I saw the trade on Reddit and thought it was just a troll. Then I saw the Shams tweet and thought he got hacked. And finally, I saw Shams say, no, this is actually real.

Even then, I STILL didn’t believe it.

I stayed awake the entire night, and I didn’t even realize hours had passed. It was crazy.

Also, can’t forget this gem from the press conference shortly after the trade:

Nico Harrison when asked how this trade helps the Mavericks long term: “The future to me is 3-4 years from now. 10 years from now I don’t know. They probably bury me and J[ason Kidd] by then. Or we bury ourselves.”

Right at midnight, the karma farming is real lol

Funnily enough, the league scheduled Knicks/Lakers in the garden AGAIN on Feb 1st, and again it’s a national tv game.

It is arguably the most lopsided trade in NBA history.

Probably why Nico got fucking fired lol.

What a coincidence that the magnitude of that trade was topped exactly one year later by the monumental DeAndre Hunter-Keon Ellis-Dennis Schroder trade that would forever change the landscape of the NBA itself.

I remember when everyone thought it was a hack

My girlfriend of 8 years had broken up with me a day before this happened. I was like.. at least I have the NBA to watch and then the team I support does this to my favourite player. Truly sad times.

and now we’re about to get Giannis for Rui, Gabe Vincent, Maxi Kleber & Dalton Knecht 😭🙏

I think I’ll forever think this is one big conspiracy. Like my brain would rather believe that this was all planned to give Lakers a star to set them up post-Lebron and for the Mavs to receive a no.1 pick than to believe a seemingly normal GM would make this trade.

Incomprehensible tragedy for Mavs fans. Like someone breaking in your house and stealing your 7 year old dog

I’ll never forget seeing a video on twitter that night where a couple’s wedding reception got absolutely nuked vibes wise. All the guests were just doomscrolling and talking about the trade.

Just such an awful trade man.

It happened in the dead of night too just outta nowhere lmao.

I saw the notification and went to bed because I thought it was a joke

Maxi Kleber needs to be in the headline at this point. He’s a better asset than Anthony Davis is RIGHT NOW, let alone long term but he’s still being treated like a 10th man

It’s weird because they’re trying to trade the guy they traded Luka for. It’s almost like the whole thing makes no sense and the NBA is rigged

The world went nuts.

Nico was in millions hitlist

Lakers fanx the happiest, shocked crazy

Me neither a lakers or a mavs fan still hate Nico for it

Thought that noti was fake when I first saw it

NICO FXXK YOU.

One of the wildest late nights in NBA history.

HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A STATUE

The first person to text me about it was this dude in one of my group chats who is always wrong about everything, extremely susceptible to rumors etc, so everyone was like Yeah alright bro lol. It didn’t feel real at all at first.

Without the Mavs getting cooper, this trade is so beyond the worst trade ever. But they got Cooper, and they are set for the future now. It’s hard to believe that the nba didn’t rig it after seeing the Mavs miss the playin. Now I say Mavs ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ win this with cooper.

Well, i was having a good night

Don’t remind the Mavs fans lol

I was just about to go to bed, I genuinely thought Shams was hacked. But then I saw some people who were credible, literally say Shams was not hacked.

Fuck Nico Harrison. The most stupid bitch in sports FO history. Period

I remember I was so pissed I ended up burning all my Mavs gear. Still haven’t watched one minute of Mavs ball live since

And on this same day 18 years ago, Pau Gasol was traded to the Lakers for Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, Marc Gasol’s draft rights, and two future first-round picks.

You can argue that was a more lopsided trade than the Luka one. And both trades benefited the same team, the Lakers 😂.

i still can’t believe that shit really happened

One year ago today I stopped being a Mavs fan and lost almost all interest in the NBA after over 20 years of following it daily. Crazy stuff

I’m just saying Lakers play Knicks again tomorrow 👀

I remember knowing about this because one of the casters of the Apex Legends Championship broke it in between games. LOL

Time is moving too fast

Told this story on here before but my dad had the flu. When the trade happened I went and told him. Next morning he wakes up and when he sees me says “I had the weirdest flu dream, that you told me Luka got traded”

Well did I have a surprise for him 😂 we laugh about it now.

That was nuts. The whole sports world ground to a halt to go crazy over that

one year later i still don’t believe it. call me dramatic but i still haven’t grasped that this dude is a laker. doesn’t matter how many highlights i see posted him in a lakers jersey still looks like photoshop. i’ve watched full lakers games and my mind still doesn’t accept that this guy is actually a player for los angeles. it literally just doesn’t make sense. like at the very worse he could have went to any other team and my mind would at least have a smoother time accepting it. but seeing him in lakers yellow is a living lie.

one of the few things the universe never intended was for luka to be on any team but the mavericks. let alone be on the lakers in a trade for AD and a bag of chips. just unreal man

Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace.

Fuck you for reminding me

The league as a whole makes more money when the Lakers have a big star. Mark Cuban sold Mavs prior to this. Cooper got sent to Mavs when they had 1.4% odds.

The ceremonial day of mourning has begun in Dallas

an underrated shitty part about this trade is that this trade might be the biggest thing associated with dfw sports since the cowboys were good 30 years ago. like if people know about sports and find out you are from dallas they will ask you about this.

i know people meme about it but this really is the dfw sports equivalent of “where were you when ⁹⁄₁₁ happened” like i cannot tell you how many people even outside of texas have asked me about this trade the second they find out im from dallas.

i went to cali for spring break and my friend friends asked me where i was, i went to nyc in the summer and the bodega guys asked me about it. this shit is legit going to follow us around forever (even if flagg ends up being 10x the player or we win multiple chips) bc this trade permeated into the mainstream.

there’s people in my life who i know could not name a single nba GM or coach if their life depended on it but they know who nico harrison is.

Today we got the biggest trade ever

its been a year? jesus.

Nico Harrison, the worst GM in NBA history.

Can’t believe it’s been a year. Fuck Nico on a personal and human level bro.

this man literally destroyed the hopes and dreams of millions of people

Don’t remind the Mavs fans lol

My ¹⁄₆

Threw my Marvel Rivals game when I saw the notification

HANG THE BANNER

I was in shock for hours

Woke up from a 1 hour nap and thought the world was ending, insane night

Lol

Just more LeBron shenanigans m

Feels like longer than a year.

Time sure flies!

*reacts in O’Shea Jackson Jr.* “its all over”

What the hell lol I am at the exact same place where I learned about this trade a year ago

I will forever HATE Nico! The Mavs Current Owners and everyone who was involved in the Luka trade. Luka & Flagg in 2028!! 💙🏀

Jey Uso won the Royal Rumble and I thought that was crazy, then got on my phone and Luka was traded 😳😳

The way I yelled for my hubby he thought something was seriously wrong so I quickly yelled it was just a bball thing. Still top 5 craziest sports moments not on a court or field, probably higher.

The day silver decided we done with pretending to be a regular sports league

I remember reading it first on Reddit. I thought someone’s just trolling because it seems impossible, so I took a nap.

When I woke up, Sham’s said he wasn’t hacked and it’s being reported everywhere.

It feels like waking up in an alternate universe.

I was up late packing for a business trip and my son called me from his friend’s house to tell me the news and I fucking yelled.

Worst part was no one on that trip was a Mavs fan so I had no one to vent with and just got a lot of “dude that sucks I’m sorry”

Wasnt it on Feb 2?

That was why we F5

It was a heavy day for me. I attended one of my close friend’s funeral earlier in the day and almost beat up her uncle for calling her crazy. Caught food poisoning so the rest of the day I just laid in my hotel bed groaning. My brother tells me the news and I said “man stfu, I’m in no mood for jokes”.

Still can’t believe that trade happened.

I still know exactly where I was, in bed thinking: ‘Pfft, fake news’ before seeing another video covering it and then another one 😭

So far, Max Christie has been more valuable than AD

Pretty sure this was during a UFC event last year , insane man

A coworker sent me the story and I thought he got duped. It took a few minutes to sink in that it was real. I don’t think we’ll see another trade like it in our lifetimes

Fuckkkkkkkkkk you

Dumbest trade in the history of sports. Not just the NBA

Lost 60 bucks in family blackjack and turned on my phone to this. That day sucked.

It was 6am in my place when it was announced. I thought I was dreaming because it was unbelievable.

Maybe it’s because I was tipsy/drunk when I first saw the tweet but the trade didn’t shock me the way other people are saying. Like, it was very surprising but not unbelievable, don’t know why.

Worst day of my life as a sports fan.

The Wolves had just lost to the Wizards and I remember opening Reddit thinking “Boy I bet we’re getting clowned on relentlessly”

Man I was just at the AAC and my seats were right above the 2023 WCF champion banner 🫠

Follow the money

I was at my friends 30th birthday party, so i didn’t look at my phone all night. i got home and saw the notification. I checked 3 different times to make sure it wasn’t AI-generated. Hell, i still can’t believe it wasn’t AI generated. Bill Simmons emergency pod was the capper to my long night of drinking, smoking and poker.

I had noticed it was the first and thought it must’ve been an April fools joke. And then I realized that’s 2 months away.

Man, I misread the label on some mushroom chocolates earlier that night and was having an interesting night when I read that news. Absolutely couldn’t tell if my eyes were really seeing that.

Actually today I went back to where I was that night for the first time since and thought about the trade

Some people say it was a Rob P masterclass but this is not true. Nico in his own mind was trading for a better player and wasable to convince Rob to attach FRP and Max Christie. Imagine that trading your best player for a better best player and getting rotation player and a pick. Nico was great until he missvalued two assets, Luka and AD. /s

Thx for the reminder.

Lmao I remember what bar I was at and exactly who I was with when this happened. Kept thinking it was somehow a fake tweet / news story even though it was on all of the TVs around us. Wild it’s been a year already

It is arguably the most lopsided trade in NBA history.

Yeah agreed, Utah got squeezed hard here

Still just as bananas as it was then, even from a neutral (mostly, in the sense that AD was involved) fan’s perspective.

Can’t convince me that that weird-ass lottery win wasn’t rigged as a booby-prize for Dallas trading their franchise cornerstone to keep LeBron and the Laker media machine relevant.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news

And with each passing day, the genius of GOAT GM Nico goatison proves itself again. Dumping a bummy fraud when the whole world was crazy was pure genius. Bumka Fraudič is a traffic cone on defense, needs the ball, and just complains to the refs. Hes worse than LeFlop ever was. Why trade away a prime max GOATie for this fraudulent bum I will never know. 

Definitely one of those events where you remember where and what you were doing at the time