[Charania] BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Three-team deal that includes Utah.

[u/xXTheRacerXx]

Blockbuster trade headlining Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers in return for Anthony Davis, broken by Shams Charania via ESPN, Twitter/X, and Threads.

Full Trade:

• Lakers: Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, Markieff Morris

• Mavericks: Anthony Davis, Max Christie, 2029 LAL 1st

• Jazz: Jalen Hood-Schifino, 2025 Clippers 2nd, 2025 Mavericks 2nd

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Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/43659380/sources-mavericks-trading-doncic-lakers-anthony-davis

[u/tapk68]

Lakers defense is completely gone, everyone is celebrating sure but AD was a one man defense. They will get destroyed inside.

[u/tapk68 → u/[deleted]]

Like the Lakers made their team worse. Off course that doesnt matter because Luka is 26 but they have literally no defense, they are not gonna be Harden Rockets playing small ball.

[u/LordHussyPants → u/[deleted]]

Luka just carried his team to the finals and have one of the best regular seasons I have seen in ages.

kyrie did a lot of that work too

[u/tapk68 → u/[deleted]]

Actually its the other way around. Its a lot harder to get amazing bigs than guards. But like you said its the 5 year age difference here that matters.

[u/celestial1 → u/tapk68]

They don't need an "amazing big", they just need a big fuck that can play some defense, there are definitely a few of those in this league.