Mavs GM admits he didn’t grasp Luka Doncic’s status in Dallas.

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00:00Niko here, Mack Engle, Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

00:04When you were kicking the idea of this trade around,

00:08and you had various scenarios planned in your head,

00:11did the anger and outrage from the fan base,

00:14has that exceeded what you were kind of planning for?

00:19Yeah, good question.

00:22I did know that Luka was important to the fan base.

00:25I didn't quite know it to what level.

00:29But really, the way we looked at it

00:31is if you're putting a team on the floor

00:34that's Kyrie, Clay, PJ, Anthony Davis, and Lively,

00:40we feel that's a championship caliber team.

00:42And we would have been winning at a high level.

00:45And that would have quieted some of the outrage.

00:47And so unfortunately, we weren't able to do that.

00:50So it just continued to go on and on.