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Team assesses losing Luka to West rival Lakers in surprise deal 3 Feb 2025 - The Dallas Morning News MIKE CURTIS mike.curtis@dallasnews.com CLEVELAND — The Mavericks team that tipped off against the Cavaliers on Sunday looked different, and it’ll be awhile before fans recognize a lineup without Luka Doncic.2023 File Photo/elías Valverde IILuka Doncic, driving against the Lakers’ Anthony Davis, has averaged 28.6 points, 8.7 rebounds and 8.3 assists in 61⁄2 seasons with the Mavericks. After 61⁄2 seasons as the heir apparent to Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki, Doncic is no longer the centerpiece of the franchise that acquired him in a 2018 draft-night trade. A little after 11 p.m. Saturday, the Mavericks’ superstar guard was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in a blockbuster megadeal for Anthony Davis. Doncic — an Mvp-caliber player when healthy who’s in the prime of his career — will join the Lakers and another megastar in Lebron James. Before the game began, the Mavericks had an open lo...

Disappointment, anger, confusion remain after deal announced “I’m a Mavs fan through and through.  I loved watching Luka.  He was everything to me.  He gave us hope. Seeing him was just spectacular.  It was everything Dallas needed.”    - West Dallas resident Kevin Flores 3 Feb 2025 - The Dallas Morning News By SHAWN MCFARLAND Staff Writer  shawn.mcfarland@dallasnews.com  Staff writer Lia Assimakopoulos contributed to this report. From page 1C Sometime after 1 a.m. on Sunday morning, outside The Old Monk at the intersection of Henderson and Willis avenues, Nick Hurley and Stewart Svoboda turned from bargoers into basketball analysts.Lia Assimakopoulos/staffKevin (left) and Aron Flores drove to American Airlines Center on Saturday night to sit by the Dirk Nowitzki statue in an attempt to process their emotions about the trade. Hurley, a Los Angeles transplant, tried to rationalize the deal that landed his hometown team a Dallas icon. Svoboda, an Au...

Smiley N. Pool/staff Photographer - The Mavericks sent Luka Doncic (77) to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Anthony Davis. As part of the deal, Dallas also traded Markieff Morris and the injured Maxi Kleber to LA in return for Max Christie and a 2029 first-round draft pick. General Manager Nico Harrison and head coach Jason Kidd will never outlive the decision to send Doncic off to LA, Kevin Sherrington writes. 3 Feb 2025 The Dallas Morning News The problem with growing up in Houston in the ’60s and ’70s was the pro sports franchises always seemed in competition to see who could leave the biggest scar on the city’s soul. Losing was bad enough. Far worse was the semiannual dispersal of stars who’d made losing livable. We exulted in their singular acts of greatness right up to the moment they were ripped from our rosters, if not hearts, by those who would tell us they were only acting for the good of the franchise. Ray Patterson used that excuse when he traded Elvin Hayes for a guy...

Najbolj odmevna menjava v zgodovini košarke je Luko Dončića prinesla iz Dallasa v LA Lakers – Dvorano si bo delil z Anžetom Kopitarjem 3 Feb 2025 - Delo (Slovenia) Peter Zalokar »Če bom moral kdaj izbirati med ženo in Dončićem, me poiščite pri odvetniku, ko izpolnjujeva ločitvene papirje,« je pred leti dejal Mark Cuban. V kakšnem odnosu je zdaj manjšinski lastnik košarkarjev Dallasa z ženo, ni znano, jasno pa je, da Luka Dončić po zgodovinski menjavi zapušča Teksas in se bo pridružil eni najbolj ikoničnih franšiz v ligi NBA – Los Angeles Lakers.Foto Jerome Miron/USa Today SportsLuka Dončić je večkrat povedal, da je LeBron James njegov vzornik. Nočni »trade« močno odmeva na obeh straneh luže, večinsko mnenje pa je, da se je Dallas ustrelil v koleno. Luke ni vprašal nihče, gotovo pa bo užival v družbi svojega vzornika LeBrona Jamesa in navduševal navijača iz prve vrste Jacka Nicholsona. Sredi noči se običajno sklepajo sumljivi posli. »Kaj, kako, nemogoče! Lažna novica. Umetna inteligenca...

Foto Kevin Kolczynski/Reuters -  Kobe Bryant e compagni (davanti a sinistra, con Luke Walton, Pau Gasol, Sasha Vujacic e Derek Fisher, da sinistra) festeggiano la vittoria inaugurale contro Orlando il 14 giugno 2009. Dove sta andando Luka Doncic  Incontra la squadra che ha definito la NBA e una franchigia difficile da eguagliare per popolarità, storia e influenza 3 febbraio 2025 - Delo (Slovenia) Žan Urbanija Dove va Luka Dončić, chi sono i Los Angeles Lakers? I Lakers sono più di una semplice squadra di basket: sono un'istituzione che trascende lo sport e va al cuore dello stile di vita californiano. Sono storia, successo, tradizione e glamour in una delle franchigie più riconoscibili del mondo dello sport. Con 17 campionati, sono la seconda squadra più vincente nella storia dell'NBA, dietro solo agli eterni rivali di Boston, che ne hanno di più. Ma i Lakers non sono l'unica squadra a collezionare anelli. Sono una franchigia che ha influenzato l'evoluzione della pallac...

Vedenie tímu dallas Mavericks sa obávalo, v akej forme sa vráti po zranení Luka Dončič. slovinec mal po tejto sezóne nárok na predĺženie kontraktu. 3 Feb 2025 - Hospodárske noviny Martin Rendek martin.rendek@mafraslovakia.sk ©hn Bratislava – Najslávnejšia basketbalová liga sveta NBA zažila výnimočnú udalosť. V elitnej zámorskej profilige sa totiž udiala na prvý pohľad neuskutočniteľná výmena. V hlavných úlohách boli manažmenty klubov Dallas Mavericks a Los Angeles Lakers, ktoré pristúpili k utajenej výmene dvoch hviezdnych hráčov.FOTO: Profimedia.skLuka Dončič (vpravo) v súboji proti Anthonymu Davisovi. Obe hviezdy menia v rámci megatrejdu NBA klub. Po novom tak budú fanúšikovia už vídavať slovinského rozohrávača Luku Dončiča v drese tímu Los Angeles Lakers. Do druhého najväčšieho mesta Spojených štátov sa Dončič sťahuje z tímu Dallas Mavericks, v ktorého farbách strávil celú doterajšiu kariéru v NBA, teda už od sezóny 2018/2019. Opačným smerom putuje skúsený pivot Anthony Davis, ktorý...

3 Feb 2025 - The Guardian Barney Ronay  Emirates Stadium - The best moment of this fun, boisterous, increasingly hallucinogenic afternoon for Arsenal’s supporters came with the game still in the balance, and with Manchester City yet to collapse like an inadequately constructed French meringue. It came, of course, from the prodigiously talented Myles Lewis-Skelly. Although it wasn’t perhaps the obvious one. With 62 minutes gone, Lewis-Skelly took a sharp pass from Declan Rice and twirled inside with an easy kind of grace, one of those players who just seems to have that naturally intimate relationship with the ball. Lewis-Skelly is an interesting footballer in lots of ways. He isn’t actually a full-back, or wasn’t before he came into the first team. Then again, full-back is a mutable thing now, the whizziest, most post-modern position on the pitch, engine of tactical reinvention, new lines and angles. We’re all inverted false-flank innovators these days. It says a lot about Lewis-Sk...

Luko Dončića je na naboru leta 2018 v svoje vrste kot 18-letnika pripeljal Dallas.  S tretjim izborom ga je sicer izbrala Atlanta, a je Dallas nato Atlanti ponudil peti izbor Traeja Younga in še dodaten izbor v prvem krogu nabora leta 2019 za Ljubljančana, ki je pri Teksašanih tako postal naslednik legendarnega Dirka Nowitzkega. USA Today  Dončić se iz Dallasa seli v Los Angeles Lakers V boj za prstan NBA bo moral z Jezerniki Slovenski košarkarski zvezdnik Luka Dončić bo kariero nadaljeval pri Los Angeles Lakers, kjer bo moči združil s slovitim LeBronom Jamesom, ki je tudi vzornik kapetana slovenske reprezentance. Po senzacionalni kupčiji, ki vključuje tri ekipe in več igralcev, bo v Dallas odšel Anthony Davis.  Jože Okorn 3 Feb 2025 - Dnevnik (Slovenija) Slovenski košarkarski zvezdnik Luka Dončić ni več član Dallas Mavericks v ligi NBA. V senzacionalni kupčiji treh klubov, Dallas, Los Angeles Lakers in Utah, se Dončić seli v Kalifornijo k Los Angeles Lakers, za kat...

3 Feb 2025 - Los Angeles Times By Dan Woike From page D1 NEW YORK — If Madison Square Garden is indeed the NBA’s best stage, like JJ Redick described it, then what the Lakers decided to do before Saturday’s game against the New York Knicks must be considered a wardrobe change.Frank Franklin II Associated PressLeBRON JAMES got a triple-double to spearhead a win on the big stage of Madison Square Garden. After the Lakers got blown out in Philadelphia wearing their purple-andblack “City Edition” uniforms that read “LakeShow” across the front, Austin Reaves threw his in a pile and declared that they “should never” wear them again. Having lost nine of 10 in the special edition jerseys, the Lakers were scheduled to wear them against the Knicks. LeBron James and the Lakers made a last-minute uniform change. They decided to wear their “Statement Edition” instead. Well, statement made. Whether the threads had anything to do with it or not, the Lakers definitely looked like a better version of t...

3 Feb 2025 - Los Angeles Times By Dan Woike NEW YORK — In 2022, JJ Redick had Luka Doncic over to his Brooklyn home for his podcast, teasing him about an unpaid bet from when the two were briefly teammates with the Dallas Mavericks. During their conversation, Doncic admitted that he didn’t watch a lot of NBA basketball growing up, the six-plus-hour time change prohibitive for a lot of consumption. There was, though, one NBA player who Doncic loved watching, an oversized, do-everything player with unique skills worth emulating. And now, officially, Doncic and that player, LeBron James, are teammates. But this deal to trade Anthony Davis for Doncic, it was made with an eye for what’s next. The Lakers officially announced the trade Sunday, confirming that everyone in fact didn’t get their social media accounts hacked. Davis and Max Christie are gone, headed to the Mavericks to help their team win now because, as Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said, “defense wins championships.” “We are overwh...

Emil T. Lippe Associated Press -  LUKA DONCIC and LeBron James share a  laugh  after the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Lakers on Christmas in 2022.  Two of the NBA’s generational players will now join forces to lead a transformed Lakers roster. 3 Feb 2025 - Los Angeles Times The deal happened in almost total secrecy, The Times first hearing rumors of the Lakers and the Mavericks working together on something from a rival executive on Thursday night. The only problem was that no one knew what the teams were talking about.Emil T. Lippe Associated PressLUKA DONCIC and LeBron James share a laugh after the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Lakers on Christmas in 2022. Two of the NBA’s generational players will now join forces to lead a transformed Lakers roster. People in both organizations were asked about possible talks and no one even came close to mentioning the blockbuster deal, their responses ranging from “first I’ve heard of this” to “maybe it’s [Daniel] Gafford.” Dav...

Doncic should represent first step of Lakers’ greatness Doncic is great first step, but end of James era may be near 3 Feb 2025 - Los Angeles Times BILL PLASCHKE No, they didn’t. Yes, they did. They did! They did! They did! In making the boldest move in franchise history Saturday night, the Lakers rediscovered their fight, their future and the hearts of their fans. Rob Pelinka, I could kiss you. A team clogged with mediocrity just found hope again. A team that was being run into the ground by a superstar and his agent just regained control of its identity again. Fifty years after stealing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from the Milwaukee Bucks, the locals pulled off a similarly spectacular move with an equally compelling message. The Lakers are acting like the Lakers again. In a trade that is preposterous to even verbalize, much less actually complete, the Lakers sent superstar Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks in a three-team deal that brought them an even bigger superstar, Luka Doncic. Bloc...