The commerce that retains on giving has taken one other flip.
Mavericks head coach and Corridor of Fame level guard Jason Kidd revealed Thursday that he nonetheless hasn’t spoken with Luka Doncic for the reason that commerce heard all over the world.
Doncic, now a member of the Lakers, was shockingly dealt from Dallas on Feb. 2 in a deal that noticed Anthony Davis and Max Christie go to the Mavericks in change for the Slovenian celebrity as the principle change of what grew to become a three-team transaction that included the Jazz.
As a visitor on the “Dan Patrick Present,” Kidd admitted that he’s had no contact with Doncic since that day.
“I texted him that morning, and that’s the final time I’ve talked to him,” Kidd stated to Patrick. “I don’t assume he [Doncic] was too completely happy. From the expertise of being traded, possibly being stunned, upset. Emotions are excessive. However I beloved the chance of teaching Luka. He’s an unbelievable individual, and everyone knows his expertise. He’s the most effective on the earth.”
After all, since then, the Mavericks’ season went right into a tailspin regardless of moments of showing to be aggressive after the commerce, though their free-fall was largely injury-related as Davis immediately strained his left adductor in his debut.
The Mavericks later misplaced Kyrie Irving as a consequence of a torn ACL, and the standouts P.J. Washington, Dereck Vigorous and Daniel Gafford all handled accidents as nicely.
Klay Thompson, Spencer Dinwiddie and Naji Marshall had been the one Mavericks to play a minimum of 57 video games with the staff final season.
After all, the Mavericks acquired a life raft tossed to them by the basketball gods with a No. 1 total decide on this yr’s draft regardless of having a 1.8 p.c probability at profitable the lottery earlier within the week.
The Mavericks will nearly definitely take Duke star Cooper Flagg at No. 1 total, giving them a second wind after the Doncic commerce and dropping within the play-in spherical one season faraway from their 2024 Western Convention championship.