Really good (long) ESPN article on how the Luka-Davis trade happened

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https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/43676830/how-stunning-luka-doncic-anthony-davis-trade-came-together-los-angeles-lakers-dallas-mavericks

Dallas had concerns about Luka’s weight and conditioning. They changed the training staff to remove people too friendly to Luka. They just weren’t sure they wanted to see him as their long term guy.

The Lakers kept this super secret. They’d been burned before both letting info get out and having trades negated.

Mark Cuban had no part of this as he’s not in ownership anymore. Cuban was a huge Luka fan so this probably wouldn’t have happened if he were still in the mix.

Utah - Danny Ainge - the 3rd party in this trade were not aware of who was being traded by the other teams until about an hour before the story broke.