Luka Doncic trade has NFL stars dumbfounded at Super Bowl LIX: 'It's like trading Lamar'
NFL stars Michael Penix Jr, Josh Jacobs and Braxton Berrios weigh in on the Luka Doncic trade with Fox News Digital.
NEW ORLEANS – It's Super Bowl LIX week down in New Orleans, and all eyes are focused on the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles rematch in the "Big Game."
But not all the talk is about football in the Big Easy because of what just went down in the NBA: Luka Doncic was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.
A few NFL stars spoke to Fox News Digital about the trade, which left them flabbergasted as the Dallas Mavericks sent away their 25-year-old superstar guard.
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Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic is introduced at UCLA Health Training Center. (Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images)
"There’s no trade in history I feel like that really compares that type of trade," Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs said. "A top three player in the NBA, 25 years old, is in the prime of his career – it’s literally that fan base’s face – to get traded for peanuts basically? I don’t think there’s nothing comparable to it."
Jacobs mentioned Cleveland Browns star edge rusher Myles Garrett formally requesting a trade, and how it will be interesting to watch that play out. But it will only "ruffle some feathers" in Jacobs' eyes.
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The Doncic trade did much more than that for the sports world, let alone the NBA.
Even some players who don't watch basketball regularly couldn't fathom the Mavericks moving on from the face of their franchise. Free agent receiver Braxton Berrios even thinks something must have gone down behind closed doors because of how buttoned up it was to the public.
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