Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:46 am Post subject: Where were you when the Luka trade went down?
I was at home. I had just watched the Lakers/Knicks game. The Lakers just played an incredible game and it was one of the best wins of the season. When the game was over I was on LG reading the comments, sharing thoughts, watching highlights, etc. Then out of nowhere I see a thread pop up that said Luka Doncic is a Laker. I did a double, triple and quadruple take. I thought something was wrong with my eyes at first. Maybe I wasn't reading it right. Then I thought the OP was playing games/trolling. Then I started checking the thread. At first the consensus was Shams got hacked. Finally I saw confirmation from the LA Times. Then I knew it was real. What a night!
Where were you when the Luka trade went down? _________________ Nobody in the NBA can touch the Laker brand, which, like the uniform color, is pure gold.
I was laying in bed and had just put my son to sleep. I was just chekcing the time ln my phone and saw messages from two group chats. Of course I thought it was fake and checked the twitter handles carefully haha, but when it was real I wound up staying up to 2am texting and refreshing here like a mad man lol
Yeah it was late here so I was just checking the box score after the game and saw the news. Same, thought it was a hack and thought that would be amazing and then when it set in it was true i had a "basketball reasons" flashback and seriously assumed it would somehow be vetoed. Then it stayed news and you guys kept posting. Then we heard all this bitter Mavs ownership hate came out and it seemed more real.
Pau was a steak and we knew it and I was excited the whole time. This was so surreal I'm not joking when it took seeing him on the court Monday to get that this is actually set now.
At home, in NYC, still enjoying the Knicks win and just finished watching the David Benevidez fight. Looked on Twitter before I was gonna turn in for the night and twitter was lit up! Took me a minute to find a credible sauce to confirm it and when I did, I yelled and woke my son up and we were in disbelief. my phone blew up and I didn't make it to bed until 4 AM
I was basking in the Lakers' win on LG when I saw ocho posting that Shams got hacked. I was multitasking on something else on the internet (YouTube or whatever) and I saw an update saying it's not a hack and I was like... wat lol
Lying down, scrolling on tik tok, minutes from falling asleep meanwhile my brothers are texting the sibling group chat but I’m not paying attention. I said let me check what they’re talking about before going to bed. All my brother said was “my son said Luka would be a laker one day”, my other brother says this has to be fake so I’m confused and go on Twitter and type luka and see he was traded I’m like what but for who , I see Ad my heart drops and then I got on here to see all the replies
I was watching TV with the wife and her brother called me and told me to go to ESPN.com. I thought he was BSing me, _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns".
Right here. I saw Lonzo-lite’s BREAKING NEWS thread and thought the account probably got hacked (there was just 1 reply when I first saw it). I didn’t see it anywhere else at the time — it was so out of left field that I was in complete disbelief.
I was in bed early after coming home from a golf club event. This news jacked me right up. I figured it was fake at first when my buddy texted me. Then I said to myself, well if it’s real then LG will surely have crashed… LG loaded right up, hmm suspicious. But then I saw the thread title in the lounge. Then went straight to r/Mavericks and enjoyed some of the comments the Mavs fans had for Nico. I love Nico.
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:52 am Post subject:
I was in bed watching Youtube. I took a break in-between videos to check LG and saw the thread. I thought OP had been trolled or something at first. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:26 am Post subject:
Put my kid to bed, went to sleep, woke at 1am and I originally thought it was some april fools joke. _________________ Indianapolis Colts
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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:43 pm Post subject:
I was sleeping
I woke up and thought it was AI!
It still so weird to see, I loved AD here, I felt he always fought through injuries when he could, and always held down the defense keeping the Lakers from being comically bad on that end.
Absolutely you do this trade, Lakers are set for the next 10-15 years with the next generation star. _________________ The most important shot in basketball.
Man, I was drunk, still buzzing from the Knicks game that cost a month’s rent when my phone was blowing up. I think I ended up staying up til 2 in the morning just texting nonsense to everybody _________________ “The main goal for the Lakers is to win a championship. All I care about, all we care about, is to raise another banner in the rafters.“
We had gone up to the Oregon coast for a quick 4-day getaway. Stayed at this amazing AirBnB right across from Haystack rock at Cannon Beach. Full ocean view. Amazing. Full rock in front of us.
We just spent a perfect day in Astoria up the coast, came back to the house where I watched some of the Laker game. My wife and daughter wanted a movie night, so we got the popcorn going, lights turned down, fireplace, light rain outside. Maybe I will finish off the bottle of wine. I kept the Laker game on the iPad behind me, sound off, and would occasionally look back during the second half. Finally, when the game ended, I could get fully absorbed in the movie. They wanted to watch Goonies since we went to Astoria and parts of it were filmed in Cannon Beach.
This was all amazing. Like a top 100 type of day. This is why I wanted to get away. We had just finished a major deadline at work after a year and a half. Just check out and chill.
And then my wife screamed while looking at her phone -- the kind of scream like I thought a natural disaster or something happened. My son had texted.
"Oh my god!" She covered her mouth.
"What?"
"They just traded AD ... for Luka Doncic."
"What?!"
"Shams is reporting it."
"He must have been hacked," I said, like everyone else.
I got on my phone, checked a few things. Nope this was real. One eye on the movie, one eye on LG. My head swimming about how this was possible. Post my initial reaction on LG, something like "WTF!" Wasn't I just thinking last week that Luka was destined to be a Laker some day?
Then, of course, the brain went into chess mode... What's next? What do they need to do?...
Let me just put the phone down, finish this wine and let my brain swim in this moment and the day for a while. Sublime.
Well, I know it's going to sound unbelievable, but I had actually just gone out diving for pearls in the Solomon Islands. It had started out as a calm day, but as I approached the famed Dawnbreak Atoll the clouds started to pour in thick as wet concrete and the waves jumped on each other like leapfrogging blue whales. One moment I was out in Paradise and the next I was fighting for my life. The wave crashed on me heavy and I tumbled, tumbled, tumbling in the abyss and there was death and darkness and the next moment I woke up on the glimmering golden shores of El Segundo. The fires of my wasted youth had rendered the beach ashen. But digging my hands and fingers through those perilous crystals I found a new shining light, a new kind of gleaming, exotic pearl.
And, just like a flash of surprise blue clearing a storm-ridden sky, that lucky gem
i was watching the trailblazers game and was half asleep when suddenly i started hearing the commentators talk about Luka to the Lakers and i screamed WHAT? Proceeding to wake up my neighbors and everyone else in the block and got a note from the people who run the buildings that im being to loud
Enjoying our win vs the Knicks, playing 2K23 in whatever Lakers season I was in, a bunch of auto generated rookies were in it, and I had the first pick. I got trade requests for Ja Morant, Anthony Edwards and Luka for the pick + a generated player that was a 95 and then the game crashed.
I checked the forum while I waited for it to come back up and saw the thread. Thought we'd traded LeBron, turned out we'd traded AD. _________________ How NBA 2K18 failed the All-Time Lakers:
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I was in the Lebron James thread when I came across this post:
Snipes wrote:
We got Luka for AD..what can we get for this clown?
"WTF?" I remember thinking. "Lebron just had a 33pt triple double against the Knicks and hes a clown? And what is this guy talking about... AD for Luka?"
Well, I know it's going to sound unbelievable, but I had actually just gone out diving for pearls in the Solomon Islands. It had started out as a calm day, but as I approached the famed Dawnbreak Atoll the clouds started to pour in thick as wet concrete and the waves jumped on each other like leapfrogging blue whales. One moment I was out in Paradise and the next I was fighting for my life. The wave crashed on me heavy and I tumbled, tumbled, tumbling in the abyss and there was death and darkness and the next moment I woke up on the glimmering golden shores of El Segundo. The fires of my wasted youth had rendered the beach ashen. But digging my hands and fingers through those perilous crystals I found a new shining light, a new kind of gleaming, exotic pearl.
And, just like a flash of surprise blue clearing a storm-ridden sky, that lucky gem
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