The Dallas Mavericks traded Harrison Barnes to the Sacramento Kings. The Texas team got Justin Jackson and veteran and former all-star Zach Randolph.
Seemingly normal news, that the Mavericks team did not decide to trade Barsna during the game.
The now former Mavs winger was playing a game against the Charlotte Hornets when the news came that he was no longer a Dallas player.
The situation got even worse when, during a time-out, the player himself learned that he had to move to California.
Barnes could not hide his disappointment, and many players and fans around the world "opened fire" on the leadership of Dallas.
"When the player decides to change the team, then club owners and GMs talk about loyalty, betrayal, "stab in the back", and when the club sells the player as a "piece of meat", then everything is ok", is the general opinion of NBA players.
LeBron James also spoke about the whole case.
"So this is cool, because Dallas has to look for what's best for their franchise. To trade a guy while he's still playing for his team, and who had no idea what was going on. I'm not bashing those who traded him, because this is it's all a big business, but I would like it to be talked about when this kind of thing happens, and not only when a player decides to leave a franchise, and then everyone attacks him for being selfish, ungrateful, etc.," James wrote on his Instagram profile.
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