The Chicago Bulls came up empty at the trade deadline, with the exception of shipping out Kirk Hinrich to the Atlanta Hawks for Justin Holiday and a second-round draft pick. That wasn’t a bad trade, but the one they didn’t make made a lot more noise.
The Sacramento Kings allegedly offered Ben McLemore and Kosta Koufos, as well as a lowering of the protections on their draft pick, for Pau Gasol and Tony Snell. However, those protections were owned in part by the Philadelphia 76ers, and they didn’t want to cooperate without getting something out of it.