With less than two days left before the NBA's winter window trade deadline, many teams have taken action at the end of the day and completed a big deal. Just this past night, two super deals were agreed, and many players and draft picks were involved, and the NBA's landscape has changed again.
The first is that the Blazers made a big 3-for-6 deal with the Pelicans, and the protagonists were CJ and Hart, and the Blazers used CJ, Nance Jr., Snell and others as chips to get Hart, Alexander Walker, Satoransky, Didi Luzada and a first-round pick and second-round draft picks from the Pelicans.
After the deal was completed, the Blazers' three main rotation players were all sent away and truly entered the team's reconstruction. Then CJ will be paired with Zion Williamson and Ingram, will enhance the offensive firepower of the Pelicans, McCollum can contribute an average of 20+ per game, but the Pelicans' point guard position is just no player can be competent, CJ's addition may make the Pelicans a strong team in the West.
The second deal was a 4-for-3 deal between the Pacers and the Kings, in which the Pacers sent Sabonis Jr., Jeremy Lamb, Justin Holliday and the 2027 second-round picks to trade Halliburton, Hield and Tristan Thompson for the Kings.
This deal seems to be more shocking than the Blazers and Pelicans trade, Sabonis Jr. as an NBA All-Star cut 20+10 data is like a meal, and Sabonis Jr. is also an excellent organizational No. 5 player in the league, but the playing style is very similar to Jokic, but without Jokic's long-range shooting ability, sabonis Jr. averaged 18.9 points, 12.1 rebounds and 5 assists last season. In order to form the Fox + Sabonis Jr. dual-core lineup, the Kings almost gave half of the team's main players to the Pacers.
However, the most incredible thing is that the Kings traded Halliburton, who is only 22 years old this year, and he is very young, as the 12th rookie in the first round of 2020, he has averaged 14.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game, and is also one of the most promising backcourt players in the league. While the Kings sent away the supernova, they also revealed a message that Fox was the core of the Kings' team.
Hield is one of the top scorers in the league, but the situation in the Kings in the past two years is in a difficult situation, from the former core of the team to become a substitute, and now it is swept out by the team, and now Hield joins the Pacers and is also out of touch with the Lakers. It's no secret that the Los Angeles Lakers were interested in Hield, but now they're being preempted by the Pacers.
Another point of great concern is whether the 76ers will send Simmons away before the closing of the deal, knowing that the irreconcilable conflict between Simmons and the 76ers is not overnight.