The massive trade the Warriors orchestrated for Jimmy Butler on Wednesday night unfolded in real time just before Golden State was set to play against the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City — and made for a surreal scene for the reporters covering the team.

The mercurial star goes to Golden State — and agrees to a contract extension — to form a veteran core with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green.

Co-host Marcus Thompson II furthered this point as he pondered the journey the team took mentally to go from thinking the trade was a risk to pulling the trigger with a move that included Wiggins, described as “one of the people nobody ever wanted to give up.”

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.