The trade deadline in the NBA is a beautifully chaotic time. Smoke and mirrors flood rumor mills and Twitter feeds. Verbal Three-Card Monte dances throughout unnamed sources and gets pushed into all social media streams. We react instantly to every little transaction made, wondering if that’s it or if there is more to come. It’s always going to be a quiet deadline until it’s deafening with reports and confirmations. We grade each move in a moment’s notice, then move on to the next transaction.
The one problem I have with the trade deadline though is once it ends and we’ve given our important opinions on every single move made that day (and the moves not made), we never really revisit what happened. We just wait for Danny Ainge to leak to the Boston media all of the amazing moves he could have done but decided not to do because he sees more value in his young prospects. Once Ainge has done that, we just wait for the buyout season to happen, the…
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