Anthony Davis to Mavericks: The Truth Behind The WILD Luka Doncic Trade Swap

Anthony Davis describes the moment he found out he was traded from the Lakers to the Mavericks for Luka Doncic. Rob Pelinka called with the news, then agent Rich Paul confirmed it. Davis checked Shams Charania's Twitter to verify before believing it actually happened.
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So you go to the Lakers, you then get traded to the Mavericks for Luka. First of all, I had no idea that I was even traded. Go upstairs, like, you know what, I'm gonna go upstairs, watch a movie. Get in the bed, turn the movie on, wife next to me, and you know, I'm trying to find a movie and I see Rob Pelinka calls me. I'm like, man, you know what, I'll hit him back tomorrow. Then he texted me, he was like, AD, when you get a chance to get back, me and coach got something to run by you. Rich said he tried to call me, I never got Rich's call. So Rich then called my wife, he was like, tell AD to call me, whatever, whatever. So I'm like, what up, Rich? He like, man, they just traded you to Dallas. And I'm like, "Man, shut up." I said, "Who the fuck they gonna trade me for, Luka?" Like, I was just saying like, "Who else can you trade me for on that team?" Niko was calling me. And I'm like, "Rich, I'm gonna call you back." Hello? "Yeah, I told you I was gonna come get you one day. I wanted you." I know Rich and Niko cool. Like, y'all playing a joke. Like, this ain't even real. He thought he foul play. Yeah, foul play. Foul play. Got you. So I call Rob Palenka back and I'm like, "Hello?" He like, "Yeah, you know, he telling me all this stuff and like, you know, when Bron's done, you know, want somebody to take over. We wanna go younger, you know, rebuild, all this." And I'm like, "Huh?" And my chef is right there in front of me. And I'm like, "I just got traded to the Mavs." He start laughing. "Yeah, big dawg." So I'm like, you know what? I know if this true. I go on X, go straight to Sham's page. Nothing. Go up the stairs, Joel Embiid calls me. Somebody else called me, another player. And I'm like, "Wait, hold on." So I go back to Sham's page and then there it is. Woo!
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