PHILADELPHIA -- Anthony Davis was sitting down for a movie night with his wife Saturday night in Los Angeles, shortly after watching his Los Angeles Lakers pull off arguably their best win of the season in beating the New York Knicks without him 3,000 or so miles away at Madison Square Garden, when the future Hall of Fame center received a call from Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka and coach J.J. Redick.
What he heard in that conversation -- that he was being traded to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for fellow future Hall of Famer Luka Doncic -- stunned him as much as it did the rest of the world when it was announced a short time later.