Zach Lowe

As soon as this injury happened, everyone around the league started wondering, wait a second, does that make it more likely they trade him less before this deadline?

Less likely they trade him, as likely they trade him.

And I would, after a weekend to digest it and talk to people, I would lean towards less likely to trade him for a couple of reasons.

Any team going all in for Giannis right now, when he has one guaranteed year left after this one on his contract, is doing so at least in part to try to win the championship this season.

You're right.

His injury complicates that if he's out for a long time and what is his recovery going to be like?

And I just think we're kind of running out of teams that fit that profile.

So as we've talked about the really good teams in the West that have the assets, we're 50 games into this man.

And he's hurt.

Like I just don't, I didn't see any of those teams upending their teams in the middle of this season to do this now anyway.

And now I definitely don't the teams in the East that have been mentioned are

Miami, I just don't think they're good enough either way to try to win the title this year.

And you could say, well, this is for next year too.

Fine.

I mean, we can revisit that in the summer then.

When we have more stuff to trade, the landscape's clear.

Atlanta, same thing.

We already traded Trey Young.

That was a $40-something million salary we could have used to grease the wheels in this trade.

In the West, Golden State, like...