How active will the Trade Deadline be? | ALL NBA Podcast
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What are the expectations for the NBA Trade Deadline this year?
Well, the last one I have for you here, Mark, is just about the trade deadline in general. I feel that it's going to be somewhat quiet. There's always the chance for one of these big moves, but in years past, there's always been big moves, medium moves, small moves. And I'm wondering with this new CBA, if the medium and small moves are also more difficult to pull off. And I'll give you an example of a small one. At the deadline, there's a lot of tax teams that try to duck the tax. You know, they're a million over and let's just get rid of our 15th guy or whatever and move the pieces around. Are those moves, the little ones on the margins that teams need just to make their salary cap situation where they're off their future plans work?
Are those even more difficult under this new CBA?
They are more difficult, but they're still going to happen. Again, a week ago or not a week ago, even Friday. We had only seen one trade to that point. People are getting frustrated. This trade deadline sucks.
How has the new CBA affected trade dynamics in the NBA?
When are we going to see some action? And, like, things have already picked up. We saw two trades over the weekend. You know, Cleveland. Keyon Ellis was the guy that I think most teams, at least most teams that I spoke to, they thought he was the guy who could move independent of whatever is going on with Giannis. And that proved correct. The Cavs make a three-team trade where they get both Keyon Ellis and Dennis Schroeder and Shedd. DeAndre Hunter and reduce their tax bill significantly. So there's like Charlotte, Brooklyn, and Utah. Those are three teams that are all very willing to take up, to do the kind of trades you just suggested. The Nuggets have to make a move like that. The Raptors, if the Raptors don't make a big move, they still need to shed some salary to get under the tax.
You've got a variety of teams that want to create roster room specifically So they can convert two-way players to standard contracts like your Nuggets with Spencer Jones, like the Mavericks where I live with Ryan Nebhard and Musa Cisse. You're going to, I still think, look, we're already talking about a potential hardened trade that nobody really had on their bingo card. And that is significant. I still think we're going to get 10 to 15 more trades at least between now and the buzzer at 3 p.m. Eastern. And look, they're not all going to be blockbusters, and it's not all going to be as sexy as last year when you had the Doncic trade and then a flurry of trades that included All-Stars after that. But look, there is momentum behind a Harden to Cleveland deal right now.
Milwaukee is going to take the Giannis thing all the way to the buzzer. DeMontis Sabonis is still in play to some degree. I mean, there is a lot happening, I would say.
Those are medium deals. Medium! Medium! DeMontis Sabonis?
He's an All-Star. Can you please? What is the modest scale for a blockbuster then if those are immediate?
I don't even give James Harden this one as weird as it is.
So if Giannis doesn't get traded, the deadline is scored as a disappointment.
It was a dud. It was a total dud.
The DNVR grading system is unbelievable. What are you talking about? If they make a move to, if they shed it, if they make a move to shed tax and convert, you'll be dancing. You'll be dancing on camera.
Well, here's why I asked about the small deal thing though, because you just mentioned three teams that can do this.
What recent trades have occurred leading up to the deadline?
And I wonder like whenever there's a new CBA, things change, the markets change. And I just wonder if the price in years past, you get rid of your 15th guy who's making, you know, $3 million. You throw some cash in there, and that's how you get that deal done. Some team will take him on for cash. I just wonder if there's fewer of those teams, so the price for that went up, and a future strategy might be to be a Utah or a Brooklyn because, hey, at the deadline, we take on some guy we don't want for three months, and we actually get a lot. We get a real second-round pick, not a fake one, but a real second-round pick or something out of it.
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