{"id":831950,"date":"2026-09-10T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/831950\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T02:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:54:16","slug":"trump-luka-doncic-trade-is-worst-trade-in-the-history-of-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/831950\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Luka Doncic trade is &#8216;worst trade in the history of sports&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump addressed a major\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> moment while he spoke to a crowd inside the team&#8217;s arena Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a big Dallas Mavericks team, which is going to be hopefully good. I must tell you, I don&#8217;t understand the trade,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;That trade is not \u2014 what do I know about basketball? I would say it&#8217;s not going to go down as the greatest trade in the history of sports. It might go down as the worst trade in the history of sports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Babe will always be the worst trade. But, is it Luka?&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Maybe we could redo that trade. I redo deals all the time. We gotta redo that deal. I don&#8217;t get that deal. Some deals you understand; I understand deals. But that one I didn&#8217;t quite get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks and the Lakers stunned the sports world with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/02\/01\/dallas-mavericks-luka-doncic-trade-lakers-anthony-davis-max-christie\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Doncic trade in February 2025<\/a>. Dallas traded the Slovenian superstar to the Lakers for a package that included forward Anthony Davis, guard Max Christie and a 2029 first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is no stranger to sharing his thoughts on major sports topics across the country. He took the stage at American Airlines Center around 8:10 p.m. Wednesday night as Lee Greenwood sang &#8220;God Bless the USA.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump addressed a major\u00a0Dallas Mavericks moment while he spoke to a crowd inside the team&#8217;s arena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[1297,7,686,149,4057,166,6,87203,87234,87095,98686],"class_list":["post-831950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-article","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-tp-dallas-mavericks","tag-tp-luka-doncic","tag-tp-american-airlines-center","tag-tp-donald-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117244491428698034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}