As the NBA world processes the shocking late-night trade that sent Luka Doncic to the Lakers and Anthony Davis to the Mavericks, the big question everyone is asking is, why on Earth would Dallas do this?

In a blockbuster trade that figures to impact the Western Conference balance of power for years to come, the Los Angeles Lakers, Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz agreed to a three-team deal that will swap Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic,

This was expected to be one of the quietest trade deadlines in recent years. The NBA always has a flair for the dramatic, though, and ESPN's Shams Charania broke a trade in the early hours of Sunday morning that was so unbelievable that he had to reiterate that it was "1000 percent real" before people realized that he wasn't hacked.