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Championship contenders making trades with one another is rare, and you don't have to look too far back to understand why.
Just a year ago this week, the Milwaukee Bucks made a blockbuster trade with the Portland Trail Blazers to acquire Damian Lillard, but that inadvertently led to Jrue Holiday landing with the Boston Celtics. Holiday proved to be the vital last piece for Boston's quest to build a championship team within Milwaukee's own conference.
But the New York Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves each had a unique set of problems, and they fell into being each other's best solution.