Luka Doncic drives the ball against Anthony Davis during a game last season. Saturday night's trade may come at a serious price for Doncic, who now can't sign a five-year supermax contract extension this summer that could have been worth around $345 million US.
Luka Doncic led Dallas to the NBA Finals last season. Anthony Davis won a championship with the Los Angeles Lakers. They have switched teams now — in an absolute blockbuster.Luka Doncic drives the ball against Anthony Davis during a game last season. Saturday night's trade may come at a serious price for Doncic, who now can't sign a five-year supermax contract extension this summer that could have been worth around $345 million US. Luka Doncic led Dallas to the NBA Finals last season.
The trade news broke about an hour after the Lakers beat New York at Madison Square Garden. Davis was not with the Lakers for the game; he has been back in Los Angeles because of an abdominal injury that needed assessing. "We really feel like we got ahead of what was going to be a tumultuous summer, him being eligible for the supermax and also a year away from him being able to opt out of any contract," Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison told The Dallas Morning News. "And so we really felt like we got out in front of that. We know teams, they've had it out there, teams have been loading up to try to sign him once that comes available.
There was one game still going on in the NBA on Saturday night when reports began swirling of the trade, that being Phoenix-Portland. Suns guard Devin Booker said someone in the stands told him and his teammates of the trade.Booker wasn't trying to be funny. He just thought what many probably thought — that there was no way the Mavs would move Doncic.
"Wait what?" posted Patrick Mahomes, the star Kansas City quarterback who sits courtside at Mavs games occasionally during the off-season, NBA playoffs included.
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