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The New York Knicks and Dallas Mavericks didn't deal directly with one another on what emerged as a wild 2024 trade deadline, but their actions still seemed somehow connected -- and have since January 2019, when Dallas traded two first-round picks (among other things) to New York to pair Kristaps Porzingis with their budding superstar rookie Luka Doncic.
The Mavericks had bottomed out the year before and moved up in the draft for Doncic. It was immediately clear Doncic would become an All-NBA-level star -- the hardest thing to find, the dream centerpiece for a rebuild.