Even as we work our way toward the second round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs, the biggest story of this entire campaign may still be the internet-shattering trade that sent Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a single future first-round pick.

Today is Billy Owens’ 56th birthday. The former Syracuse Orange star played 10 years in the NBA and was traded eight different times. In the summer of 1999, he was traded for Horace Grant in June and then traded for his twin brother, Harvey Grant, in August.

Luka Dončić has never been a great defender. But through four games of the Los Angeles Lakers' first-round playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, he's not even passable. Zach Lowe, the foremost voice in NBA analysis,