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SVP's One Big Thing: Luka, Kyrie and the evaporation of the Mavericks

Once a game, minimum, as I watch LA, I will say out loud: Luka Doncic plays for the Los Angeles Lakers.

It's jarring to see him in the jersey and all that. Beyond the optics is the reality. A multiyear first team All-NBA player didn't just switch teams late at night one weekend in February. He joined the Lakers and left a team he led to the finals a season ago. Dallas Mavericks fans were stunned and irate in the way a fan base is when they have absolutely no idea something so unexpected isn't just a possibility .