The Official NBA 2018-2019 Trade Deadline Thread
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The Winners and Losers of the 2019 NBA Trade Deadline
It looks like Sacramento finally did something right, and Washington is still doing everything wrong
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Loser: Washington Wizards
In a pure bookkeeping sense, the Wiz did a tidy bit of business Wednesday, shedding the contracts of Otto Porter Jr. and Markieff Morris to duck the luxury tax. But you don’t win medals for that.
Paying Porter $26.6 million a season never made sense, strictly speaking. But it was a price the Wizards had to pay because they had no other way to meaningfully replace the very valuable things he did for what was at the time a good team, thanks in large part to years upon years of missed opportunities in the roster-construction process. The Wizards are no longer good, so finding a way to stop overpaying Porter—and power forward Markieff Morris, who has alternated between injured and ineffective for most of this season—makes some sense. So does trading for Jabari Parker, thus opening the door to declining his mammoth team option for 2019-20 and carving out an additional $20 million in flexibility with which to perhaps re-sign glue guy Tomas Satoransky and rare bright spot Thomas Bryant.
It’s just that none of this goes anywhere. Two seasons ago, the Wizards were a 49-win conference semifinalist, fresh off their best run in more than a decade, with three exciting young building blocks at the heart of one the NBA’s best starting lineups. Now, all that’s left of that squad is Beal, a shattered Wall, Satoransky entering restricted free agency, the ghost of Ian Mahinmi, and what appears to be another bite at the rebuilding apple for the evidently immortal Ernie Grunfeld. Given that, it’s tough to think the state of the Wizards is anything but dark, no matter how much luxury-tax savings Ted Leonsis gets to realize.
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It looks like Sacramento finally did something right, and Washington is still doing everything wrong
Loser: Washington Wizards
In a pure bookkeeping sense, the Wiz did a tidy bit of business Wednesday, shedding the contracts of Otto Porter Jr. and Markieff Morris to duck the luxury tax. But you don’t win medals for that.
Paying Porter $26.6 million a season never made sense, strictly speaking. But it was a price the Wizards had to pay because they had no other way to meaningfully replace the very valuable things he did for what was at the time a good team, thanks in large part to years upon years of missed opportunities in the roster-construction process. The Wizards are no longer good, so finding a way to stop overpaying Porter—and power forward Markieff Morris, who has alternated between injured and ineffective for most of this season—makes some sense. So does trading for Jabari Parker, thus opening the door to declining his mammoth team option for 2019-20 and carving out an additional $20 million in flexibility with which to perhaps re-sign glue guy Tomas Satoransky and rare bright spot Thomas Bryant.
It’s just that none of this goes anywhere. Two seasons ago, the Wizards were a 49-win conference semifinalist, fresh off their best run in more than a decade, with three exciting young building blocks at the heart of one the NBA’s best starting lineups. Now, all that’s left of that squad is Beal, a shattered Wall, Satoransky entering restricted free agency, the ghost of Ian Mahinmi, and what appears to be another bite at the rebuilding apple for the evidently immortal Ernie Grunfeld. Given that, it’s tough to think the state of the Wizards is anything but dark, no matter how much luxury-tax savings Ted Leonsis gets to realize.
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G-Zeus
G-Zeus Chrystler...the brehsident
they just hoeing stanley
I believe we gonna see Amir get cut next Wes Matthews on the buyout market.
Trading Rose while he’s having a hugely resurgent season
That’s The PERFECT Time To Trade Someone lol
GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
That's hilarious, who said that?
Lord_Chief_Rocka
Superstar
The east is loading the fukk up