A MAN BY the name of Jake Reedy was drinking with friends at Local Public Eatery in the Knox-Henderson neighborhood of Dallas when his phone lit up in front of him. It was 11:12 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1. Phones began to ping and buzz and light up across the dimly lit room. The whole bar, he said, saw the news at the same time. Luka Doncic? Traded?
"No one believed it," he said.
Four minutes later, ESPN's Shams Charania followed up. It was real. In the dead of night, Doncic had been traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, along with two other players for All-Star Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a future first-round pick.