[Highlight] Anthony Davis says he felt a bit disrespected after the Lakers traded him for Luka: “I was there 6 years, we won a championship and I can’t even get a phone call or a text to tell me this is what you’re thinking?”
“Luka is so cold, bro. We used to talk about Luka all the time. Be like, ‘Imagine me with Luka… oh my God.’” “If I ever got with Luka oh my gosh. So when he said traded to Dallas, I was like get the f**k out of here. And I said who the f**k they going to trade me for Luka n****? Who else can you trade me for on that team?”
“Luka is so cold, bro. We used to talk about Luka all the time. Be like, ‘Imagine me with Luka… oh my God.’”
“If I ever got with Luka oh my gosh. So when he said traded to Dallas, I was like get the f**k out of here. And I said who the f**k they going to trade me for Luka n****? Who else can you trade me for on that team?”
“Yeah I told you I was going to get you one day, I wanted you” - Nico
And what followed was Nico getting fired and Dallas trading AD after 29 total games played is funny as fuck.
29 total games played? So that’s what, 2 seasons for AD?
I don’t remember saying good luck
-Luka
Anthony “Can I Borrow a Feeling” Davis
With his money he probably has a sick collection of sports car beds.
He was just here for a cup of coffee and an IV drip
Bro hates being called street clothes but misses 3 months every time he bangs his hand on the floor
also his reply to Nico was basically like “… what? I’ll talk to you later, I need to call an adult to find out what’s actually going on”
that ‘Huh?’ was funny af
Sounds like a cartoon villain lmfao
It’s giving “Now I tell ya what, I like you and I want you… now we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way, the choice is yours”
I thought of making the rape joke, but stopped out of respect for Kobe.
I guess if you aren’t a Mavs fan. At least we have Cooper…
AD gonna clap back on Nico one day..
he could take a buy out and go to the lakers at a discount this off season if he wants to play with Luka so badly lol
They need a lob threat badly and have cap room
You’re not slick, Rob
Rob would pull that off and half the lakers sub would still demand he be fired or sucks 😭
Let’s be honest that’s more of AD wanting to come back to LA & less of Rob doing any meaningful work
Just because he was able to take advantage of possibly the dumbest GM move in NBA history doesn’t make Pelinka a good GM. In fact, I’d say the Lakers roster is pretty fucking trash.
maybe LeGM has something to do with that.
He was the one who managed the rebuild which led to enough assets to lure in LeBron+trade for AD. He then built the bubble roster along with the next years roster that was favorites to repeat until injuries.
LeBron, AD and Jeanie wanted Westbrook, Rob wanted kcp/caruso/schroder and buddy hield. The reason the lakers roster was ass for years was because Jeanie told him to do the Westbrook trade and let Caruso walk to avoid the tax. A year ago they finally gave Rob control again and a promotion and he pulls off the Luka trade.
Lob threat? I think he just got listed as out for another three months just from you typing that.
Yeah but for one week it would be the greatest PnR we’ve seen since Chris Paul on lob city, or Nash to Amare
Or Nash to Howard
I would greatly love that
yes sounds like he’d be thrilled to go back there
Wizards aren’t going to buy him out. They traded stuff for him. They’re not going to set him free before he plays a game for them.
I’ll preface this by saying 100% agree and am just memeing, wizards are not buying out AD.
But Wizards and lakers have some sort of trade partnership over the last few years. If it did happen It would probably be some sort of strings attached deal where the lakers turn around and gift the wizards something in the near future.
So LeBron can play at 43 with Luka/reaves/AD sitting out injured?
This is hilarious now because I wouldn’t even trade Kyrie, PJ, hell even Gafford or Naji for AD now especially given that awful contract.
To be fair, Kyrie Irving?
I would tell AD to sit this one out, but he already has been
You don’t have to tell AD twice to sit out that’s for sure.
Already in street clothes.
He pulls off his warm ups and it’s just jeans and a t-shirt underneath
NBA fans are such assholes. Players don’t choose to get injured. It’s something out of their control. And they probably fucking hate it.
Wouldn’t expect any maturity in that subject from the 12 year olds on this shit sub though so that’s on me.
He actually has played through many injuries to his own detriment. Can you be fragile and tough at the same time?
sure: fragile is how often/easily you break, tough is how you handle it.
if we cant make fun of millionaire superstar celebrities that only exist on the tv screen to us than what’s the point of all of this
Considering how shitty AD was to New Orleans (not even the franchise but the fans), he does not deserve much sympathy for his injuries
Okay fine I guess but the NOLA situation doesn’t have anything to do with hating on players for injuries.
At least they posted on Instagram thanking you, unlike
Unlike who? Don’t leave us hanging
if I speak I am in big trouble
Mourinho would be a pelicans fan
Jose would be insane in the nba: “He is a specialist in failure. 6 seasons in Chicago and no silverware, that’s failure. If I do that i I leave New Orleans and I don’t come back”
Mourinho wins trophies for hungry clubs that want success and not mediocrity. Spurs and Fenerbahce didn’t want success and wasted his genius.
He had the killer inside to win Europa League while Ole and Anorim didn’t.
Ill take him as a coach
He’s the special one
You’re safe here brother. Dray doesn’t punch fans, only teammates
LMAO
Gayle & Dumars proceed to stare with great discontent.
“That’s all folks.”
r/redditsniper
I’m a pacers fan and I’ll always dislike AD for the way he exited New Orleans. AND he refused #80 when he got to the lakers. Guys a total corncob.
“That’s what the money is for!” - Nico to Luka, probably.
It was obviously done on purpose. If word got out at what the Lakers were offering for Luka, basically every team in the league would have come up with packages resembling the value of the corpse of AD and the half-eaten bag of chips the Mavs got for Luka.
I’m sure other teams had full bags of chips and maybe even a Sprite to sweeten the deal.
yeah, this is why, until the day i’m no longer, i’ll dieeee on the hill that even if we credit every reason Nico had for trading Luka (fat/alcoholic blah blah) the return he got for Luka is unforgivable and insurmountable. Like the way that trade was done is the malpractice.
The return he got for Luka was they rigged the draft for Cooper
Crazy how they rigged Kyrie’s ACL tear so mavs would lose the play in and qualify for the #1 pick
Yeah if Reaves was in the deal the hate would be a lot less. It would still be there. But nowhere near the discourse it is.
It’s honestly the first time I legitimately somewhat believed the league was up to something shady. I always rolled my eyes when someone said the league was rigged but trading Luka in the night for a terrible return without starting what would’ve been a colossal bidding war makes no sense whatsoever, and the Mavericks getting the number one pick in the next draft seems way too coincidental
If it got out that Luka was on the trading block, it would have caused a huge uproar, poisoned the locker room against Nico and resulted in him being fired. To get the trade done it had to be done in secret.
Damn there goes AD reunion to the Lakers😔
I feel like he wouldn’t be opposed to coming back once Rob is gone
He might not but why would the Lakers want him back?
10 games of AD would be more impactful that 82 games of Ayton
AD makes \(58m next year and \)63m the following year. 10 games at those prices would be tortious mismanagement.
Would have to be a buy-out but the Wizards would never do that
Ironically I think AD will fit great on the Wizards, he won’t have to share the full burden as a bigman and he can play PF almost full time like he wants to with Sarr around.
Sorry should have mentioned I meant in a hypothetical situation that he was a FA. Lakers couldn’t trade to get AD back anyways with his salary. I know he won’t opt out after next season so not saying he’s actually coming back.
claim him off waiver next year, why not?
Wiz have no reason to waive him.
Stuck not playing for the Wizards when he could be not playing for the Lakers.
We are going to extend him. That is if he wants to stay here. I get we’re the Wizards and all, but we do have a solid squad he would fit in perfectly as the centerpiece
I feel like yall gonna give a reasonable offer and he balks at it.
Yea I mean, I think he would love doing a pick-and-roll with Trae
That wizards/lakers 2027 finals is gonna hit like crack
lakers? they are gonna trade lebron for Jokic huh? dammit Adam.
Nuggets and the Thunder planes crashed into each other.
Boooo
Hey its the only way the Lakers make it.
And the wreckage landed on the Spurs practice facility.
Spurs are better long term than the nuggets.
Spurs are better long term than every team in the league, assuming Wemby stays healthy. Only team that would even have an argument is OKC.
Just give us 50 wins pls
Not in our lifetime pal.
I’ll take 49 wins and a championship over the Lakers
So you can leak it and influence where you go? I see why they didn’t tell you
Any slight bit of leakage on this would have changed the whole world. No chance no other teams would get involved even with a small rumor.
They only got Luka bc no one knew he was available so yes, it would’ve changed things drastically if the rest of the league knew that they had a shot at Luka
Youre all greatly underestimating the stupidity of Nico.
You’re not seeing his genius. If news had got out about this trade, everybody would have convinced the Lakers not to trade AD for that chubby boy in Dallas! Only top secrecy could have made this work!
edit: Didn’t think I’d actually have to put an /s here
Tbf there are reports that he called both the Bucks and the Twolves and both declined getting Luka for Ant/Giannis. Still the worst trade in NBA history but at least he half tried?
nico didnt mention that luka was gonna be part of the deal though
What dallas got was trash font let flagg being good cloud peoples eye on how fucked dallas was. Any tiher team could have offer a better package
I feel like part of this deal is Nico having beef with Luka, but part of this is also Nico absolutely overestimating what Davis represented as an asset (not just the player in a vacuum, who is still very good) for a team in 2025. So I’m not sure that other teams making offers would have changed much.
what the fuck is this string of letters you’ve cobbled together trying to say?
I think its moreso that they didn’t tell him in any step of the process. It sounds like they didn’t even tell him that he was traded. Having to find out you got moved by other sources as opposed to your boss calling you to tell you that you’re being shipped out.
in the video he says pelinka told him 10 min before the trade was announced
and why should the lakers involve him in the process? in the workforce do you inform your manager you plan on leaving before securing another job offer? obviously not
same applies here but reversed, it’d be incredibly awkward for the team to tell your star player you plan on trading them, and then the trade deal falls through
I completely forgot he’s not even on the Mavs anymore
Same. At least when people like Harden or Westbrook move around, they actually play. AD gets moved around to continue sitting on the bench. This really goes to show how one-sided the Luka trade was. Luka was traded for a bench warmer. Lol
His debut was promising he just got hurt lol
again? who could’ve seen that coming
Man, I know this is beating a dead horse but every single one of these threads I just think about that clip of AD playing 2k and watching himself get hurt in game lmfao
It was the most glorious ever 10 minutes though!
I’m sure you already know this, but Luka scored more points in March of this year than AD scored in the entirety of his tenure with Dallas. Incredible stuff.
That post game interview with Rui was funny lol. Even he said “damn I forgot AD is on the Wiz now”
It literally didn’t change how our team looks on the court 💀
Anthony Davis disrespected the NOLA org for months until he was traded to his destination of LA and he getting mad because he got traded for a player that doesn’t just sit on the bench with street clothes all season? Make it make sense. The Lakers org provided him all the respect in the world, not their fault you can’t stay healthy.
100%
Imagine sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars for playing a game and still complaining about not getting some respect. Like stop crying
No, bc you would complain to your agent then the news is all over the NBA and 25 other teams are trying to trade for Luka
Oh man, I would feel for the guy if he didn’t treat the city of New Orleans and it’s fan base like a complete after thought. Fuck this dude.
And it’s like, what good would it do to tell him?
None. It wasn’t a mistake on his part or anything. He knew what he was doing with the he treated the fans and city. He was doing his best to make sure he wouldn’t be remembered for being in New Orleans.
Doesn’t make it hurt less. AD was our guy. Even more than CP3, cause a lot of the time with Paul the team was back and forth between OKC and NOLA, and the city was still really in a flux state for a long time.
I will bet though, that as the end of his career gets closer, he will likely regret the way he left. I just hope he doesn’t try to make amends for it publicly. I know Toronto moved on and eventually made up with Vince Carter, but I don’t think that will happen with AD.
Didn’t AD were a shirt that said “Thats all Folks!” right before he got traded to the Lakers?
lol you turned your back on a whole fanbase, no one has sympathy for you.
Nah we love AD
Classic Lakers fan thinking everything is about them.
The dude said “No one has sympathy for you”, and a lakers fan clarified that some people(noteably lakers fans) do indeed have sympathy for him.
If you need any other conversations explained I have a bit of free time right now so feel free to send them!
Yeah idk what that guy’s talking about we have nothing for respect for the guy.
Right?
Never knee AD was such a funny guy…I mean..lacked self awareness.
New Orleans has a fan base?
There’s dozen s of us. DOZEN
It’s a shame there aren’t more of you because the pelicans broadcast duo is one of my favorites in the league.
We exist you twat!
lol trust me brother, the entire time he was with us Lakers fans were trying to convince us we didn’t deserve him.
Half of those 6 years you spent at the bench in street clothes brother.
You can’t be talking when u got Embiid on ur team lmfaoo
I’m not even talking shit, dude was injured half the time he was on the Lakers, it’s just facts. Embiid is obviously far worse in games missed though, dude missed like 5 whole season.
& a championship. What stage of the process are we on?
What stage of the process are we on?
Only God knows at this point. But we have PED P on our team, so there is hope 😂
Got a ring. Probably should have had FMVP.
Kind of ironic when Embiid has played LESS games than AD.
embiid spent half his career in street clothes. you think it would be fine for him to get traded in the middle of the night unannounced?
For Jokic? Hell yeah it would be.
He literally doesn’t even play basketball anymore
Normally I would take issue with a front office doing that but in this case you gotta do whatever you can to get the deal done. Keep the discussions on a need to know basis, can’t risk it leaking and blowing up.
That’s where I’m at, you get that shit done asap before someone talked sense into nico if that’s possible
“That’s all folks”
Not sure why he’s shocked he or Rich weren’t kept in the loop…Pelinka had to do it quickly and quietly because if the league found out he’d get outbid in 15 minutes from like 20 other teams. Can’t take advantage of Nico telling him Luka is fat and too old to be worth much if a dozen other GMs are also on the phone with Nico offering multiple 1st and healthy stars instead.
To spill the beans before making your debut for the Mavs takes balls
He’s with the wizards isn’t he?
wooosh
He is a Wizard,Harry.
Does he know that he only played 270 games out of 410 in the span of 6 years?
No AD no Ring
Come on AD your nickname throughout the league is “Street Clothes”. Any GM or even a casual NBA fan would’ve made that deal in a heartbeat.
This stat alone makes every Mavs fan cry.
600 points for Luka in March. 587 points for AD in his entire Mavs tenure.
I felt disrespected when my company gave me a 0% raise this year and I’m still making less than 100k. Me and AD basically the same.
Actually wondering why the Lakers traded him is mind blowing. Cause they got luka instead of you lmao like hello?
Like dude, the trade was so lopsided that people literally think something criminal happened. When that’s how people see your trade you shouldn’t be shocked.
I would trade Anthony “Street Clothes” Davis a 1,000 times over for Luka. Luka could be 270 pounds for the rest of his career and I would still trade AD for him
You’re a fake Lakers fan if you slander AD with that flair.
Fucking nonsense after what he did in a Lakers jersey. Get out of here with that shit.
Average lakers fan shitting on their stars the second they decline
Lotta Luka implants that have resentment for AD because of the trade. Just fake fans
The Lakers were dead in the water with AD, and Pelinka flipped him for Prime Luka.
I don’t ever want to hear any “Pelinka needs to be fired” criticism, tbh.
The Lakers couldn’t let the story break and for the Mavs to get cold feet or realize they were making a stupid fucking trade. This was smart not to tell AD or his agent.
If you don’t have a no trade clause the team owes you literally nothing. I love Anthony Davis he is a great player but the thinking that teams owe something to the players outside of a paycheck and to treat you with respect while you’re there is insane and vice versa.
I don’t think AD’s opinion on the trade was going to change anyone’s mind.
“Hey Anthony, we’re trading you for Luka.” - Pelinka
“Wait, no! I’ve played here 6 years and won a bubble chip!” - AD
“C’mon, lets go to the airport.” - Pelinka
Damn. Welp, that’s all folks
Yo AD was really all of us. Dude was told he was traded by his agent, Nico and Pelinka and still was like, nahhhhhh hell no
His own GM and the GM of the team who traded for him told him he was traded and he still needed Shams tweet to make it real?! What?
I found it cute that Embied at 12 am called him about the news. Just shows some faternity in the NBA (and among big men) is still going strong.
Coming from the guy who forced his way out New Orleans and wore a “that’s all folks!” Shirt at the end and acted like it had nothing to do with him forcing his way out. He can fuck off.
He should worry more about staying healthy.
I understand his point because he had a legit claim to being the best player on the team. He was playing well and was staying healthy for the most part. It’s would be frustrating to not find out whatsoever until the deal is already done and it IS somewhat disrespectful.
The flipside that everyone else has pointed out is 1.) Karma for forcing your way out of NOLA and 2.) If they’d have told you about this trade it absolutely would have gotten leaked, and if it got leaked than the media would’ve shamed the Mavs too hard to trade Luka to any team. Even if the Mavs decided to go through with it anyways, some team would’ve been able to come up with a better deal. The Lakers had to keep it a secret.
Which leads me to believe that rarely are leaks actually leaks in sports.
Karma for how you left New Orleans, Anthony.
I hope Rob told him “that’s all, folks!”
Lakers fans (with prodding from AD’s dad) acted like the Celtics trading IT was a war crime.
IT sacrificed his hip for yall to get traded for a flat earth antivaxxer
You think that Rich would be quiet about it?
I don’t think any player other than SGA, Jokic, Giannis, ANT, and Curry are getting texts from their team before getting traded for Luka.
AD Injured for half or more of the season at this point. He should have left the Pels after his rookie contract to go to a contender but he chose money with an extension.
Enjoy the wizards and a pay check dude. Your career is cooked at this point.
AD is a top 75 player all time. Might be top 75 worst storyteller on podcasts all time.
lmao ring chasing and leaving for LA while crippling LA’s future prospects… he’s lucky he got traded for a premium
lol remember when his dad said he could never play for the Celtics because of the way they treat their players oh the irony
Bounce back and I’ll grow a unibrow AD 🙏
League isn’t prepared for the AD Wizards.
Championship?
Yea that sucks I agree, but the Lakers could not risk the deal leaking and the Mavs getting cold feet.
Karma for holding New Orleans hostage for before becoming a Laker.
Dude needs to realize how much of a liability he is, he’s never healthy
Do you think the Pelicans felt disrespected when you forced them to trade you to the Lakers? You made your bed, AD.
I also felt disrespected after the trade, AD. I felt even more disrespected after watching you play.
Nah, cuz your people would’ve leaked it. That’s the whole point.
There’s literally a good reason why they DON’T let you know (from a business perspective)
Has he not seen how KD and Giannis ruined that for everyone? The fact is that you “stars” think you’re so important that you’ll mess up a trade deal because it’s not perfect for you. The teams aren’t dealing with that anymore.
He’s disrespected because they didn’t tell him, but he also was ignoring their calls and texts trying to tell him LOL.
I don’t fault the Lakers though. You tell ANYONE and it gets out, Nico’s gonna find out really quickly how dumb he is and bail on the trade. They couldn’t be telling anyone.
AD got hurt doing this interview.
You’re darn tootin
Your employer is not your friend
Do some people prefer wired earbuds? Is it to avoid someone hacking into their Bluetooth and listening to the conversation?
Avoid lagging issues I would guess
Yes to your first question. No to the second. Only wired headphones stay in my ears. Also easier to keep track of
I got weird shaped ear holes, I’d lose wireless buds in like a day
Sorry we couldn’t text you AD, we were busy high fiving!
Didn’t want him to injure himself picking up the phone
Two coattail riders bitching together. What a great use of my time 🤣