Cowboys owner Jerry Jones reveals Luka Doncic trade left his wife in tears: "She cried"

It's no secret that Luka Doncic's trade from the Dallas Mavericks to the LA Lakers sent a shockwave through the NBA community. As general manager Nico Harrison told reporters on Monday, although he knew Doncic meant a lot to the city of Dallas, he didn't realize just how much he meant to Mavericks fans.

As it turns out, the trade had major ramifications that extended far beyond the NBA community. On Tuesday, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed that his wife, Eugenia Jones, was in tears when she found out about the deal.

While speaking with reporters on Tuesday for the Cowboys' pre-draft presser, which came just a day after Nico Harrison addressed members of the press for the second time, Jones called Luka Doncic a personal friend while explaining how the trade impacted his wife.

"I know Luka was a personal friend ... Gene was a all-star [baseketball player], and Jean lives and dies with that basketball and she cried when Luka left," Jones said.

The Jones couple has reportedly been together since college, when they met as undergrads at Arkansas in the 1960s. Jones and his family are huge Doncic fans.

Luka Doncic trade reportedly created a rift between Jason Kidd and the Dallas Mavericks' front office

Nobody knew about the Luka Doncic deal before it happened, except Nico Harrison, Rob Pelinka, and the Lakers and Mavericks owners.

While there were some theories that LeBron James, Jason Kidd, or even Mark Cuban knew, as more information comes out, it appears as though the initial reports that the trade was kept under wraps were in fact true.

In addition to Cuban revealing that he found out about the trade after the fact, DLLS Sports' Tim Cato reported that Kidd was also blindsided by the whole ordeal.

As Cato reported this week, Kidd was frustrated and began to resent Dallas' front office for shaking up the roster midway through the season.

The frustration boiled over in February, after the Hall of Famer skipped a postgame press conference following an overtime loss to the Sacramento Kings on Feb. 10, which came just over a week after the Mavericks shipped Doncic to LA, and just one game after Anthony Davis' Mavericks debut, where he exited the game with a groin injury.

Considering Kidd signed a multi-year extension with Dallas last May, it'll be interesting to see how things play out this offseason.