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Say this for Anthony Davis: When his tenure ends with an NBA team, it’s usually a memorable event.
The 10-time All-Star appeared on “The Draymond Green Show” hosted by the Golden State Warriors star in an episode released Wednesday, with plenty to discuss. Most notably, he had some grievances to air about the end of his tenures with both the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Pelicans.
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Before this week, Davis had been fairly diplomatic about the shocking trade that sent him to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Luka Dončić. That deal ended up not working out on his end, as injuries caused him to play only 29 games with Dallas across two partial seasons before getting traded to the Washington Wizards.
With the Lakers, Davis had been a mostly effective co-star to LeBron James and a champion in 2020. He felt he deserved better from the team:
“From the business standpoint, I can’t be mad. But, like, why? “I just couldn’t fathom, I couldn’t understand it. And nobody told me nothing. Nobody said a thing to me. So you just catch me off guard, like, yeah, ‘You traded to Dallas.’
“That’s what I couldn’t get over and I still can’t get over. I think I deserved much more respect than that. All the time I’ve been here — s***, I was there six years, — all the time I’ve been there and all the time, we won a championship, all this stuff and I can’t get a phone call or a text to tell me, like, ‘Look, this is what we’re thinking.’
Davis did seem understanding about the trade itself from the Lakers side, as he also admitted to having fantasized about pairing up with Dončić on the Lakers after James’ retirement.
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Where Davis appeared less understanding was his treatment by the Pelicans when he returned to the Smoothie King Center as a member of the Lakers. He called the team’s lack of tribute video ‘the final straw’ for his relationship to the team and said it killed any chance of returning to the team in his later years:
“You know how it always goes, you get drafted to a team and when you’re done, it’s like, ‘Damn, toward the end of my career, I might want to go…
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Author : Jack Baer
Publish date : 2026-04-08 23:31:00
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