Friday's Play-In loss has the Mavs now reflecting on their franchise-derailing trade and the calamitous sequence of events that followed.

It's been almost three months since the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers, and people are still baffled by how such a deal could happen. Bleacher Report writer Greg Swartz named the deal the "worst" in NBA history.

ESPN reporter Tim MacMahon called the closed-door press session "an epic failure" in trying to assuage fan outrage over the generationally shocking (and ridiculously stupid) Dončić trade. The full press conference transcript has gone viral for how cringey and unconvincing it reads.