Devin Booker shuts down Mavericks’ trolling with perfect response

Phoenix Suns’ Devin Booker responds to the Luka trade with a masterful burn.

How you doing this morning? Still absorbing that out-of-nowhere Luka Donice for Anthony Davis trade? Yeah, me too. One minute I’m sitting on the couch watching the Phoenix Suns get punked by the Portland Trail Blazers, the next I’m checking to see if Shams Charania was hacked. I’m texting friends, DMing Suns content creators, and wondering if there is any validity to it.

It was valid. Doncic, the poster boy for the Dallas Mavericks, was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Amid all the tweets and reactions, one stood out. It made me chuckle, a perfect blend of shade and trolling, yet somehow cutting right to the heart of the Mavericks faithful.

We’ve all seen it, right? That picture. Luka Doncic, grinning like he’s got the world in his hands, looking up at a stone-faced Devin Booker. It was snapped during the gut-punch of a seven-game series where Luka and the Mavs ripped the hearts out of the 64-win Suns.

Mavs fans love to parade it in Suns fans’ faces whenever the teams meet. Even the Mavericks’ own social media account dropped it just days ago in response to some tweet that dared to question, “You can’t post a random picture and expect people to understand it.”

Devin Booker wasn’t about to let the Mavericks’ trolling retweet slide without some retaliation of his own.

In a move that could only be described as pure Booker energy, he responded with a tweet that was as simple as it was savage. It wasn’t just a snarky jab; it was the perfect balance of subtlety and shade, an effortless reminder that Booker’s not one to back down from the trash talk.

“Kept their word”. L-O-effing-L.

Yeah, we won’t be seeing that picture tweeted out from the Mavs’ account again. That was the last hurrah, the final shot across the bow. Booker nailed it. His response wasn’t just a clap back, it was a mic drop. The kind of subtle burn that made sure that picture will stay buried in the past, where it belongs.

That retweet? Gone. Booker made sure of it.