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“My hands were shaking,” Charania said. “You had to make sure, like, every detail was right. You had to make sure there was no typo. And I just remember, like, my hands were trembling. I didn’t have a graphic to go with it because it was so sudden. Like, you don’t even have time to prep for it. It’s not like you make a Luka Dončić graphic beforehand. You don’t even know. And so, by the time I heard about it to the time I put it out, probably 5-7 minutes went by. Five confirmed sources on it.”

“I had up to like 300 text messages,” he recalled. “I answered five people on phone calls. Texts I couldn’t. It was just too many. Literally up to 300 messages. And everyone with the same message. ‘Did you get hacked? Did you get hacked?’ ‘Check your phone, you got hacked.’ Everyone had the same response. People were like, ‘Are you OK? Did something happen? Who took your phone?'”

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  1. >Literally up to 300 messages. And everyone with the same message. ‘Did you get hacked?

    I love that this was the universal response. The trade was so preposterous it had to be Shams getting hacked.

  2. My hands would too if I was the first to know about some BS trade that would’ve been rejected in 2k happened in real life lol

  5. Imagine making a trade so awful that when the top NBA reporter announces it, everyone assumes he was hacked and it’s fake

  6. Reporting that is on the same level as getting your first victory royal 

  7. The only reasonable explanation was “did you get hacked?” Let that sink in.

  8. Haha, how relatable, my hands were shaking too when I read the ESPN tweet confirming the trade was real.

  10. Dude it’s been like a month.

    I’m sure nationally it’ll die down once the season is over, I wonder when that’ll be the case for Dallas fans.

  11. When I first saw the tweet, even though it was from his account, I definitely just didn’t believe it.

  12. > Are you okay? Did something happen?

    Motherfuckers thought Shams got snatched off the street and kidnappers using his phone to tweet stupid trades until someone pays the ransom.

  13. Reputation is fucked forever if it’s not real but the more time goes by and you risk not being first

  16. Time to get rid of these fucking goobers. Just break it through the actual association. Who the fuck wants to see a pic of Shams when he has nothing to do with the trade

  18. I can dance all day, I can dance all day
    Try hit me, try hit me, c’mon!
    I mean my heart’s beating, my heart’s beating
    My hands are shaking, my hands are shaking
    But I’m still shooting, and I’m still getting them headshots like
    Boom headshot, boom headshot, boom headshot!

  19. I’m imagining him saying this with one hand shakily holding a coffee cup and spilling every so often while the other has a lit cigarette in it

  22. “No graphic” is crazy because Laker fans have a trove of photoshopped jerseys online of every top rookie and star in the league.

  24. He said he had to answer Pat McAfee on his Mac because his phone was overheating from all the texts. Wild dude

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