NBA commissioner Adam Silver joined ESPN's "The Pat McAfee Show" on Thursday ahead of the playoffs, which get underway on Saturday. To little surprise, the Luka Dončić trade, which is still commanding headlines months after it was made,

Appearing on Thursday's episode of The Pat McAfee Show, Silver explained the Mavs "aren't going anywhere" because they are trying to build a new arena in Dallas and there were no "ulterior motives" behind the move to send Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers.

It's been almost three months since the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers, and people are still baffled by how such a deal could happen. Bleacher Report writer Greg Swartz named the deal the "worst" in NBA history.