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Q. How long did you have this information before you tweeted it? Shams Charania: Seven minutes. Five different sources. First heads up: Markieff Morris is being traded to the Lakers. Second heads up: Maxi Klber is being traded to the Lakers. I'm like, what is what is going on? Then I get another source. Three-team deal. Lakers, Mavs, Jazz. Jalen Hood-Schifino is going to Utah. I'm like, what is this three-team deal? These are a bunch of, you know, guys that are on contracts that are like, are they just trading small salaries for small salaries? And then the fourth person tells me Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis, these are all the parts. The whole deal. I got the whole deal. And I'm like, am I being catfished right now? I got to call this person. Call them. Hear their voice. It's real. I'm like, holy… And like my hands are literally shaking. I'm like sweating. Mind you, the context of this, it's like 11 central time. I'm in Chicago. The Lakers had just beaten the Knicks by a lot in New York at the Garden on a Saturday night. My hair was all down. I had my glasses on. I was getting ready to shut it down for the night. And I'm just like my hands are trembling. Like I'm just like this is unbelievable. I called the fifth person. Actually, I called someone else. The phone didn't even ring. Wouldn't even go. So I'm like, ‘This person is definitely dealing with this right now.’ I call another person. The person picks up. I'm like, ‘There's no way this sh*t is f*cking real." And the person goes, ‘Yeah, it's f*cking real.’ Next thing you know, that's that. Seven minutes.

Adam Aaronson: According to NBA dot com, the Sixers have Jalen Hood-Schifino and Alex Reese active today with Jeff Dowtin Jr. inactive. The Sixers have three more games to play after this one. Dowtin, Hood-Schifino and Reese can each be active for two of those games.

Austin Krell: Jalen Hood-Schifino will be available to play but Nick Nurse is not sure if he will play tonight.

Austin Krell: Jeff Dowtin Jr. is OUT (two-way) for tomorrow's game vs Miami. Jalen Hood-Schifino (illness) is questionable. Lonnie Walker IV (sprained neck) is probable.
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Adam Aaronson: Jalen Hood-Schifino (two-way) is also listed as OUT, but fellow two-way player Alex Reese is expected to join the team in Minnesota, I'm told. Reese has yet to be active for a game with the Sixers since signing with the team last month.

Hood-Schifino will wear No. 17 for the 76ers. In a related move, the team waived David Roddy.


Adam Aaronson: The Sixers will waive two-way wing David Roddy to make room for Jalen Hood-Schifino, a league source tells @thephillyvoice .
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Even the Utah Jazz, the third team that facilitated the transaction by collecting two second-round picks for absorbing Jalen Hood-Schifino, didn't know Doncic and Davis were a part of the deal until about an hour before it was completed, league sources said. Even Jazz President, Danny Ainge, who hails from the Lakers' hated rival, the Boston Celtics, had only about 30 minutes notice, sources said, that Los Angeles was about to acquire Doncic to be the new face of its franchise.