“It was very difficult”: Liberon James, Lakers is still shocked by Anthony Davis’s trade

After Anthony Davis discovered that he was circulating in Dallas on Saturday evening, he faced Liberon James.

James refused to reveal the words that were exchanged, but he described the duration of their conversation.

“If the advertisement wants to talk about that moment, [he can]James said in his first public comments on the deal after Los Angeles Lakers won 122-97, certainly his responsibility on Tuesday: He was shocked, clearly.

James and Davis were more than just two stars who participated in the court. They were in support of each other through one of the most difficult seasons of their career, which included the death of Cuban Bryant and spent 93 days inside the American Professional League in Orlando during the Kofid -19s. He led the team to their first championship in 10 years of that season.

From 2019-2025, their relationship on the field from the teacher and goal turned to the 40-year-old league that passes the 31-year-old star, as James Davis described him as the best player in Lakers.

But more importantly, they were friends. Davis went to Taco on Tuesday at James’s house. Davis Cortis sat when Ibn James, Brunei, appeared for the first time in the league. Their treasures were next to each other. They were chatting after games. They took Jabs’s love on each other during the interviews, with James Maza around Davis and Davis bothering James because he is old.

James said: “Literally has become brothers over the past five years,” James said. “What we were able to accomplish on the ground, it is clear that it goes without saying. But most importantly, what we were able to accomplish on the ground, grow together, know the families of each other, and see each other grows, and seeing each other’s children grows.

When the news broke out about the amazing trading of three teams that sent Davis to Maverx and brought Luka Densic to Lakers on Saturday, James went out for dinner with his family after beating New York Nix.

James said: “I thought he was definitely fake,” James said. “I thought it was just a hoax, people wandering or anything else. But when the advertisement called me, I advertised me and spoke to him for a long time, and even when I got out of the phone with him, he didn’t seem to haven’t looks real.”

Although the trade ignited James from guarding, he was asked when asked whether he was concerned that she had shown that Lakers were more concerned about the future than the present.

“What is wrong with that?” James asked. “If I have concerns about it, I will give up my non -trade item and get out of here.”

Instead, James sat next to Doncic on the bench on Tuesday, a tease for fans who are impatiently expected how the two stars will work. (Doncic is outside the calf strain but will exercise on Wednesday five on five and can return on Saturday.)

“Luca has been my favorite player in the American Professional League for a while,” James said. “I think you know that. I have always tried to play the game in the right way and inspire the next generation. It coincides with Luca one of them. Now we are teammates. So it will be a very smooth transition.”

Densic conducted his preliminary news conference with Los Angeles to the media earlier on Tuesday morning, and he expressed that he would have the opportunity to learn from James. “Like a dream has become a reality,” Densic said. “I always look at it.”

But everyone who was affected by the Saturday trade is still in a state of lack of belief.

Densic said when he heard the news for the first time, he had to verify and make sure he was not April 1. Davis told Dallas correspondents that he was about to sit on a movie night with his wife when he received a call from Rob Pelinka, General Manager of Lakers and Lakers, by informing him of the deal, adding that he was “shocked.” James, the oldest player in the American Professional League at the age of forty, said that he saw nothing like this over his 22 -season career.

Are the 25 -year -old generational player traded? A deal that includes two American professional league players? No grumbling or rumors? Everyone who has complete blindness?

James said, “I never saw this,” James said. “I have seen everything so that this. I was never part of one such treatment. It was different.”

Trade raised a set of feelings for many American professional league players. If it is possible to circulate, is anyone safe?

As for Austin Reeves, he was sad that Davis no longer had a team. Revez, who played with Davis for 3 and a half years, revealed that he had a special association with a Davis sons.

“I want to talk to Revez,” Reeves recalls. [ice in the veins] Celebration and will start to do so. So it is just small things like this is why they are difficult. “

Reeves said he had a “empty hole in my stomach” after he said goodbye not only Davis, but also Max Christie and Galin Hood Chevno, who also participated in the deal.

“You create real relationships with these men and this was the most difficult part of me,” Reeves said.

But the American Professional League is a business and all the relevant players need to look forward. Lakers won nine games from the last 11 games, and they are now fifth in the Western Conference. They need to know a way to keep this momentum with the combination of Doncic, which can turn the concession into a competitor for years to come.

It is an exciting possibility.

However, one of the most crazy deals in the history of sport left many people to reel, including James, who lost his long pilot and his good friend in the cabinet room.

His reaction when he heard for the first time was Davis leaving?

James said: “My feelings were everywhere.”

A few days later, it was clear that nothing changed.

Melissa Roalin is a writer in the American Professional League at Fox Sports. The league has previously covered the photographer, Los Angeles Times, Gulf News Group and San Antonio Frankly. Follow it on Twitter @Melissarin.

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