The Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Doncic and he’s on the Los Angeles Lakers now, in exchange for Lakers big man Anthony Davis. Madeline and Charlotte break down all of the potential thought processes behind the massive move that Mavs GM Nico Harrison made under the cover of night with his old buddy Rob Pelinka, who just so happens to be the GM of the Lakers. The video of Luka arriving in LA is really something, and Lakers star LeBron James claims he didn’t know about any of this.
There was also a lot of movement in the WNBA recently. DeWanna Bonner and her girlfriend Alyssa Thomas were sent to different teams, and NaLyssa Smith and Dijonai Carrington, who are in a relationship, are now on the Dallas Wings together. And the Connecticut Sun…no longer have their entire starting lineup from 2024?
Noah Lyles, US track and field star and technically the fastest man in the world after the 2024 Olympics, has once again challenged NFL player Tyreek Hill to a race (?). Kevin Love seems like he’s trying to become a meme lord — is this his retirement plan? The gals once again check in on Bill Belichick and his girlfriend Jordon Hudson, because there might be trouble in paradise given recent Instagram activity. And Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman went to a WWE match!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello. How do I sound? |
| 0:02.0 | One, two, three. Good. Good. How do I sound? |
| 0:05.3 | Sound good to me. Nice sweatshirt. Nice sweatshirt to you too. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you. I schemed it. What? It was so wrinkled. It was so. And you know what I realized, Alan? |
| 0:14.5 | What? Sometimes the difference between, like, I'll look at pictures of people in clothes on, like, people in like, if I'm looking at clothes on a website, I'm like, why do they look so, like, neat and cool? And it's because their clothes aren't wrinkly. Yeah, it's steamed. And they're probably clipped in the back to actually make it fit them exactly how it should. See, you know this. Tricks for the trade. You know this. |
| 0:37.5 | Tricks for the trade. |
| 0:38.8 | Well, yours is cooler. |
| 0:39.8 | Well, yeah, we're in reping my T's swizzle. |
| 0:43.7 | Oh, that's tough one. |
| 0:47.0 | You don't like that? |
| 0:49.0 | No, I support you and everything. |
| 0:52.8 | Okay, this is fun. |
| 0:53.8 | Okay. I'm sorry. Okay, this is fine. Hi, Charlotte. |
| 1:07.5 | Madeline. |
| 1:08.7 | Are you so going to surprise me every week now with a new greeting? Like, it didn't. Hi, Charlotte. Madeline. How you doing? |
| 1:14.1 | Are you so going to surprise me every week now with a new greeting? |
| 1:16.5 | Like, it didn't even, it's just come out of me. |
| 1:17.7 | It's just happened. |
| 1:19.2 | I believe it just came out of you. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah, no, you didn't plan that. |
| 1:21.5 | How's it going? |
| 1:21.9 | Great. |
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