The NBA Trade Deadline has come and gone with little activity from your Red, White, and Blue. They traded Matisse Thybulle for Jalen McDaniels in a four-team monstrosity of a trade. They had to give up the Charlotte Hornets’ second-round pick (projected to be 34th overall come June) but they got back a pair of future seconds.
Billionaire’s rejoice, the team accomplished their reported goal of ducking under the luxury tax, which will not help them this season; it arguably hurts if that idea factored in even a little bit to the decision to waive promising young reserves Isaiah Joe and Charles Bassey before the year began.