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Last Thursday, the Wizards held practice a day before a home matchup with the Dallas Mavericks. The session broke just after noon. Players went into their normal post-practice routines – some wandered to the weight room, some received treatment, others worked on their free throws. And while all may have appeared as normal, the trade deadline was just three hours away and lingered on the minds of everyone present.
Davis Bertans, the Wizards’ 6’10” long-range shooting extraordinaire, who spent the last four months developing into one of the NBA’s best perimeter threats, was among the many players around the league that heard their name floated in trade rumors for weeks.