The NBA trade deadline arrives on Thursday at 3 p.m. ET, but the festivities began in earnest late Saturday night, when the Dallas Mavericks stunned the basketball world by sending Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for a package headlined by Anthony Davis.

The NBA world is in shock as Luka Doncic has been traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in a blockbuster mid-season deal that sent Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks. This trade, first reported by Shams Charania,

Speaking after a loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, Durant had a message on the loyalty double-standard in the NBA. "Players are held to a different standard of loyalty and commitment to a program but the organizations don't get held to that same standard from the outside," Durant said (via Duane Rankin of azcentral).