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'Unfathomable': How this stunning Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade came together for Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks - ESPN

WALK INTO ONE of the seven Ascension Coffee shops in Dallas, and there are tall glass towers that baristas use to make the upscale cafe's signature Japanese iced drip coffee. It takes 12 hours for the water to filter through before a barista hits the coffee with a dose of nitrogen and pours it in a cup. On the morning of Jan. 7, Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison invited Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka to the Ascension Coffee in the lobby of the Hotel Crescent Court, just a half-mile from American Airlines Center, to begin a similarly arduous, delicate trade conversation that would jolt the rest of the NBA.

Nearly a month later, the Lakers and Mavericks pulled off perhaps the most shocking trade in NBA history, trading 25-year-old perennial MVP contender, Luka Doncic, for All-NBA big man, Anthony Davis, without so much as a peep leaking out ahead of time.

Fans in Dallas took to the streets to protest the move, creating a makeshift memorial outside the team's arena, at the foot of the statue for Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki, who had posted a sad-faced emoji in response to the trade of a player many expected to be immortalized next to him with a statue one day.

Stars across the NBA were stunned — including the players involved in the trade who'd been given no heads-up that discussions at this level were even taking place.

Doncic sent a quick group text to his teammates but did not answer or return Harrison's call informing him of the trade. Davis was home in Los Angeles, texting congratulations to his teammates after they'd beaten the New York Knicks on Saturday night. LeBron James was out to dinner in New York when he got a call from Pelinka minutes before ESPN's Shams Charania broke news of the trade.

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