Desmond Bane Recalls Hilarious Timing About Getting Traded On Father's Day

Newly acquired guard Desmond Bane didn’t travel far to visit the Orlando Magic facilities because he was already vacationing in Florida with family for Father’s Day when the trade news broke.

In a recent appearance on The Young Man and The Three, Bane jokingly shared the phone call that informed him he had been traded.

"We’re on vacation in Destin, ” Bane said. “We’d been trying to find a breakfast spot, it was Father’s Day. My GM texted me, ‘Happy Father’s Day, you got a second?’ I told my lady, and she said, ‘This can’t be good.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, probably not. It’s either me or someone else important.’ About 10 seconds later, I get a FaceTime call. I thought, ‘Yeah… we don’t FaceTime like that.’ We talk pretty often, but it’s always a phone call or in person. At that point, I knew."

“He told me I was getting traded," Bane added. "My heart sunk, because there’s 29 other teams you could go to. But once he said Orlando, I was like, ‘Okay, I can do that.’ So yeah, it was a crazy little Father’s Day morning ... We don't FaceTime. I thought it was gonna be a real sincere Happy Father's Day."