Shams Charania of ESPN wasn't sure what to believe when he first received word the Dallas Mavericks were trading Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers

1. At 12:12 a.m. ET on Sunday morning (or what normal people call Saturday night), Shams Charania stopped not just the NBA world, but the entire sports world, in its tracks by breaking the news that the Dallas Mavericks were trading Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis.

Shams Charania’s tweet on the Lakers-Mavericks Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade makes history.

The Dallas Mavericks traded homegrown star player Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis. More pieces were involved, along with the Utah Jazz. All in all, the trade looked like this: Lakers get: Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, Markieff Morris

The nitty-gritty of the deal was shocking enough, but ESPN's Shams Charania reported a further element to the deal that defied comprehension: neither of its principals, nor uber-c

NBA insider Sham Charania dropped a nuclear bombshell in reporting the Anthony Davis/Luka Doncic trade. He revealed who initiated it.

Shams Charania couldn’t believe it either. The ESPN reporter was getting the details of the Luka Doncic trade blockbuster over text that he was about to break to a stunned basketball world on Saturday night.