{"id":429194,"date":"2025-02-19T08:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429194"},"modified":"2025-02-19T08:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:51:58","slug":"rich-paul-on-the-luka-ad-trade-if-i-knew-it-probably-wouldnt-have-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rich-paul-on-the-luka-ad-trade-if-i-knew-it-probably-wouldnt-have-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Paul on the Luka-AD trade: \u201cIf I knew, it probably wouldn\u2019t have happened\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1553\">The <strong data-start=\"1176\" data-end=\"1183\">NBA<\/strong> world was stunned by the blockbuster trade sending <strong data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1250\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/strong> to the <strong data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1268\">Lakers<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1290\">Anthony Davis<\/strong> to the <strong data-start=\"1298\" data-end=\"1311\">Mavericks<\/strong>\u2014including <strong data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1335\">Rich Paul<\/strong>, AD\u2019s longtime agent. Reflecting on the deal, Paul admitted: <em data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1551\">\u201c99.9% of the time, I know what\u2019s going on. The one time I didn\u2019t, none of us did\u2026 And I\u2019m glad, because if I knew, it probably wouldn\u2019t have happened.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1748\">Paul\u2019s statement highlights the secrecy surrounding the trade, even at the highest levels. Now, Don\u010di\u0107 joins <strong data-start=\"1664\" data-end=\"1680\">LeBron James<\/strong> in Los Angeles, while Davis takes on a leadership role in Dallas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rich Paul on the Luka-AD trade:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c99.9% of the time, I&#8217;m going to know what&#8217;s going on. The one time I didn&#8217;t was the one time we all didn&#8217;t\u2026 I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t know because it probably wouldn&#8217;t happened if you did know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pickuphoop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pickuphoop<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BEjqw9puQs\">pic.twitter.com\/BEjqw9puQs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1892052903260831855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Davis&#8217; agent reflects on the shocking trade that sent Luka Don\u010di\u0107 to the Lakers and AD to the Mavericks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":429193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-19-alle-08.45.10.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429194"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429194"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429194"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}