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New Anthony Edwards Detail Emerges After Luka Doncic-Lakers Blockbuster Trade

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Matt Wadleigh | Last updated Feb 28, 2025 10:57 AM ET

On February 1, the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks shocked the NBA world with a three-team deal that involved the Utah Jazz.

The nucleus of the trade was Luka Doncic going to Los Angeles and Anthony Davis going to Dallas in a move that nobody saw coming.

Weeks later, this trade is still being discussed, and the Lakers-Mavericks showdown on Tuesday night in L.A. had everybody zeroed in.

TNT reported that the average viewership was 2.5 million, with a peak of 2.9 million for Doncic's first game against his former team.

On Thursday night, the Lakers defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves, 111-102, in a game where Anthony Edwards was ejected for receiving a pair of technical fouls.

After the game, some new details came out regarding the Doncic-Mavericks trade, including a report about Dallas calling about Edwards, as Sam Amick of The Athletic wrote.

"League sources tell The Athletic that the Mavericks and Timberwolves informally discussed the prospect of swapping Dončić for 23-year-old, three-time All-Star Anthony Edwards in the weeks before the Lakers deal went down," Amick wrote.

"More specifically, Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison reached out to the Timberwolves and asked if there was any chance they’d be willing to trade Edwards. He was promptly told no. The Timberwolves, league sources say, were stunned that Dallas was contemplating parting ways with Dončić."

Doncic going to the Lakers was shocking enough, and the Mavs and Timberwolves swapping Doncic for Edwards would've been another massive twist.

Edwards had previously discussed his thoughts on Doncic being traded: “Nobody knew about the trade, so that’s crazy,” Edwards said. “At 25, they traded probably the best scorer in the NBA. He didn’t know about it—that’s a lot more digging somebody’s got to do to find out why he got traded. Because you don’t just trade him at 25. He just went to the Finals."

Now, a month later, it turns out that the Mavericks had hoped to acquire Edwards first before shifting focus to the Lakers.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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