In his debut with the Mavericks after the Luka Doncic trade, Anthony Davis, excited after a dunk, yelled to the crowd "I'm here." In a recent interview, he explained why he did so.

The most charitable possible explanation for the Luka Dončić trade -- and this was already a stretch -- was that it improved the team's short-term prospects. Nico Harrison told us as much when he said,

The Dallas Mavericks say Anthony Davis is improving daily but the team gave no indication of when the forward they got in their trade of Luka Doncic might be ready to play again.