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When I first seen the screenshot, I thought Shams X account got hacked, got on X to check and he literally had just broken the news, I was shocked to say the least. With the trade deadline looming, this one wasn't even 10,000 miles on the radar.

In today's NBA, Luka is definitely one of the greatest players in the world, still only 25 years old, but conditioning & injuries have always been issues, and it's been reported that's one of the main reasons this trade happened. He was also up for a super-max deal this off-season, $345 million over 5 years was the expected deal, and maybe Dallas didn't want to be on the hook for that much money and tied to the deal if he was going to continue to be out of shape and injured. Crazy that the Lakers were the only team Dallas even knew that Luka was up for a trade, been all kinds of conspiracies going around about it.

As for AD, he definitely had a great chemistry with Lebron, had a great run with LA with a championship in 2020, but the NBA is a business, to get something back big in return, you have to give up something big as well. Davis has been an All-NBA caliber player his whole career, but not even sure he has been at Luka's level. I do like this trade for Dallas tho, pairing AD up with Kyrie, and the Mavericks didn't have to give up any of their other key role players in this deal.

Funny how far the league has come. It was 15 years ago that then commissioner, the late David Stern, literally vetoed a trade that would've sent Chris Paul to the Lakers, now under commissioner Adam Silver, it's the wild west out there. Just proves that anyone can be moved, and no one would ever know about it.