Every Monday, Phoenix Suns Insider Duane Rankin discusses all things NBA.
Smoke will continue to rise, but the real fire won’t escalate until February.
Right now, teams are seeing who’s available, who’d they be willing to deal and get in return as the trade deadline is Feb. 6.
Names like Kevin Love, Karl-Anthony Towns, Jrue Holiday, Tristian Thompson – and Dewayne Dedmon have surfaced.
Dewayne Dedmon?
The backup big came out publicly and told the Sacramento Bee he wants out of Sacramento and the league fined him $50,000 for “public statements detrimental to the NBA and its teams.