They traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers, returning Anthony Davis who will miss extended time with an injury. While Davis suffering an injury in his Mavericks debut couldn't have been foreseen,

The sports world is still grasping to make sense of the Dallas Mavericks decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers on Feb. 2. Doncic, who had just led the Mavericks to the NBA Finals, was shipped off for Anthony Davis with his prime still on the horizon at 25-years-old.

New Mavericks CEO Rick Welts has publicly discussed the Luka Dončić trade that sent him from Dallas to the Los Angeles Lakers. In an interview with Brad Townsend of the Dallas Morning News, he addressed how he "probably underestimated the reaction" the fans had to the recent Dončić trade.