Official 2024-2025 NBA Trade Deadline Thread

[JordanwiththeWiz]

https://twitter.com/YossiGozlan/status/1887598786517610557

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Crazy thing, I was a Laker fan up until the age of 8.Born into it.Whole family's from LA.My aunt treated every playoff game like a major holiday.She'd cook up a feast, bake Laker colored cupcakes, put up purple & gold balloons around the house.All the family would show up.It felt like Thanksgiving & Christmas.Everybody bled purple & gold...Except my grandfather.He always played the villain & rooted for the opposite team.He had a particular fondness for Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, and the Suns.That was my guy, so I couldn't let him ride solo.Decided to join him on the dark side.Been paying for it ever since

 

[Recca Gatsby]

Holy shyt this dude hairline is in the next dimension

 

[triplehate]

Why do NBA superstars hate my franchise

Curse of Otis Thorpe

 

[T-K-G]

All the Dalton Knecht jokes killing me he thought he was hot shyt blatantly ignoring Bronny open at the end of games



Boy you already played 20 minutes and did nothing, LeBron coulda wait to punish that boy


Sent him to Charlotte hold this rebuild

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

If this trade deadline shows anything, it’s the importance of having cap space under this new CBA as it’s at a premium and get first picks in return.

 

[triplehate]

Griz one of the losers of the deadline. I know they moved Smart to have money to resign Aldama. But you gave up a 1st rnd pick to move him. After you traded 2 to get him.

If not for the steals in the 2nd round they would be getting cooked

 

[ECA]

Griz one of the losers of the deadline. I know they moved Smart to have money to resign Aldama. But you gave up a 1st rnd pick to move him. After you traded 2 to get him.

If not for the steals in the 2nd round they would be getting cooked

They did it to have extra bread for the JJJ extension

 

[manyfaces]

Holy shyt this dude hairline is in the next dimension

Detroit barbers will have him looking crispy

 

[triplehate]

They did it to have extra bread for the JJJ extension

His extension doesn't start until after Smart deal would have expired. Santi is up this year

 

[waltthizzney]

Curse of Otis Thorpe

 

[Redguard]

I have no idea how Phoenix navigates this team from here on out

This is what is going to happen to the Suns this summer:

 

[GOAT]

“You gotta pay us to take James Wiseman”

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[Versa]

Suns trading for Beal is one of the worst moves in NBA history. Ishbia came through and wanted to make splashes. Problem is everybody knew that "Big 3" experiment wasn't going to work, what makes it worse is you can't even dump Beal without his approval. I blame bad management rather than Beal because you don't trade for a guy like that making that type of money with a NTC.

Not only everything you just said....

You also don't trade for someone who is used to losing. That's literally the only thing that nikka has known since he arrived in the NBA, and he's been paid VERY handsomely to lose.

When you get too familiar with a bad situation for too long, it becomes normalized. That desire for "something better" isn't always gonna be there. Some folks cool where they're at doing them. Not everyone has that "I HAVE TO WIN AT ALL COSTS" type of competitive energy like KD, LeBron, Steph, etc.

It's also why some folks don't bother to seek better in relationships even if they probably could if they tried. The toxic environmental is normalized. Sometimes folks need therapists before they even can accept it.

Study humans long enough and they become very predictable. Doesn't matter the medium. Work. Relationships. And sports.