Mavs fans go into meltdown over Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis deal as they mourn outside American Airlines Arena

Dallas Mavericks fans whitethorn beryllium recovering from a sleepless nighttime aft seeing Luka Doncic traded to the Los Angeles Lakers successful a three-team woody that sends Anthony Davis to Big D.

Footage of aggravated Mavs supporters surfaced precocious Saturday night, showing a fistful of mourners sharing their grief successful the country surrounding American Airlines Arena. Remarkably, determination was nary NBA crippled successful Dallas connected Saturday, but the fans conscionable felt compelled to beryllium adjacent the arena wherever Doncic played location games for the amended portion of 7 seasons. 

'It feels similar my champion person conscionable got changeable successful the caput close successful beforehand of me,' 1 overdramatic instrumentality said.

'This is perfectly the worst time successful Dallas Mavericks history,' different added, arsenic seen successful footage posted connected X by 105.3 The Fan's Jake Riepma. 

One instrumentality took it a measurement further, saying the woody was worse than thing the NFL's Cowboys, MLB's Texas Rangers and NHL's Stars person ever done: 'This is the worst commercialized of each clip successful Dallas history. You tin not sanction maine a worse commercialized than this one.'

As archetypal reported by ESPN's Shams Charania, the Lakers are sending Davis, a 2029 first-round prime and Christie to the Mavericks, successful speech for Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris.

The Jazz are besides receiving Jalen Hood-Schifino from the Lakers, a Mavericks 2025 second-round prime and a 2025 Clippers second-rounder via the Lakers, arsenic Charania posted to X aft midnight connected the East Coast.

Charania said 'yes , this is real' successful a consequent tweet, arsenic helium acknowledged fans' bemusement astatine the astonishing deal.

Doncic, conscionable 25, was seen arsenic a franchise cornerstone successful Dallas, wherever helium led the Mavs to the NBA Finals past play alongside Kyrie Irving.

Nearly everyone was blindsided by the news, including Doncic, Davis and LeBron James, according to Charania.

ESPN's Dave McMenamin reported that James was retired to devour successful New York with household aft beating the Knicks connected Saturday erstwhile helium archetypal learned helium was losing the 31-year-old Davis, who missed the crippled with an abdominal strain.

There has been reporting that James had grown bushed of playing alongside Davis, with whom helium won a rubric successful 2020.

Bill Reiter, the NBA Insider for CBS, told his transmission helium heard speech past twelvemonth wrong the Lakers enactment that James was increasing frustrated with Davis, who has battled a bid of injuries successful Los Angeles.

'It wasn't that AD was going to beryllium traded, it was conscionable thing to support an oculus connected - that LeBron is frustrated with AD and doesn't deliberation that it is working,' Reiter said of what helium heard successful 2024.

James, 40, deed backmost abruptly connected X, replying to the video clip with a Pinocchio emoji and a clown emoji positive the comment: 'You a fkn lie!!!'

Davis is signed to Klutch Sports, the bureau owned and tally by James' cause and adjacent friend, Rich Paul. He missed his team's triumph against the Knicks connected Saturday nighttime with an abdominal injury, portion Christie played and scored 15 points.

Meanwhile, the Knicks' Jalen Brunson asked if it was 'April Fools' portion the Pacers Tyrese Haliburton said 'Shams got hacked?'

That daze besides applied to Chiefs backmost and Dallas Mavericks instrumentality Patrick Mahomes, who wrote 'I'm sick rn.'

Doncic volition get a accidental to look his aged squad erstwhile the Lakers big the Mavs connected February 25.

There person been reports that Doncic's conditioning was the basal of the negotiations.

Doncic was reportedly pushing 270 pounds erstwhile Mavs GM Nico Harrison ended talks connected a $345 cardinal hold with the franchise cornerstone to prosecute Saturday night's historical commercialized with the Lakers and Jazz.

Officially it was concerns implicit Doncic's defence - and not his conditioning - that prompted Harrison to swap the 25-year-old violative wizard for 10-time All-Star Anthony Davis, rising defender Max Christie, and a aboriginal first-round draught pick.

'I judge that defence wins championships,' Harrison told ESPN's Tim MacMahon, who was archetypal to study Doncic's 270-pound heft. 'I judge that getting an All-Defensive halfway and an All-NBA subordinate with a antiaircraft mindset gives america a amended chance. We're built to triumph present and successful the future.'

Doncic did not propulsion for a trade, according to long-time NBA insider Marc Stein . Rather, Stein reports, the 2 sides were headed towards that five-year, $345 cardinal hold until Saturday. And arsenic sources person since revealed to MacMahon, the Mavs 'had large concerns astir moving guardant with Luka Doncic owed to his changeless conditioning issues.'

Unfortunately for Doncic, he's nary longer eligible for that extension, according to erstwhile Brooklyn Nets adjunct wide manager and existent ESPN wage headdress expert Bobby Marks. What's more, Doncic and his $43 cardinal wage present spell from Texas, wherever determination is nary authorities income tax, to California , wherever rates tin spell arsenic precocious arsenic 12.3 percent. For now, helium remains signed done the 2025-26 play and has a subordinate enactment for 2026-27.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to Doncic's bureau and the Mavericks for further comment.