Jimmy Butler on his reaction to the Luka Dončić/Anthony Davis trade:
“I thought… I thought it was fake like everybody else. So did you, I don’t even have to ask.”
September 9, 2025
Jimmy Butler on his reaction to the Luka Dončić/Anthony Davis trade:
“I thought… I thought it was fake like everybody else. So did you, I don’t even have to ask.”
19 comments
I hope the complete truth comes out one day. No way this was the action of Nico alone thats my narrative like JB said.
pain
This is why it became the benchmark for crazy NBA news. Other than Kobe’s death, no other news made _everyone_ think “oh this is just fake, Shams was hacked”. It wasn’t surprising, it was unthinkable.
Jimmy is a plain and simple kind of guy, keeps it straight up, of course theres more to this than they just decided to trade him for that
It’s absolutely, in my opinion, the biggest sports trade ever. There wasn’t even a single whisper Luka could be moved. It was so insane you have NBA players saying “nah that’s fake”. Idk if we’ll ever see a trade bigger than that.
It even had its own page on Wikipedia, that’s how ridiculous that trade was
I’ll always remember that night. Woke up in the middle of night to piss then checked my notifications. lol yea I must be seeing things. Then wow
Fire Nico
it was dumb then and still dumb now
we will never know the real reason which makes adds to the mystery of nba lore
it took me like a solid half hour of double-checking to actually believe it wasn’t some kind of really well-organized hoax
I remember that Lakers game that night where Max Christie clamped Jalen Brunson. I was thinking like damn that kid had finally figured it out. Then he got traded to the mavs where there were 3-4 better and experienced 3andD players.
Felt bad for the kid but I feel like he’ll be a Caruso type of player in the future.
The reason? Basketball reasons that’s why
Part of me still believes it’s fake.
That trade was so crazy Shams had to put out a follow-up tweet stating that he wasn’t hacked lol
I saw the news on Instagram when I was going to bed, and I was so tired I assumed it was one of those nba meme accounts making a joke.
oh we’re still talking about this ?
Even nba players know the trade was fixed lol
Non-basketball trade that was designed to be friendly to the Lakers.
19 comments
I hope the complete truth comes out one day. No way this was the action of Nico alone thats my narrative like JB said.
pain
This is why it became the benchmark for crazy NBA news. Other than Kobe’s death, no other news made _everyone_ think “oh this is just fake, Shams was hacked”. It wasn’t surprising, it was unthinkable.
Jimmy is a plain and simple kind of guy, keeps it straight up, of course theres more to this than they just decided to trade him for that
It’s absolutely, in my opinion, the biggest sports trade ever. There wasn’t even a single whisper Luka could be moved. It was so insane you have NBA players saying “nah that’s fake”. Idk if we’ll ever see a trade bigger than that.
It even had its own page on Wikipedia, that’s how ridiculous that trade was
I’ll always remember that night. Woke up in the middle of night to piss then checked my notifications. lol yea I must be seeing things. Then wow
Fire Nico
it was dumb then and still dumb now
we will never know the real reason which makes adds to the mystery of nba lore
it took me like a solid half hour of double-checking to actually believe it wasn’t some kind of really well-organized hoax
I remember that Lakers game that night where Max Christie clamped Jalen Brunson. I was thinking like damn that kid had finally figured it out. Then he got traded to the mavs where there were 3-4 better and experienced 3andD players.
Felt bad for the kid but I feel like he’ll be a Caruso type of player in the future.
The reason? Basketball reasons that’s why
Part of me still believes it’s fake.
That trade was so crazy Shams had to put out a follow-up tweet stating that he wasn’t hacked lol
I saw the news on Instagram when I was going to bed, and I was so tired I assumed it was one of those nba meme accounts making a joke.
oh we’re still talking about this ?
Even nba players know the trade was fixed lol
Non-basketball trade that was designed to be friendly to the Lakers.