Luka Doncic getting traded to the Lakers for Anthony Davis was not one thing anybody noticed coming outdoors of Nico Harrison, Rob Pelinka, and a handful of different folks within the Mavs and Lakers entrance places of work. The players involved didn’t know it was happening, the co-stars nonetheless left on the 2 groups didn’t comprehend it was occurring, and fans and other folks across the league positive as hell didn’t comprehend it was occurring.
As phrase broke late Saturday evening, it unfold throughout the league quickly and reactions began to pour in. Stars across the league tweeted out their disbelief, LeBron James needed to shut down a rumor he had “grown annoyed” with Anthony Davis, and in Portland, the Suns and Blazers were learning about it and discussing amongst themselves on the bench late in a fourth quarter blowout win by the Blazers. Kevin Durant spoke intimately about what the commerce meant and the way it might embolden different entrance places of work to look to tug the plug and make a dramatic commerce if issues don’t appear to be working — which was maybe a little bit of him questioning what would possibly occur to the listless Suns this week.
Devin Booker, however, determined to have a little bit of enjoyable on the expense of the Mavs, as they’ve by no means let him dwell down the Recreation 7 blowout win in Phoenix that Luka led in 2022. The image of Luka looking at Booker throughout some late free throws grew to become an immediate meme and one the Mavs have used often, together with only a few days in the past as a part of a social media development of posting a photograph with no context, with a caption of “okay final one we swear”.
Booker, within the wee hours of Sunday morning, retweeted that with “saved their phrase” in an elite post — and one which led Mavs followers already of their emotions to let loose a few of their anger on the Suns star guard.
It’s a wonderful publish, and I’ve to think about it made his teammate Kevin Durant, who’s the NBA’s finest poster, very proud to see him hearth this one off. Mavs/Doncic followers, after all, used it as one other alternative to remind Booker that Doncic has dominated that matchup and this doesn’t change that, however Booker is actually having fun with seeing Mavs followers in shambles over the commerce after listening to a lot from them in recent times.
