February 11, 2025 • 6 mins
A successful debut as a Los Angeles Laker for Luka Doncic.
The Lakers cruised to a 132-113 win over the Utah Jazz at home, with Doncic putting up 14 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in 24 minutes of action.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Darcy Wildergrave
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's where we started from California.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Cheers for jer A beautiful assist by Luca because he's got.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
To get his sea legs that he has not played
since Christmas for free.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Look well cook of the Lakers. Oh, the crowd got
what they wanted to see earlier.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I guess they were standing when he cut it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Maybe they can sit down now.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
When he got traded from Dallas all the way to California, Ia.
We're talking Luca don chicch and we're joined now by
being Malley out of Fox Sports Radio being welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
How did he go?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What was the crowd reaction? Like, what a big move?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, it was a huge Nay, Darcy, it's gonna be
on with you against been a while, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
They gave out Don sig T shirts to every one
in the crowd. You know how the Laker games are,
the celebrities are out. Will Ferrell was there, Adele, the
singer Adele who's actually engaged to Lebron James agent.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So there were a.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Bunch of other Hollywood types that were there. It was
like a religious revival. For Luca because you said this
was a trade, Darcy, this was more of a giveaway
by the Dallas Mavericks. They just handed Luca, one of
the top young players in basketball, to the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Nobody else had a chance to bet on him. It's
a wild story.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Everyone's buzzing, and it's kind of like a soft launch
the way I would describe the Utah Jazz or a
terrible basketball team. They often ride the vomit comet. They're terrible.
They've only won twelve games all year. And so Luca,
he was on a minute's restriction. He didn't play very much.
He had fourteen points in the game. He played less
(01:56):
than twenty five minutes. So it's a nice soft launch
for Luca, the Lakers who played very well the last
couple of weeks, and a nice beginning to what the
Lakers think Luca's going to be here for the next
ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Tell us the bank story, Bine must have been digging.
What's going on? What happened mad a day launch him?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Well, there's a couple of conspiracy theories, and you know
we love.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Conspiracy theories and Radio RCI.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, the people that bought the Mavericks from Mark Cuban
run casinos in Las Vegas. So there's some speculation that
they traded Luca to undermine the fan base so then
they would be able to move the team to Las Vegas.
The gambling mecha of course of America, so they could
go there. There's another conspiracy that this Mavericks who said
lucas overrated. He doesn't play any defense, he doesn't play
(02:42):
winning basketball. He's just the stat stuffer that the Mavericks
have put a lot of stories out in the media
here around the States that Luca's fat and he's you know,
he's not. They've been gone on and on about all
these conspiracies about he's out of shape and all that
the guy's average in his career. He's like third all
time in NBA history. Apparently he's he's he's to go
to a fat farm.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's wild.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Wow, there's some conspiracy he's been now that the dust
well has the dust Seattle. I suppose it hasn't after
what you've seen, but the exceptence has got to be
there because he can't say no, Kenny, he's gone, Well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's not coming back.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
But it is a complete total debacle for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I mean, that's the story, because there were fans.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That brought like a casket like it was a funeral
to the Mavericks arena.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And I'll give you an idea how crazy it is.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The biggest star in Maverick's history before Luca was Dirk
Noavisky from Germany. He was in La here where I
am at the Laker game watching Luca's debut, supporting Luca.
Even though the street the Mavericks play their games on
the arenas named the Whiskey Way in honor of Dirk,
but he was in La supporting Lucas. So another body blow,
(03:52):
salt on the wound for the Dallas Mavericks. It's just
a wild So I've never seen anything really like it
in basketball where only one team was allowed to bid
on a player. I mean, it's just an amazing The
Lakers were looking at having forty year old Lebron James
and they were have to tear the thing down that
we're gonna have a very good team for the next
couple of years. And now they're they're set up. It's
(04:12):
almost like it was scripted Darcy's Wild.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And they did it all and the eyebrow walked.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's just the whole situation is absolutely
and then and then the unibrow goes there. In his
first game, he looks like dominant Shaquille O'Neill for a
half and then gets hurt. So he's gonna be out.
Anthony Davis will be out for another couple of weeks
at least. So it's and that's what he always has done.
He always gets hurt. That that's his claim to fame.
(04:38):
So the whole situation is for Gayzy, I don't know
what to make of it, but it's uh, as you know,
we talked over the years, Darcy. I like the other
team in L's kind of my team, the Clippers. But
this is a body blow for the for the top
young players. The guy turns twenty six soon, Luca, and
now he's coming to LA and he's gonna be the
king of LA basketball for the next couple of years
(04:59):
for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And best and worst outcomes or scenarios for both teams
involved or what can happen now in the season the
way both teams what they tradeactory.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Is well, the Mavericks have to wait for Anthony Davis
to come back, and if he comes back, they'll have
a good team. But he's always hurt. The guy that's
his you know, superpowers, he gets hurt when he plays.
He plays well, but he gets hurt a lot. And
for the Lakers, it's gonna be fascinating urts because they're
gonna have Lebron at age forty and Luca, and those
guys are Hall of famers, all time greats, you know,
but they don't play defense.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Either one of them plays defense.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So the Lakers on offense, I'll use a hockey analogy,
they'll be on the power play on offense, but they'll
be short handed on defense. It's almost gonna be five
on three because Luca and Lebron sporadically play defense. So
that does not seem like a great formula. The Lakers
tried to appease Luca. They made a trade. He wanted
them to get this guy, Mark Williams from the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
They made the trade.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
The trade was rescinded because I guess he's gonna bump
hip or something like that. But they know they're not
good enough roster wise. But odd things happen in basketball,
you know. And it seems that he's pretty wide open
in the West. There's not one team you say it's invincible.
Oklahoma City is the top team, but in the playoffs
they're not really battle tested, so you toss it up.
(06:14):
When we get to the postseason, things are certainly trending
up for the Lakers and down, down, down for the
Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks.
It'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sports Talk podcast with Darcy Wildergrave
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's where we started from California.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Cheers for jer A beautiful assist by Luca because he's got.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
To get his sea legs that he has not played
since Christmas for free.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Look well cook of the Lakers. Oh, the crowd got
what they wanted to see earlier.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I guess they were standing when he cut it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Maybe they can sit down now.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
When he got traded from Dallas all the way to California, Ia.
We're talking Luca don chicch and we're joined now by
being Malley out of Fox Sports Radio being welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
How did he go?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What was the crowd reaction? Like, what a big move?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Yeah, it was a huge Nay, Darcy, it's gonna be
on with you against been a while, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
They gave out Don sig T shirts to every one
in the crowd. You know how the Laker games are,
the celebrities are out. Will Ferrell was there, Adele, the
singer Adele who's actually engaged to Lebron James agent.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So there were a.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Bunch of other Hollywood types that were there. It was
like a religious revival. For Luca because you said this
was a trade, Darcy, this was more of a giveaway
by the Dallas Mavericks. They just handed Luca, one of
the top young players in basketball, to the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Nobody else had a chance to bet on him. It's
a wild story.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Everyone's buzzing, and it's kind of like a soft launch
the way I would describe the Utah Jazz or a
terrible basketball team. They often ride the vomit comet. They're terrible.
They've only won twelve games all year. And so Luca,
he was on a minute's restriction. He didn't play very much.
He had fourteen points in the game. He played less
(01:56):
than twenty five minutes. So it's a nice soft launch
for Luca, the Lakers who played very well the last
couple of weeks, and a nice beginning to what the
Lakers think Luca's going to be here for the next
ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Tell us the bank story, Bine must have been digging.
What's going on? What happened mad a day launch him?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Well, there's a couple of conspiracy theories, and you know
we love.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Conspiracy theories and Radio RCI.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, the people that bought the Mavericks from Mark Cuban
run casinos in Las Vegas. So there's some speculation that
they traded Luca to undermine the fan base so then
they would be able to move the team to Las Vegas.
The gambling mecha of course of America, so they could
go there. There's another conspiracy that this Mavericks who said
lucas overrated. He doesn't play any defense, he doesn't play
(02:42):
winning basketball. He's just the stat stuffer that the Mavericks
have put a lot of stories out in the media
here around the States that Luca's fat and he's you know,
he's not. They've been gone on and on about all
these conspiracies about he's out of shape and all that
the guy's average in his career. He's like third all
time in NBA history. Apparently he's he's he's to go
to a fat farm.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's wild.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Wow, there's some conspiracy he's been now that the dust
well has the dust Seattle. I suppose it hasn't after
what you've seen, but the exceptence has got to be
there because he can't say no, Kenny, he's gone, Well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's not coming back.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
But it is a complete total debacle for the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I mean, that's the story, because there were fans.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
That brought like a casket like it was a funeral
to the Mavericks arena.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And I'll give you an idea how crazy it is.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The biggest star in Maverick's history before Luca was Dirk
Noavisky from Germany. He was in La here where I
am at the Laker game watching Luca's debut, supporting Luca.
Even though the street the Mavericks play their games on
the arenas named the Whiskey Way in honor of Dirk,
but he was in La supporting Lucas. So another body blow,
(03:52):
salt on the wound for the Dallas Mavericks. It's just
a wild So I've never seen anything really like it
in basketball where only one team was allowed to bid
on a player. I mean, it's just an amazing The
Lakers were looking at having forty year old Lebron James
and they were have to tear the thing down that
we're gonna have a very good team for the next
couple of years. And now they're they're set up. It's
(04:12):
almost like it was scripted Darcy's Wild.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And they did it all and the eyebrow walked.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's just the whole situation is absolutely
and then and then the unibrow goes there. In his
first game, he looks like dominant Shaquille O'Neill for a
half and then gets hurt. So he's gonna be out.
Anthony Davis will be out for another couple of weeks
at least. So it's and that's what he always has done.
He always gets hurt. That that's his claim to fame.
(04:38):
So the whole situation is for Gayzy, I don't know
what to make of it, but it's uh, as you know,
we talked over the years, Darcy. I like the other
team in L's kind of my team, the Clippers. But
this is a body blow for the for the top
young players. The guy turns twenty six soon, Luca, and
now he's coming to LA and he's gonna be the
king of LA basketball for the next couple of years
(04:59):
for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
And best and worst outcomes or scenarios for both teams
involved or what can happen now in the season the
way both teams what they tradeactory.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Is well, the Mavericks have to wait for Anthony Davis
to come back, and if he comes back, they'll have
a good team. But he's always hurt. The guy that's
his you know, superpowers, he gets hurt when he plays.
He plays well, but he gets hurt a lot. And
for the Lakers, it's gonna be fascinating urts because they're
gonna have Lebron at age forty and Luca, and those
guys are Hall of famers, all time greats, you know,
but they don't play defense.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Either one of them plays defense.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So the Lakers on offense, I'll use a hockey analogy,
they'll be on the power play on offense, but they'll
be short handed on defense. It's almost gonna be five
on three because Luca and Lebron sporadically play defense. So
that does not seem like a great formula. The Lakers
tried to appease Luca. They made a trade. He wanted
them to get this guy, Mark Williams from the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
They made the trade.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
The trade was rescinded because I guess he's gonna bump
hip or something like that. But they know they're not
good enough roster wise. But odd things happen in basketball,
you know. And it seems that he's pretty wide open
in the West. There's not one team you say it's invincible.
Oklahoma City is the top team, but in the playoffs
they're not really battle tested, so you toss it up.
(06:14):
When we get to the postseason, things are certainly trending
up for the Lakers and down, down, down for the
Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
For more from Sports Talk, listen live to News Talks.
It'd be from seven pm weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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