EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Luka Doncic was nearly asleep last Saturday night in Dallas when his phone buzzed. Only then did he learn that the Mavericks had just stunned the sports world by trading him to the Los Angeles Lakers.
"You can imagine how surprised I was," Doncic said. "I had to check if it was April 1. I didn't really believe it."
The superstar has begun to recover from that shock after his first two days in L.A., and he's growing increasingly excited about a new chapter with LeBron James and his famed new team on the West Coast.