PHILADELPHIA — Jaylen Brown and Al Horford were both sound asleep when news of the NBA’s earth-shattering trade — which swapped superstars Luka Doncic and Anthony Davis — first unfolded late Saturday night.
But, Kristaps Porzingis, was awake and told reporters that he first learned about ESPN’s Shams Charania’s Tweet from someone on the Philadelphia street.
“He was like, ‘You heard about the trade?’” Porzingis said, then added that for a moment he thought the transaction involved him.
“What happened? Did I get traded?”
When Porzingis finally got the full scoop that two of the game’s top stars had been traded for one another, he was in complete shock, emphasizing to reporters that Doncic — his former teammate of three seasons in Dallas — was only 25 years old.