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The Dallas Mavericks stunned the basketball world on Feb. 2, 2025, by trading Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers. There was widespread disbelief after NBA insider Shams Charania broke the news, and the full reaction of the Golden State Warriors‘ players to it has now gone viral.
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Stephen Curry and Draymond Green could not believe what they were seeing. Warriors’ assistant GM Kirk Lacob thought it had to be fake and wondered if Charania had been hacked. That’s what most of the world thought, too.
There was no way the Mavericks were trading a generational talent like Doncic, and there had been no murmurs regarding a move either. It soon dawned on the basketball world, though, that the Slovenian had indeed been moved.
The Lakers gave up Anthony Davis, Max Christie, and a 2029 first-round pick to acquire Doncic. It was quite an underwhelming return, which made the trade all the worse.
The Mavericks had offered Doncic to the Lakers in secrecy, which meant there was no bidding war. Teams around the league didn’t have the faintest idea that the five-time All-Star was being moved, as evidenced by Lacob’s reaction. The Warriors almost certainly would have tried to acquire Doncic if they knew.
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