We’re here to talk hockey, but what a “hold my beer” showing by the National Basketball Association on the weekend.

For the second straight Friday night, the NHL discourse was popping off over a huge swap, with J.T. Miller going to the Rangers seven days after Mikko Rantanen had been shipped from Colorado to Carolina. The Miller trade was one of three big hockey transactions on the weekend, but it all paled in comparison to the shocking Sunday-morning news (for many of us in the east), that the Dallas Mavericks had dealt Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers, seemingly without ever deciding to tell any other NBA franchises that the 25-year-old megastar could be had via trade.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/who-else-could-move-after-busy-weekend-of-trades-in-nhl/