ESPN Insider Brian Windhorst broke down the trade shortly after it happened and said he got a wild text message from a current unnamed NBA All-Star who shared his thoughts on what the Mavs must think about Doncic. “I had a current NBA All-Star text me and say, ‘Do you know how much the Mavericks must hate Luka?’” Windhorst said on ESPN.

This was expected to be one of the quietest trade deadlines in recent years. The NBA always has a flair for the dramatic, though, and ESPN's Shams Charania broke a trade in the early hours of Sunday morning that was so unbelievable that he had to reiterate that it was "1000 percent real" before people realized that he wasn't hacked.

The Mavericks need to win multiple championships after making the shocking decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Lakers.