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The bucks, thunder, blazers, heat and suns did well this trade deadline. Basically teams that are in the running for the playoffs help themselves. I put suns there because dragic was a goner and brandon knight is a decent replacement for dragic and a good fit with bledsoe in their backcourt.

I really like the heat now. Deng/bosh/whiteside/dragic/wade is a solid lineup and not one any playoff team would want to face in a series. That lineup has a chance to beat the cavs or bulls in a series. Whiteside's emergence is really something and he is an excellent fit next to their best player in bosh. Dragic and wade are a good fit as well and deng is a solid glue guy that will defend.

I cant believe the sixers trade away MCW and Mcdaniels! What is the end game of theirs? At some point, you have to hold on the young talents that you invested in. At this rate, I expect them to trade away noel and embiid by next season. They are over doing it and they are going to pay the price for it in the near future.

MCW on the bucks would be a nice fit. I can see kidd seeing himself in MCW.

The Sixers are insane. Absolutely, positively insane. It's not only shameful the way they're doing this, it's getting harder and harder to see how this will actually work if they keep trading away the only good players they have EVEN WHEN THEY ARE ROOKIES OR REIGNING ROYs. Just nuts.

SameOldNudityDrew wrote:The Sixers are insane. Absolutely, positively insane. It's not only shameful the way they're doing this, it's getting harder and harder to see how this will actually work if they keep trading away the only good players they have EVEN WHEN THEY ARE ROOKIES OR REIGNING ROYs. Just nuts.

Exactly, they trade MCW? They're a complete shit show.

Sixers only know one word, Tank.

Im guessing Knight gave the bucks hints that he wasn't gonna resign which is why they made the trade because Knight is a better player than MCW.

Suns really messed this up in the offseason and gave up the Lakers 1st round pick this year? ouch... (top five protected, but it's still a gamble, what if it's the 6th pick?).

Like what the Thunder did, lots of depth for them.

Almost impossible to not think the Thunder and Heat are far and away huge winners today. Presti sent out bad players or upset players and got one of KD's favorite teammates (Augustin) and Kanter, who is almost a lock to re-sign with them after the season. Adding Kanter longterm to KD/Russ/Ibaka is pretty impressive.

And Miami (IF healthy) gets to run a Dragic/Wade/Deng/Bosh/Whiteside lineup. That's nasty.

zigzag22 wrote:Almost impossible to not think the Thunder and Heat are far and away huge winners today. Presti sent out bad players or upset players and got one of KD's favorite teammates (Augustin) and Kanter, who is almost a lock to re-sign with them after the season. Adding Kanter longterm to KD/Russ/Ibaka is pretty impressive.

And Miami (IF healthy) gets to run a Dragic/Wade/Deng/Bosh/Whiteside lineup. That's nasty.

Kind of interesting how Miami might just be able to pull of a pretty quick re-tooling after LeBron left. That's a pretty damn impressive starting 5 if Whiteside can keep his shit together.

BizarroJerry wrote:

SameOldNudityDrew wrote:The Sixers are insane. Absolutely, positively insane. It's not only shameful the way they're doing this, it's getting harder and harder to see how this will actually work if they keep trading away the only good players they have EVEN WHEN THEY ARE ROOKIES OR REIGNING ROYs. Just nuts.

Exactly, they trade MCW? They're a complete shit show.

I don't know. MCW wasn't necessarily everyone's favorite out here in Philly. He can't shoot and he's very turnover prone.

But yeah, Hinkie isn't afraid to pull the trigger is he? It's pretty amazing how they keep on rolling a snowball of assets forward. However, that snowball is getting bigger and bigger. They have a ridiculous amount of draft picks coming their way. It's really insane. What will be interesting is to see how long it takes them to finally settle on a core group of actual players to build around!

Yeah, Miami might have a nice playoff team this year. Nice to see a good player go from West to East for a change, and hopefully this puts our old pick in the 18 to 20 range.

As NBA fans, I believe all of us on this board deserve a 2/7 matchup of Cleveland vs. Miami....

Kyrie/JR/Lebron/Love/Mozgov vs. Dragic/Wade/Deng/Bosh/Whiteside

zigzag22 wrote:As NBA fans, I believe all of us on this board deserve a 2/7 matchup of Cleveland vs. Miami....

Kyrie/JR/Lebron/Love/Mozgov vs. Dragic/Wade/Deng/Bosh/Whiteside

I would love that matchup. You know what, the heat is becoming a favorite of mine outside of the wolves because they now have two guys In the starting lineup that I really like in dragic and whiteside. Plus bosh has grown on me this season.