Luka Doncic excited to play with Deandre Ayton

When you see things happen like the Luka trade, right—it catches everybody off guard. What the f***. I was going to ask—what was your initial reaction to that? And it’s just like… do y’all hop in the owners’ group chat like, ‘Hey yo, what’s really going on?’ ’Cause y’all really kind of set the tone of how everybody has to conduct business going forward.” Wyc Grousbeck “Well, I—you know—I hate to… I don’t want to really pick on anybody, but I’ll give you an honest answer. I think if we traded somebody of that level—which we’re not—but if we were, we would call everybody. And it would probably leak out, but you just got to take it. And then you get five picks back. Or six. I mean, Bane got four picks and a swap. And they got like one pick—or maybe two. So, I mean, it just feels like… you know… Now they’re ending up with Cooper Flagg, but it’s not… it’s not all connected really that way. I don’t know. I just… I guess I feel like it must have been painful for them to do it. So, they didn’t want to let everybody know about it, probably. And that’s kind of human nature, I guess.” -via YouTube / July 2, 2025