The Ryen Russillo Podcast
More Luka Trade Fallout! The Pulse of Mavs Fans with Will Cain. Fox to the Spurs. Plus the LeBron, Klutch and Lakers Plans with Jovan Buha.
03 Feb 2025
Russillo starts the show by once again trying to make sense of the Mavericks trading Luka Dončić (0:40). Then, he’s joined by Will Cain to gain a fan's perspective of the Luka trade and discuss the differences between ESPN and Fox News (16:02). Next, Ryen shares his thoughts on De’Aaron Fox being traded to the Spurs before Ceruti joins to determine which teams wouldn’t have been interested in trading with Dallas (51:38). Next, Jovan Buha explains how the Luka deal materialized, what this means for LeBron’s future, and whether the Lakers will make any more moves before the trade deadline (69:44). Finally, Life Advice with Ceruti and Kyle (96:40)! How do I get my daughter out of watching a neighbor's cat? Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, live streams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Will Cain and Jovan Buha Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Big basketball podcast. Let's do it. Luca to the Lakers. Everything that I've been able to piece together and why I think one part of this I will never be okay with. We've got Will Kane. Politics and pick and roll. Probably more just on Luca. De'Aaron Fox also on the move to San Antonio. So a few on that.
Serena and I run through the no list of Luca trades and the Lakers future with Yovan Buha and life advice. On Saturday night, Luka was traded to the Lakers. Bill Simmons, Rob Mahoney, and I, we all did an emergency pod because this deserved an emergency pod. It's one of those trades. It's the biggest trade of my NBA lifetime. It's the kind of trade or news that I'll remember exactly where I was.
Saturday night, not very wild. Back home, laying in bed. Paul catch fire on TV. Excited about it. And then you see the first piece of news start traveling in. Your phone starts blowing up. Is this real? What are you talking about, man? And then you see Shams' tweet that Luka Doncic has been traded to the Lakers for Anthony Davis.
And I, like everybody else, is like, this doesn't make a lot of sense. And Shams had to say, this is not fake. Like, I haven't been hacked. And Bobby Marks had to be like, he's not hacked. That's how unbelievable this trade was. Call Bill. Bill's like, I guess we do an emergency pod. I'm like, yeah, I think you have to for this one. And we did it. We sorted through it.
And I was hoping by Monday morning of this taping that I would have more info for you. So let's just try to work through it a little bit because the league is still shocked by all of this. So I think it still works today. My reaction was like everybody else. Why would you trade someone like Luka Doncic at 25 years old? He's already made five all NBA first teams by 25.
His range is probably at best the second best player in the world. At worst, the third best player in the world. I think he's better than SGA. I'm sure there could be an argument. So let's say the worst you could rank Luka today is the fourth best player in the world at 25 years old. Guys like this do not get traded. And again, it's the most stunning trade of my lifetime.
So since Saturday night, I probably, just because people can't stop talking about this, maybe half the teams, someone for half the teams in the league, because you keep trying to put this together. And now I don't know that there's much more of a mystery. It's like, have you heard from anyone that knew that he was available.
Did you hear from any team where Niko just kicked the tires and like, hey, what would you do in theory if we were willing to trade Luka Doncic? Because a lot of times, this is how all this stuff happens. These guys talk to each other nonstop. They know which front offices like their players, which players that they don't like, who could be available, who might not be available. It's just a big...
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