In the wake of the bombshell Anthony Davis-Luka Doncic trade, everyone is wondering why, exactly, Dallas Mavericks team president Nico Harrison so easily agreed to give up his star player. Does he know something the public doesn't know? Do reports that the team was concerned about Doncic's weight hold water? Could it have to do with the possibility of paying Doncic on a supermax contract extension? Or was this just a potential managerial miss, considering the by-and-large consensus is that L.A. won this one?
All told, the final trade sends Los Angeles Lakers big man Anthony Davis, Max Christie, and a 2029 first-round pick to Dallas, and the Mavericks' Doncic, Maxi Kleber, and Markieff Morris to L.A. As a third party, the Utah Jazz also received the Lakers' Jalen Hood-Schifino, plus a 2025 second-round pick from both L.A. and Dallas.
