It took half a decade, but the Warriors finally admitted the truth by giving up a first and most of their future cap flexibility for Butler.

The clash pits perhaps the NBA's most disgruntled superstar against a franchise that won't bend to his will. And everyone in the NBA is watching.

Now, the NBA has seen awkward trade circumstances before — Harrison Barnes getting dealt by the Dallas Mavericks while playing a basketball game most prominently comes to mind from my 12 years covering the NBA — but this is immediately on the Mount Rushmore of bizarre ways for the public to find out a deal is going down.