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Speaker 1: We've been talking to Luka Doncic's the last several days.
Speaker 1: It's all anybody in the metroplex is really talking about.
Speaker 3: And Ben.
Speaker 1: Today kind of had some extra pain going on because
Speaker 1: we actually saw the press conference Luca and Rob Poline.
Speaker 1: He used to be Kobe Bryant's agent. Now he's the
Speaker 1: GM of the Lakers. What did you think you saw
Speaker 1: Polinka's look? What'd you think of the look he was
Speaker 1: throwing down?
Speaker 3: Man, there's nothing more la than that guy. I mean, dude,
Speaker 3: it was. He came out in a Fonzie jacket that
Speaker 3: was super tight. It was unzipped at the bottom end
Speaker 3: the top it had some fancy double zipper. Looks like
Speaker 3: he was wearing z Caavci's with the bottom of him
Speaker 3: rolled up a little bit. He had he always looks
Speaker 3: like a kind of a TMU Rob Low. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: he had. He has like not a comb over, but
Speaker 3: a comb down happening. It's just it's just he looks
Speaker 3: so la.
Speaker 1: He's so la, and him and Nico became big buddies
Speaker 1: through Kobe Bryant, right, he was Kobe's agent. Nico was
Speaker 1: doing the deal for Nike, so blah blah blah. So anyways,
Speaker 1: they finally did their press conference today and it's funny,
Speaker 1: like we do pressers here, well, this one no Maxie
Speaker 1: and no Markuith Morris. It's just robcn Lucas sitting on
Speaker 1: stools and you saw some of it, Christina, what did
Speaker 1: you think of Luca's demeanor?
Speaker 4: Well, first off, like Ben just said, that was my
Speaker 4: first my I couldn't get my eyes off this tiny
Speaker 4: jacket that Plinko was wearing. I was like, why are
Speaker 4: you doing that? Anyways, but Luca just looks so sad
Speaker 4: and you're gonna hear it in the audio and it
Speaker 4: was heartbreaking.
Speaker 2: It's just so heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll kind of jump around in time here because
Speaker 1: I want to start with Luca. And this is the
Speaker 1: second clip, Christina, and this is talking about someone asked
Speaker 1: him about the last forty eight hours.
Speaker 2: Here's Luca.
Speaker 5: Well, it was, honestly, it was hard. First, that first
Speaker 5: day was really hard. I felt like this last forty
Speaker 5: eight hours was one month, Like two days ago was
Speaker 5: one month ago. So mostly it was really hard. But
Speaker 5: every day that I, like today, was much better.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I'm just very happy to be here for this opportunity.
Speaker 5: He's the Lakers. It's one of the best closing history,
Speaker 5: so I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 2: Does he sound excited.
Speaker 4: But that's Luca too though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, he's got short answers. You know typically, but
Speaker 3: and maybe I'm projecting, but he looks sad. He seems
Speaker 3: sad and something for us all to remember, this cost
Speaker 3: him north of one hundred million dollars, right, yes, one
Speaker 3: hundred and ten.
Speaker 2: Hundred and sixteen million dollars is the number.
Speaker 3: Ice, Okay, one hundred This the Mavericks trading him cost
Speaker 3: him one hundred and ten million dollars. And so imagine
Speaker 3: how you feel if you lose a bet or you know,
Speaker 3: you tell you right like it's this. He's got to
Speaker 3: be hurting. He never foresaw this, and he was committed
Speaker 3: to being here and was excited about being here, settling roots,
Speaker 3: growing a family, getting a house, all those things, and
Speaker 3: the rug got ripped out from under him, so to speak.
Speaker 3: And so here within forty eight hours he's supposed to
Speaker 3: be all enthusiastic and happy. Yeah, I'm so happy to
Speaker 3: be a Laker. Forty eight hours ago, there was no
Speaker 3: thought except hey, I hope I have a statue next
Speaker 3: to Dirk. Right.
Speaker 1: It's tough, and so now I'll take responsibility for this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna reopen the wounds. Christina.
Speaker 1: We're gonna play the first clip of the press conference
Speaker 1: here it's the first one I had you pull. And
Speaker 1: this is Rob Polinka describing basically what you Maverick fans
Speaker 1: no longer have.
Speaker 6: Luka Doncic joining forces with the Los Angeles Lakers is
Speaker 6: a seismic event in NBA history. And the reason I
Speaker 6: say that is because we have a twenty five year
Speaker 6: old global superstar that's gonna get on the stage of
Speaker 6: the most popular and influential basketball brand on the globe.
Speaker 6: And I think when those two powerful forces come together,
Speaker 6: it brings basketball joy to the world because that's how
Speaker 6: Luca plays. He plays with joy. And if you think
Speaker 6: about kids in Barcelona, or kids in Buenos Aires, or
Speaker 6: children in Shanghai or Sydney, they're gonna be wearing a
Speaker 6: number seventy seven. Luka Doncic Lakers jersey.
Speaker 3: Hard to hear, isn't it. It's so hard to hear.
Speaker 3: And you only got one of their first round pigs.
Speaker 2: You got ad so y'all. Remember when I went to Italy,
Speaker 2: what three years ago? Yeah, you want to stop bragging
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 4: We ran into this little kid who was playing basketball,
Speaker 4: you know, we shot some hoops with him. The one
Speaker 4: NBA player he knew. Luka Doncic of Cours and so
Speaker 4: we sent him some MAVs gear.
Speaker 2: How was Soroy's jumper that day?
Speaker 4: Actually funny, Mike was sick that day, but Cash was out.
Speaker 2: With us, okay, so not a flue game for Mike.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is all so traumatic and hurtful and painful.
Speaker 3: I hate it, Like each day is worse. I can't
Speaker 3: you know. I've been hoping, hey, I'll start to feel
Speaker 3: a little bit better. You know. WFA having Luca Day
Speaker 3: on Thursday, and they reached out to see if we
Speaker 3: wanted to do something. I'm like, man, honestly, I don't
Speaker 3: know of I'll be in a good place to do that.
Speaker 3: I'm grieving right like we all are grieving right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3: And seeing the Lakers parade him out, go, can you
Speaker 3: believe we just got a twenty five year old global icon. Ha,
Speaker 3: we're the Lakers. We just got like you can't get
Speaker 3: these guys, we just got one.
Speaker 2: It's painful.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: This was pretty amazing to me. This is the third clip.
Speaker 1: Christina rob Polinka is talking about how it all went down,
Speaker 1: and it was real interesting to me to watch Luca
Speaker 1: and his body language as Robs telling this story of
Speaker 1: his personal glory.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So this all started with a coffee in Dallas where
Speaker 6: Nico approached us with the concept. And because there was
Speaker 6: a partnership and a history of travel in the world
Speaker 6: between Nico and myself working around Kobe Bryant, there was
Speaker 6: a fabric of trust in the discussions. And these type
Speaker 6: of deals are incredibly interesting.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about a fabric of trust between him
Speaker 1: and Nico.
Speaker 3: Which did not Luca's got to go, well, what about
Speaker 3: my tree of trust? I thought we were on the
Speaker 3: branch with the Luca's got to sit there on stage
Speaker 3: and listen to this. Can you piet in MAVs fans also, yeah,
Speaker 3: can you pick it back up?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Get and complicated. And along the way, we knew there
Speaker 6: would be two hundred and forty eight insurmountable snags to
Speaker 6: get to the end, and there were. And so over
Speaker 6: the course of you know, three weeks, call it, an
Speaker 6: issue would come up and we'd think there was no
Speaker 6: way to climb the mountain, and we'd figure out a way.
Speaker 6: Then the next issue would come up, and you just
Speaker 6: keep going, and you keep you stay committed to the work,
Speaker 6: You stay committed to trying to get the deal done
Speaker 6: in a partnership. Since I think a lot of people
Speaker 6: talk about negotiations in terms of who won and who lost.
Speaker 6: I try to approach a port a negotiation in the
Speaker 6: sense of how do we build a partnership where we
Speaker 6: can get to the end. And I think that was
Speaker 6: the lens that we worked in, the premise we worked under,
Speaker 6: and when the concept was initially introduced to us, it was, Hey,
Speaker 6: the only way we could even have these discussions was
Speaker 6: if it's between owner and GMS, and there was a
Speaker 6: commitment to that, and if we broke that commitment by
Speaker 6: talking to anyone else, this day would never happen. So
Speaker 6: I think trust was at the center of all those discussions.
Speaker 6: And I called Genie after the coffee in Dallas and
Speaker 6: brought her in immediately, as I do with everything. Her
Speaker 6: and I have a really strong working relationship, and the
Speaker 6: fabric of that is that we share we share things
Speaker 6: in real time, and she was extraordinarily excited and hopeful
Speaker 6: that we could get to the end, which we were
Speaker 6: able to do.
Speaker 4: Hope we got diarrhea from that coffee.
Speaker 1: It is It is incredibly tone deaf on his part
Speaker 1: to tell that story five feet away from Luke and
Speaker 1: talking about trust and partnership.
Speaker 3: He's doushe Magoo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that character.
Speaker 3: Well, now go to the general manager of the Lakers,
Speaker 3: douchey Magoo, who's wearing a double zipped Fonzarelli jacket. It's
Speaker 3: his wife's jackets. You let him borrow it. Its four
Speaker 3: sizes too small. Rob, tell us your thoughts on why
Speaker 3: you're so great. Well, we had to keep Luca out
Speaker 3: of this for his own good. I wanted.
Speaker 1: We're running out of time here because we do have
Speaker 1: the pregame coming up, but I want to play the
Speaker 1: final clip, Christina, because you'll hear the voice of Brad
Speaker 1: Towns and DMN writer and he it's you'll hear him,
Speaker 1: you'll hear Luca and and the second question Brad is asking.
Speaker 1: You'll just know Luca is shaking his head in disbelief
Speaker 1: during the question.
Speaker 7: Luca, Brad Towns and Dallas warning News. Uh. So you
Speaker 7: wrote a Dear Dallas letter to fans. It was, you know,
Speaker 7: very heartfelt. Uh. And you talked a little bit about
Speaker 7: you know, your shock. How are your feelings toward the
Speaker 7: upper levels of the organization, you know, Nico in particular
Speaker 7: or the decision to trade.
Speaker 5: You, well, I mean that's their decision, so I haven't
Speaker 5: common in that they made the decision. I don't know why,
Speaker 5: uh so, but that's the decision, so I can do
Speaker 5: nothing about it.
Speaker 7: And then one of the reasons that was given was
Speaker 7: that there was concern that, you know, beyond this summer
Speaker 7: or that you there's a chance you might not agree
Speaker 7: to the supermax extension. Did anyone did you or anyone
Speaker 7: on your inner circle indicate that that might be the case.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not easy, That's all he has to say about that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
Speaker 3: It's such a you know, I think Bob Sturm called
Speaker 3: it nuclear. It does. It just feels that way. It's like, man,
Speaker 3: I wish we had been able to resolve this because
Speaker 3: you know, I've called it trade in Santa Claus like
Speaker 3: this is his city.
Speaker 1: And that's why he's so gutted right now. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: la no, I mean, I love Luca. L Ain't never
Speaker 1: going to be his city, right, It's never.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a city. But he's he was ours, yes,
Speaker 3: and so like we if you ask probably most MAVs fans,
Speaker 3: you're like, hey, would you rather win a championship? Without Luca,
Speaker 3: or let him play here for the next twelve years
Speaker 3: and don't win a championship. I think probably ninety percent,
Speaker 3: if not higher, would say give me the twelve years
Speaker 3: of no ring. But with Luca being ours.
Speaker 1: I was about to say ninety percent when you said
Speaker 1: ninety percent. Now I will say that's a very immediate emotion,
Speaker 1: and I think that will change right over time.
Speaker 3: But right now it's raw.
Speaker 2: It's raw. That's how everybody feels.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, why don't we give way to the
Speaker 1: pregame crew because right here on ninety seven point one,
Speaker 1: the Eagle, home of Dallas Mavericks basketball, we do have
Speaker 1: mav Sixers. The MAVs and Sixers made a trade with
Speaker 1: one another today. That is so strange. Everything is strange.
Speaker 1: It's basketball bizarro world. That's gonna do it for us.
Speaker 1: We will be back tomorrow. Hopefully Kati is feeling better,
Speaker 1: but if not, who cares?
Speaker 2: In house, life goes on.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with Luca pay he's been she's Christina, I'm skinned.
Speaker 1: MAVs postgame next right here on the Eagle