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Smith reacting to the trade heard around the world.

It was Luka Donchik for Anthony Davis and it stopped the conversation everywhere.

That is the twenty five year old Luka arriving in L.A. last night meeting with the Lakers general manager Rob Polenka and soon enough his new teammate LeBron James Mavericks general manager Niko Harrison yesterday meeting the media explaining his motivation to deal Donchik for Davis.

It's right along with our time frame to win now and win in the future and in the future to me is three four years from now the future ten years from now.

No I don't think they probably bear me in jail or we bear ourselves.

So we've got we've got charms we got windy.

Again Michael Wilbon and Steven Smith and Charles Barkley all on the way.

I cannot begin to tell you how many people asked me if you had been hacked.

I can't possibly fathom how many people must have asked you if you had been hacked.

Take everybody through everything they need to know how in the wide wide world did we get from where we were Saturday morning to where we are now.

Yeah I mean I thought my phone was hacked when I got the text messages with the details of the trade.

And when I got wind of the deal but you peel back the curtain and for the Mavericks they honestly internally believe that this move puts them in a better position to win a championship.

Of course there are issues that they had obviously with Luka Dodgers his conditioning levels to an extent.

And when you think about the next several months the next few years that we're going to know the exact answer to whether they were right in this decision or with it or if they were wrong.

And and they they want to pair Anthony Davis as a center defensively with Kyrie Irving.

They probably need another addition as well in the back where they have three first round picks now that they can use.

And I don't think the Lakers at any point this season expected to be in contention to moving Anthony Davis.

But when Nico Harrison the Mavericks general manager called and offered Luka Dodgers that he would change the game.

So there's two separate parts of this that don't fully add up to me.

One of them is the Mavericks trading a superstar at this age and development in his career.

Let's put that one to the side for a second.

The other is if I'm understanding everything I've read from Shams and from you and everybody else it's that this deal just kind of got done like that as opposed to opening it up.

I am a surprise that this is all they got for Luka Dodgers.

Yeah within the league what the reaction was this.

Even if you decide that Luka Donchik is not going to be your franchise player and that's a repudiation of one of the highest levels we've ever seen.

But there are people in the league who say OK the Mavericks have more information on Luka than anybody else.

If this is what they believe then they made their decision.

People in the league can kind of get that.

What people in the league don't understand is why they wouldn't then open this up to a wide market to get the best deal and get a trade a bidding war going.

But OK if the Mavericks decided that the player they wanted no matter what bidding war happened was Anthony Davis.

OK you make a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers.

But within that deal with the Lakers what the league can't understand is how do you not get everything from them.

How do you not get both first round picks that they have.

Heck even if you couldn't get Austin Reeves because the mechanics of doing a trade are much more difficult.

How do you not get both first round draft picks the Lakers have.

What was left on the table with the Lakers not to mention what could have been left on the table across the rest of the league.

Chams it before I bring the other guys in.

Is there any part of that you can fill in here as far as the specifics of the trade and why the Mavs did or didn't get whatever it is they got.

Well I think they targeted Anthony Davis in this deal.

Obviously the Lakers they know they never they've never wanted to really part with Austin Reeves unless they got a transcendent player.

Well Luka Dodgers is a transcendent player.

But you know in these negotiations they did give up a first something they gave up Max Christie and like Brian said and everyone around the league has pointed the same thing out as why didn't they open it up to a bidding war.

The questions as far as why they didn't get everything.

They just you know the Lakers obviously stood firm.

First of all what was your first reaction when you this thing breaks and when you realize charms had not been hacked in this deal had actually taken place.

What was the first thought that went through your mind.

Well like everybody else I'm laying there and I was in bed and when I get the news and I like my phone's blowing up and finally you start to go man something going on at home.

So I roll over I grab my phone I see 32 missed messages and I'm like what does that say.

So shock doesn't begin to describe the way I feel about this trade.

I'm more shocked about this trade than I have been about any trade in any sport at any time ever.

You're talking about a once in a generational talent.

The best offensive player that this organization has ever had and he's twenty five years old.

I understand whatever concerns they have are probably legitimate about some of his conditioning issues if that's really what this is about.

But I'm telling you right now there is nothing that I can say that would adequately describe how shocked not only I am every single person I talk to in this league.

I was reading through your notes you think that this is a sea change that this is a new time in the NBA.

This signals something entirely new happening in the NBA.

I think we're transitioning from player empowerment to ownership empowerment.

You know over the last several months I've been spending a lot of time with a lot of different owners and one of the common things I continue to hear is around this affinity for the NFL and the way the NFL operates.

Now there are a couple of players maybe a handful that can dictate terms and can kind of force the issue.

But for the most part you know that the owners are the ones that have the power.

And I think now you have a new ownership group and just like like said a once in a generational type player right.

Like think about that once in a generation type player was moved because I don't think this had anything to do with on the court.

I don't think ownership and Niko Harrison felt comfortable where it meant for the future of the organization.

And that's a new ownership group since Mark Cuban has been dwindled down a little bit stating like hey look this is my organization.

This isn't a situation that's going to be forced like a Kauai Leonard.

This isn't going to be a situation that can be forced like a Jimmy Butler.

I'm going to tell you what I want to do with my franchise.

And I think that is a huge sea-change because even agents feel like there is no player that is not on notice right now.

And I think actually Greeney is going to give a lot of owners the confidence who may have been on that that teetering line of well I'm afraid of the backlash from the media I'm afraid of the player empowerment from other players wanting to come to my organization.

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