The NBA trade deadline has officially passed after a dizzying flurry of moves starting with the late-night shocker that sent Kevin Durant to the Suns. From there we had complicated three-teamers, a gaggle of second-round picks, reunions, cost-cutting moves, and some teams surprisingly standing pat. Let’s run through some winners and losers.
Winners: Second-round picks
Seriously, what in the world? Did second-round picks get some kind of sexy makeover that’s made everyone at their local high school look at them in a new light? Where did all these second-rounders come from? Has there ever been an NBA trade involving five seconds before Thursday? And then we got two of them? Am I going to have to pretend to care about second-round picks the way I would nod my head whenever anyone mentioned crypto last year? Today was a big win for the draft asset fetishists, at least.
