when did NBA teams get this insane back toback trades that don't even look real first the luuka thing now this so the official trade is the Spurs get dearen Fox and Jordan McLaughlin the Kings get Zack LaVine City Soko free first in a few seconds and the Bulls get Zack Collins Trey Jones Kevin herder and their own first back by the way that Charlotte first is really two seconds for reasons it doesn't matter but the Spurs get dearon Fox without giving up any of their good young players or picks okay they did give up one
good pick that 2031 timber wolves first but we thought Oh They'll have to give up Stefan Castle nope Deon Vel nope okay Kellin Johnson no they keep all their draft picks from the Hawks too now Victor wanyama gets to play with dearin Fox one of the best young point guards with the best center potentially The Goat Who plays all World defense and hits threes I mean the other day wimy had a block like we have never seen before the ref called it a Goen cuz he was like all right that's got to be illegal I'm
not sure how but and of course it was overturned that is who dear and fox gets to play with now but this gets even crazier a lot crazier so think about where the Spurs were 3 years ago going nowhere with Deon Murray so they trade deante to the Hawks Hawks get Dante jock landale the Spurs get danello galinari and control of four first so let's look at what the Spurs have sent out and what the Spurs have gotten back the last 3 years they have sent out Jon Murray a bunch of role players basically three
first and some seconds they have gotten back dearin fox in control of four first round picks oh by the way without deante they got to tank for Victor wanyama how is this possible send out deante get back three first round picks toon Fox and wimy how is that a real thing this is up there with the best front office moves with like you know Jerry West drafting Kobe then signing sha and hiring Phil Jackson it's ALS so why good teams stay good and bad teams stay bad have you ever wondered like how could the Kings
be this bad for this long I mean they're always picking high in the draft isn't that designed to like help them so for 16 years they miss the playoffs and get high draft picks how could they be that bad because of things like this they gave up their star and got back one good draft pick in Zack LaVine oh Demar D rozan and Zack LaVine couldn't do it in Chicago let's try it again in our town a few years older yeah that'll work like I understand that the Kings didn't want a tank they want to
contend with sabonis and not blow it up but the one big issue they have is defense and so they get back a dude who doesn't play defense scores a lot which they already have covered by the way and needs the ball in his hands and gave up their best player for that why and what about the Bulls some people say oh the Bulls are the big loser here but I disagree yes all they got back was three role players their own first round pick but Zack was untradeable a year ago do you remember when he
was injured last year and they called him oh the worst contract in the NBA they regretted overpaying him in the first place now he is gone okay they've gotten that behind them and they've picked a direction okay stop being mediocre trade Nia vvi now deal Lonzo and tank Bulls fans at least know what their team is doing Kings fans have no idea what their team is doing but why did the Spurs not Target Luca donic okay apparently that was a possibility dearin is good and he fits with wimy but Luca would be unstoppable and he's
2 years younger like we don't know for sure if Fox can be a championship number two but we know Luca would be I mean to even call him a number two sounds insane right but this is wimy that we're talking about so the Mavericks held an awkward press conf conference yesterday and explained what happened why the Spurs didn't get Luca and they got de'arra so the reason is Dallas only called one team Nico Harrison picked up the phone called his buddy Lakers GM Rob pink and said let's get this done they don't want the circus
they don't want the drama so the Spurs didn't even have a chance they didn't know about this which is why MZ fans are pissed they held a protest outside of their Arena and brought a fraking often so for days the Spurs and the Kings have been negotiating okay the Spurs gave a lowball offer and the Kings said no way we're taking that for dearen Fox but sa said this look we know that dearen wants to be here he has leaked his desire to play with Victor wion elama so you can either take our little lowball
offer or we'll just sit back and wait 18 months till he's a free agent we'll sign him for nothing you'll lose him or you can take our crappy deal how you like that Spurs don't have to win now they can just sit back and wait they had all the leverage here so then finally a third team the Bulls gets involved swoops in puts Zack LaVine in the deal and the Kings say okay the Spurs were basically like the mafia in this deal negotiating with all the leverage but the Kings I mean didn't have to take
this deal right they could have waited till the summer and open up negotiations and I made a video predicting this deal would not happen for that reason people have been slamming me in those comments rightfully so I totally deserve that I underestimated how bad some front offices actually are but the big question now is what happens next okay wm's team didn't even have to go all in for dear and fox they could still make moves if Fox isn't a championship number two no problem maybe Stefan Castle really does become that good maybe they could draft
a championship number two not only did the Spurs keep their pick in this loaded 2025 draft they still have the hawk pick and they also kept the Hawks draft in 2026 and 2027 until then dearon can have a major impact on the west with wimy he will learn from CP3 Fox is already one of the most clutched players in the NBA to finish those close games he adds even more veteran leadership to their locker room and for his one playoff series Fox was amazing in his debut playoff game against the Warriors dude dropped 38 points
which is for the second most ever in a debut playoff game his clutch play translated he even played through a broken finger showing toughness I mean this dude wants to win for the series he averaged 27 points five boards and eight assists great players get even better in the playoffs and from what we've seen that's who dearon Fox is now the one drawback as always has been shooting but Fox proves he is a big game player which is the one thing we never really know about guys until until they get there so dude told Draymond
Green last off season look I have made enough money to take care of my family for Generations now I want to see how good am I really on the biggest stage on the flip side the guy the Kings got back the guy the Kings replaced the Aon Fox for Zack LaVine what has he done in his one playoff series 19 points five boards six assists he played four games dearon Fox took the Warriors to seven and almost beat the defending champs with a broken finger so the Spurs fed in this deal just like they've been
doing for years so when you wonder why does some teams just suck for decades when others are just great no matter what this is why but the Luca trade obviously deserves a deep dive the biggest question is why did the Mavs only call that one team why did they give up on a generational player at 25 years old well I'm not saying that it was the right decision but at least we know what they were thinking even if it was incredibly dumb
