Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily.

Coming up, Luca is a Laker.

Officially he made his debut.

We're going to do a deep dive on that with Claire Dalloon from The Guardian.

Something weird is happening in Dallas.

We're going to talk about that a little bit.

And we've got All-Star Replacements, which means somebody else got snubbed.

Good morning, everybody.

Good morning, S.

Before we get started, guys, wanted to tell you guys about Connection Sports Edition, a new game for sports fans from the Athletic S. You told me you had a chance to give it a test drive. It's a daily dose of trivia. And apparently it's a lot of fun. How is it?

First of all, I love connections generally. Me and my wife play it all the time.

So having a sports version of this where we can kind of just rack our brain over different categories is exciting for me to do. So yeah, shout out to that. Connections. Very, very cool.

That's big news. We got that today. You guys can check that out at theathletic.com slash connections.

So go and do that.

Normally on a day like this, we would be just starting to show hot and heavy,

talking about Luca Donchich, you know, he's a Laker.

But we got to go to his old team, the Dallas Mavericks.

Number one, they were involved in kind of a crazy game against Sacramento Kings.

They lost in overtime on a Demargo Rosen, beautiful floater where he just splits the defense

with a master class game from him.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

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