Could Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee have known, when he sold left fielder and pitcher Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in December 1919, that people would still be talking about his decision 106 years later?

Jason Kidd might have his teams mixed up in the famed Yankees-Red Sox sale of Babe Ruth back in 1919. Before the Mavericks hosted the Lakers — and Luka Dončić — on Wednesday in Dallas for the first time since the seismic deal in early February,

Almost no one outside of Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison’s office could have, up until the shocking news broke on Feb. 2, imagined any scenario where the people of Dallas were welcoming Slovenian-born superstar Luka Dončić as part of the visiting team or thanking him for 6 ½ years of service that are now over.