The Wildest Night In NBA History: When The Dallas Mavericks Traded Luka Doncic

The Dallas Mavericks’ decision to trade Luka Dončić led to the wildest night in NBA history. Mavs fans all over the world spent the night angry, in tears, or both. Group texts around the world went crazy. Shams had to tell us his Twitter account wasn’t hacked. And the DLLS Mavs crew went live at midnight to make sense of it all. One year after the worst trade in sports history, the crew looks back on that night to share some laughs, some frustration, and even some sadness.

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  6. Still an absolute nightmare. The amount of joy ripped from me that night that I still haven’t recouped is mind blowing. I‘ve still got so much love for Luka. If it wasn’t for Flagg, I might’ve have been done. Which is crazy with how much love I have for the Mavs.

  8. The didn’t just trade Luka they traded a franchise. How fortunate were we to have Dirk, a legend, and then for it to be passed to Luka dirk made me a fan and Luka carried that role for my daughter Sara. How I miss the days of her running around singing Luka Doncic, Luka, Luka Doncic!
    The memory of me drunk promising my wife that Luka was a killer and to not worry about the game, and then he proceeded to back me up and drain that 3 over Gobert, and her face lighting up and us jumping and yelling how much of a fucking killer he was.

    I MISS YOU LUKA, I MISS YOU MAVS

  12. I went to bed early for one of the few times that year. I had to wake up at 6am for work the next morning. When I checked my phone and saw a ton of notifications and message, I didn't really think anything of it, until one of the notifications made me double take. I don't even remember which one it was, but my whole sports reality collapsed in that moment. I started trying to make sense of what I was seeing, thinking "did he ask out????" No. "Was there a major falling out??" No. Then I saw the return, and I was even more confused. I must have been stirring a bit because my wife asked me what was wrong, and I cried when I told her they traded Luka. I then had to go to work, in which NO ONE I work closely with follows sports.

    It was such an isolating experience that morning. Having no one to process it with immediately, having to piece together what was happening, all while trying to get to work on time. My favorite player ever was traded under the cover of night.

    It will never not be frustrating at the lack of ANY logic in how Nico approached it. Even when being VERY generous and saying "well maybe he really thought Luka's body would fall apart and they wanted to move him before it was apparent to the rest of the league, the logic falls apart since they traded him for a guy nicknamed "street clothes" and did not shop him around the league. The worst trade in all of sports

    My Mavs love has begun to return with Cooper Flagg. The Mavs got the bail out of a lifetime when they won the lottery. I've also since become a DLLS Diehard and that discord has been amazing.

    Weirdly formatted and long rant is over. I miss Luka on the Mavs, but I'm grateful we get to experience Cooper Flagg together after the hell of last season

  16. It’s unfortunate that it does not matter how good Cooper becomes he’s still not Luka and this franchise broke something in me a year ago. I can’t even hate watch the Mavs. I’m just apathetic to anything from 2/1/2025 forward.

  18. this is legit the biggest thing associated with dfw sports probably since the cowboys were good 30 years ago.

    i remember going to cali and new york last year and in both places people immediately asked me how i felt about the trade or where i was when it came out the millisecond they found out im from dallas

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