Trade

There is a chance Jahlil Okafor’s tenure with the Philadelphia 76ers lasts just one season. Stacked with bigs, the Sixers need to clean up their frontcourt logjam. Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel and Okafor are all best suited at the 5. Philly ran into issues with just Noel and Okafor this season, and that problem will [...]

Tobias Harris doesn’t hold grudges. Especially when he doesn’t have much reason to hold a grudge. The Orlando Magic traded Harris to the Detroit Pistons ahead of the trade deadline, just months after signing him to a four-year, $64 million. Though that very financial commitment implied the Magic were investing in him for the long [...]

Are the Sacramento Kings the most dysfunctional team in NBA history? I’m not prepared to say no. DeMarcus Cousins and head coach George Karl haven’t been besties since the latter’s arrival. Tensions reached a new high after Cousins received a one-game suspension for conduct detrimental to the team, a punishment that, according to Cousins, was [...]

We’re inside of 4 months until the Kevin Durant sweepstakes takes off in earnest. KD will become a free agent on July 1 and teams are still posturing. Sure, there’s plenty of ball left to be played, and OKC may very well be in place to win it all, but we can still talk about [...]

Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge has some brass ones. We knew the Celtics tried to acquire a big name ahead of the Feb. 18 trade deadline and failed. We also knew that they targeted players we likely never knew about. And, finally, we on some level knew we would find out who those nameless players [...]

Certain teams feel pressured to make a deal at the trade deadline. They’re usually teams with GMs that probably feel as if they are on the hot seat. We’re not sure if that’s exactly the case with Phoenix a year ago, but GM Ryan McDonough admits that trading Isaiah Thomas was a mistake. Thomas has [...]

Does anyone think Carmelo Anthony would look good in green? Boston Celtics president Danny Ainge sure does. Or did. Maybe. With the trade deadline in the NBA’s rear view, we’re left to reflect upon all the juicy rumors that are trickling out of the crevices of front offices but never came to fruition. There have [...]

Like many backup PGs, Atlanta’s Dennis Schroder is on record as wanting to be a starting in this league. Unfortunately for him, he’s stuck behind Jeff Teague. But in Dennis’ defense, he’s probably talented enough to start for some NBA team. Might that team be the Sixers? Philly is reportedly prepared to offer Schroder the [...]

Some NBA pundits thought Markieff Morris’ trade value had cratered ahead of the Feb. 18 cutoff. Yours truly was one of them. I was vocal about it. Unapologetic about it. Apparently, though, I, like so many others, was wrong. Here’s Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher: While some media outlets portrayed Markieff’s market value was portrayed as [...]

The NBA trade deadline has come to pass. You made it. And you’re sad. Twelve deals—or rather, 10 after two consolidations—went down, none of them huge. Tobias Harris went to the Detroit Pistons, Channing Frye was shipped to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Markieff Morris was passed off to the Houston Rockets. That was the extent [...]