"They said Luka. I said, Luka Garza?'" Booker said, referencing the Minnesota Timberwolves center.
Booker...just thought what many probably thought -- that there was no way the Mavericks would move Doncic.
"It's crazy, man. I really don't know what to say about it," Booker said. "Luka being a guy that everybody has claimed is untouchable and untradeable. ..."
Added fellow Suns star Kevin Durant: "Insane. It's crazy. Crazy. Damn, would of never thought Luka Doncic would get traded. At his age, midseason, the NBA is a wild place, man."
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"Luka getting traded from Dallas has to have a deeper story behind it," Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson wrote on X. "This just doesn't happen on a random Saturday night."
"Wait what?" posted Patrick Mahomes, the star Kansas City Chiefs quarterback who sits courtside at Mavericks games occasionally during the offseason, NBA playoffs included.
And Knicks guard Jalen Brunson wondered if it was a joke: "April fools right?" he asked.
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Among players with at least 400 games, Doncic's 28.6-point average is third in NBA history behind only Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain -- both at 30.1.
Doncic also is one of only three players in NBA history with career averages of at least 25 points, seven rebounds and seven assists per game. The other two are James and Oscar Robertson.
