This year's NBA trading deadline is February 10, and the last 48 hours are crazy...
Last year we had the privilege of witnessing magic send away the three cores overnight, and this year we witnessed the Blazers' crazy demolition of homes.
Lillard woke up
Just a few days ago, through a big 2-for-4 deal, the Blazers who sent Powell and Covington, two iron wheels to the Clippers, reached a blockbuster deal today.
According to Shams, the Blazers have reached an agreement with the Pelicans to send out CJ McCollum, Larrinas Jr. and Snell, from the Pelicans to Josh Hart, Alexander Walker, Satoransky, Didi Luzada, 2022 first-round picks (protected) and two future second-round picks.
From the rumors of contact between the Blazers and pelicans that came out yesterday, to the blockbuster deal of 3 for 7 directly reached today, how eager the Blazers are to send CJ away...
However, the real big deals have always happened instantaneously, unlike someone in the west next door, who has been speculating for half a year and is still in the same place.
Say goodbye, there will be no pioneer double gun in the jianghu from now on.
Lillard was selected in 2012, CJ joined the Blazers a year later than Lillard, and the two have been working together for 8 and a half years in the blink of an eye.
The cooperation between the two people is not bad or bad, the first 8 years have entered the playoffs, 5 round trips, but also entered a Western Conference final, every year is the spoiler of the West, but the upper limit seems to be just a spoiler.
This year seems to be no drama, so the Blazers simply began to mess up, and the trade began to rebuild.
However, the Blazers are also kind to CJ, not too entangled in chips, and it is said that considering CJ's willingness to trade him to a team suitable for him to play, the pelicans' new lineup looks really good, provided that it stays healthy.
It is that Lillard is more miserable, the offseason is noisy to go, and as a result, now the Blazers are almost one of him...
After the last big deal, he was left alone, as if it was really Lillard.
This time, the Blazers still have a Nurkic for the time being, but it is estimated that it is worse than the trade, after all, if Nurkic can have the strength to completely change the Blazers, it is estimated that it will have been exchanged for a real star.
After these two crazy trades, the Blazers are obviously running to rebuild, but from the perspective of our ordinary fans, the Blazers seem to be bloody losses in both trades...
It is said that the most important thing to rebuild is the draft picks, such as the Thunder, which in the past two years is almost equal to a Wei Shao and slowly hatched a dozen first rounds.
The Blazers' two deals have almost completely empty after the main + main rotation, but only one first round has been withdrawn, or the protected kind.
There is a feeling that other people rebuild that people are still without draft picks, and the Blazers rebuild is that people are really gone. Now that CJ and Powell are gone, who else can the Blazers trade for draft picks? Hart or Satoransky? Or Lillard Bend?
However, according to Mingji, the Blazers' plan is to rebuild around Lillard, and after trading CJ, they also received a 21 million transaction exception, and the Blazers will have 60 million salary space this summer.
Theoretically, there is a possibility of losing rid of Harden, Irving and other big stars, but do the Blazers really have this attraction?