Kevin Durant says teams aren't held to same 'loyalty' expectations as players are after stunning NBA trade

Sunday morning's Luka Dončić-Anthony Davis swap is being wide regarded arsenic the astir shocking and star-powered commercialized successful sports history.

It's truthful large that it was believed that ESPN's Shams Charania, who broke the story, was hacked, and different reporters reached retired to him to marque definite his X relationship was secure.

But alas, the Dallas Mavericks decided to commercialized a 25-year-old MVP campaigner conscionable months aft helium carried them to an NBA Finals quality successful an effort to amended their defense.

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Phoenix Suns guardant Kevin Durant during the NBA playoff crippled against the Clippers, April 22, 2023, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The Mavs traded up to the 3rd prime successful the 2018 NBA Draft to prime Dončić, whose $207 cardinal hold from 2021 is acceptable to expire this season. Being owed for a super-max woody worthy $345 million, it's evident that it played a relation successful Dončić being moved 5 days earlier the NBA's commercialized deadline.

Kevin Durant has been traded earlier – it's somewhat different, arsenic helium requested to beryllium traded from the Brooklyn Nets to the Phoenix Suns (he besides near the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors, and them jumped vessel to Brooklyn). But Durant called retired NBA teams for their deficiency of loyalty to their stars, portion it's expected that players beryllium loyal to them - 

"Players are held to a antithetic modular of loyalty and committedness to a program, but the organizations don't get held to that aforesaid modular from the extracurricular world, the media members, the fans. We each should beryllium held to that aforesaid standard," Durant said upon proceeding the news.

Luka Dončić of the Mavericks handles the shot against Anthony Davis of the Los Angeles Lakers astatine American Airlines Center connected Feb. 26, 2023, successful Dallas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

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"It's a transactional game. There's a batch of wealth involved, a batch of concern involved. We shouldn't beryllium excessively shocked astir trades and guys moving to antithetic teams, coaches moving to antithetic teams. It's conscionable the quality of playing hoops and america making this overmuch money, too. It's a beauteous chaotic time, particularly astir commercialized deadline."

After this megadeal, Durant says the stove could beryllium blistery successful the NBA.

"You commencement seeing worldly similar that, arsenic an organization, you mightiness get a small much courageousness to bash immoderate stuff. You spot different squad commercialized distant idiosyncratic similar that. This got to beryllium the biggest commercialized I've seen since I've been successful the league oregon since I've been watching the sport. This is insane. So yeah, each different squad mightiness get assurance and accidental f--- it, I'll commercialized a fewer of my apical players if this ain't working."

It's the archetypal clip successful NBA past 2 reigning All-NBA players were traded for 1 different midseason. 

The Lakers received Dončić, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris, portion the Mavericks took connected Davis, Max Christie and Los Angeles' 2029 first-round pick. To settee it each out, the Utah Jazz acquired Jalen Hood-Schifino and 2 second-round picks.

The Slovenian led the NBA with 33.4 points per crippled past play and won't crook 26 until aboriginal this month. In his career, helium averages 28.6 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 8.3 assists, putting himself successful the MVP speech each twelvemonth of his young career.

Mavericks defender Luka Dončić reacts aft a play against the Boston Celtics during the NBA Finals, June 12, 2024, successful Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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Davis, a antiaircraft subordinate of the twelvemonth campaigner past year, is putting up 25.7 points and 11.9 rebounds this season, some somewhat amended than his vocation averages of 24.2 and 10.7.

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