‘I thought he was hacked’: How the jazz reacted to Luka Doncic -Trade

Salt Lake City – Lauri Markkanen was about to go to bed on Saturday night when his phone started buzzing. It was the jazz player group chat that responded to the Luka Doncic trade.

“That’s how I found out,” the field can said. “And of course I didn’t go to bed. You’re in the social media wormhole after that.”

It turns out that when big news happens, NBA players are like NBA fans.

And in Keyonte George’s case, the news almost sent him back to the days when he was a fan. He is from the Dallas area and grew up with a Mavericks fan. He was shaken by the news.

“It’s my hometown, so I got all types of calls from my friends and family,” George said. “They all asked me if it was real.”

However, George had the same question when he saw the tweet from Espn’s Sham Charania Break the Blockbuster Agreement.

“However, I thought he was hacked,” he said with a smile.

It was a fair thought. How many times does a 25-year-old perennial MVP candidate will be moved in the dead at night? George said his friend continued to repeat the same four words: “Luka to Lakers.”

The news was difficult for someone to understand.

“I went through this last year. I mean, this is even skirtans this year,” George said. “The low -key spooked me. I honestly never thought I would ever see him leave. I don’t know I could hardly go to sleep.”

The field of the field was also quite delayed. He said he used upwards in an hour of time texting and scrolling through his timeline as more details of the trade rolled in, which included the jazz that got a few other round choices and Jalen Hood-Schifino (it’s still unclear what Utahs Plans are for the second year guard).

The good news for the field can? He knew he would not get involved.

Due to when the field shell signed his extension this summer, he is not eligible to be traded until after the season.

“It feels good to know that we’re ready for now,” he said with emphasis on the “for now” part.

“I know that the deadline has gone first and we go into the summer, it will always be the same thing again,” the field can be. “But we’re here now until someone tells us other.”

However, the field can still have a few different teammates before Thursday’s deadline.

Utah has already made three features this deadline consolidation of draft elections, moving Patty Mills and Drew Eubanks to get a second round and then help consolidate Doncic-Anthony Davis Deal-and is probably not done yet.

The now usual suspects of John Collins, Jordan Clarkson and Collin Sexton are available and will not be surprised if Utah advances from one of his younger players if the right deal comes along. After all, the jazz Ochai Agbaji traded last season. And as Saturday showed, there is no one away from the table.

Walker Kessler was already sought after by Lakers (and their fans) before Los Angeles moved Davis to get Doncic. Now the team needs a big man more than ever.

“I don’t really listen to a lot of noise from the outside because you don’t know what will happen. It’s unpredictable,” Kessler said. “But of course I have my friends who texted me” Oh you are going to LA! ” ”

It doesn’t seem that Lakers would have the assets to intrigue the jazz to make such an appointment, but it could probably have been said last week that they got Luka, so …

“Although they are not necessarily in rumors, everyone feels it,” Kessler said. “But for me there is no need to worry about it wasting sleep over it, because if that happens it happens. You trust the plane of God and you go from there; there is no meaning to emphasize it. There is So many rumors and things.

To be fair, Kessler traveling to Shanghai would still not be as shocking as the Doncic Agreement.

“This time of year is crazy and it really makes you put you down and thinking,” George said. “It’s hard to talk about. I’ve never seen anything like it before.”