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Why Luka Dončić’s Trade to LA is Business as Usual for the NBA

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On Saturday night, the sports world got hit with the news of the Dallas Mavericks’ shocking decision to trade superstar Luka Dončić, as well as Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and their 2029 first-round draft pick. Senior ESPN NBA writer Tim Bontemps joins host Clinton Yates to discuss the Mavericks’ motives and the long history of Lakers Exceptionalism that set the stage for this trade, and how the seismic shift will reverberate throughout the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good times. Tim Bontemps. I texted you last night something that said, is this real or was this a, dare I say, a ball sack sports situation? I say all that to say that we are redefining what the term emergency pod even means in America. How much sleep did you get last night, sir?

0:19.4

Or now doing the windy sleep update.

0:22.2

I went to bed at 6.30.

0:26.0

Wow.

0:26.5

I think.

0:27.1

Okay.

0:28.0

It's probably three hours.

0:30.0

Yeah, look, this was an all-time moment in the history of the league.

0:37.8

You are one of probably five dozen people or more that hit me in a five-minute span and

0:43.3

asked me if Shams's tweet was accurate or if he had been hacked, whether that was

0:47.6

friends, other media people, lots of executives and coaches.

0:51.6

I mean, it's a shocking a trade as you'll ever see,

0:55.3

and it's going to have a lot of ramifications that reverberate for a long time.

1:00.1

What do we think your fellow Bonnie Adrian Borgianowski is doing at this moment,

1:06.6

kicking his feet up and enjoying his life since this is no longer part of the nonsense he has to deal

1:11.9

with. I haven't talked to Adrian in the last 12 hours or so, but Bonaventure had a huge win

1:17.5

Saturday afternoon, celebrated the 25th anniversary of our 2000 team making the NCAA

1:23.8

tournament, losing a epic game to Tashan Prince and the Kentucky Wildcats.

1:27.7

I remember that.

1:28.5

So I think that, I think AJ had a very good Saturday.

1:32.6

And my guess is he slept very comfortably Saturday night.

1:41.5

On Saturday night, the sports world got hit with some news that while shocking in the moment,

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