LUKA DONCIC TRADED TO THE LAKERS EMERGENCY POD
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🗓️ 2 February 2025
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Summary
The Los Angeles Lakers have traded for Luka Doncic and we are here to break it all down. Es Baraheni, Zena Keita, and Alex Speers give a Birds Eye view of the trade, why would Dallas do this, how the Lakers accomplished it and much more.
In Part 2, Jason Gallagher of the Young Man and the Three break down the trade from a Mavs fan perspective and if there could be a possible mutiny?
Host: Es Baraheni, Zena Keita and Alex Speers
With: Jason Gallagher
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Editor: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to an emergency version of the athletic NBA daily. |
| 0:15.5 | Emergency wouldn't even describe it the right way. This is like DefCon 5. I don't even know. |
| 0:21.8 | It's like the clock has struck midnight. I don't even know how to react at this point here with |
| 0:26.1 | Alex Spears and Zena Keda. Guys, Luca Donchich was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. Anthony |
| 0:34.2 | Davis traded to the Dallas Mavericks. It's a three-team deal. |
| 0:38.5 | My head is spinning just trying to wrap my brain around everything that has happened right now. |
| 0:45.3 | It's incredible to think about this. |
| 0:47.6 | I'll just break down the trade before we get into this. |
| 0:49.5 | So the Lakers receive Luca Donchich, Maxie Cleaver, and Marquif Morris. |
| 0:53.9 | Okay. The Mavericks receive Anthony Davis, |
| 0:56.8 | Max Christie, a 2029 Lakers first, and then the Jazz received Jalen Hood-Shafino, a 2025 |
| 1:04.6 | Clipper second, and a bunch of whatever. Anyways, how do you guys feel? Instant reactions because I'm just, I'm speechless. |
| 1:13.4 | We're supposed to do a podcast, but I'm still speechless about this entire situation. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm laughing that you couldn't, I'm just laughing that you couldn't even get the trade out clearly. |
| 1:24.4 | Like you even were like in disbelief as you're listing it out and I feel that |
| 1:29.3 | that's it's one of those I was literally on my way back home from a baby shower then we |
| 1:34.9 | went to dinner and I said it out loud to my boyfriend who is a huge Lakers fan and I go |
| 1:41.9 | Anthony Davis just left he's gone and he's he's like, you're joking. You're affing joking. I was like, no, no. For Luca Donchich, I mean, we could have pulled the car over. He was like, there's no way. There's no way. I'm like scrolling. It is, it's one of those unbelievable moments. I'll say this last thing too. As I'm scrolling through Twitter to figure out what the heck is going on on blue sky, |
| 2:03.8 | trying to figure out what this going on. |
| 2:05.2 | I see David Aldridge's tweet. |
| 2:08.4 | Did you guys see it? |
| 2:09.9 | What David Alder just tweeted? |
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