‘Unfathomable’: How this stunning Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade came together for Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks

WALK INTO ONE of the seven Ascension Coffee shops in Dallas, and there are tall glass towers that baristas use to make the upscale cafe’s signature Japanese iced drip coffee. It takes 12 hours for the water to filter through before a barista hits the coffee with a dose of nitrogen and pours it in a cup. On the morning of Jan. 7, Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison invited Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka to the Ascension Coffee in the lobby of the Hotel Crescent Court, just a half-mile from American Airlines Center, to begin a similarly arduous,…