The annual trade deadline is the craziest day of the NBA regular season. Every team that wants to adjust their squad and salary space will make the final deal on this day according to their needs.
After this day, there can be no more trades, only from the free agent market or buyout players.
So why some teams make some jaw-dropping, meat-cutting deals (like the Trail Blazers), why some teams succeed in bottoming out (like Philadelphia), why some teams can level the wind and thunder and do a big vote (like the Kings), why some teams can't play a fart (like the Lakers).
In fact, it is all related to their respective needs.
Therefore, when we evaluate their respective operations, we must not only look at the quality of the transaction, the gains and losses of the players, but also whether they have achieved their goals.
First, the Nets sent Harden and Millsap away, and got Simmons, Seth Curry, Drummond from Philadelphia, the 2022 first-round pick (the Nets can choose to change to the 2023 first-round pick), the 2027 first-round pick (the top eight protection).
The heaviest deal of the transfer period, Harden forced the Nets to send it to Philadelphia a year after leaving the Rockets, and joined hands with his old boss again.
From the Nets' perspective, they are reluctant to send the 2018 MVP away at this time anyway.
But Harden's contradictions with Irving, and the attitude of not contributing to the team now, have forced them to stop it after just one year. After all, Harden has player options at the end of the season, and it is very likely that they will run away directly to let them play a basket.
After a long, multifaceted effort to no avail, they had to put Harden in the market.
While Philadelphia is equally hungry for Harden, the Nets are more pressing in this deal, so the initiative is in Philadelphia's hands.
So they saved two great outside players, Sable and Maxi, and two draft picks were protected, and it took a starting guard (Seth Curry), a backup center (Drummond) and a doomed Simmons to get James Harden.
Embiid + Harris + Sable (Danny Green) + Harden + Maxi.
In theory, this is a combination of both offense and defense, and there is no serious conflict in the core players' playing style.
Following LeBron's finding of thick eyebrows in 2019, another James has also found his own best interior partner.
On the Nets side, now that Durant is injured and Irving has not had a game, Nash can only rely on the aging Mills as the core of the ball in recent games. If Simmons insists on training and keeping him in good shape during his absence, he has a good chance of becoming the absolute core of the Nets in the near future.
In the playoffs, if Simmons is willing to play small ball center, then his +Durant + Harris + Mills + Irving's "extreme small ball team" is still very effective.
Durant, on the other hand, is probably the best partner that can be found on all the interiors that can't shoot three-pointers (reference to Dream Green in the Warriors era).
And he came together with a sharpshooter named Curry,
Griffin and Simmons, two "Jenna ex-boyfriends" are also magically on the same team, along with his old partner Drummond in the Pistons.
The Nets finally have a reliable internal pile.
Deal Rating: Philadelphia A+ Nets B
Second, the Bucks, Clippers, Pistons, kings four-way trade
The Bucks get: Ibaka, two second-round picks, cash.
Kings get: Di Vincenzo, Trey Lyles, Josh Jackson.
The Clippers got: Hood, Ojele.
Pistons get: Marvin Bagley.
Facing the two main rivals in the East, the Bucks are not idle, perhaps they have long known that they will go to Philadelphia, so they moved ahead of time, sending DiVichenzo and fronts Hood and Ojele, who were in great condition after being seriously injured last season, and Ibaka, the clippers' championship.
Their champion center, Big Lopez, has only played one game this season to hang up the free card, so there is an urgent need for alphabet brother to find an inside shield that can support for twenty minutes in the playoffs. He had also experimented with Cousins briefly before, but this time he had exchanged it directly for the experienced Ibaka.
With the excellent performance of Grayson Allen this season (the game is not right, but the court is really good), the rise of newcomer Envera, especially the excellent performance of returning veteran Matthews, the Bucks' forward line is thick enough, because the interior line after Lopez's injury has become the primary goal.
And the Kings, after getting Sabonis Jr., who played all-Star, also completely abandoned the 2018 chart star Bagley, in exchange for Di Vichenzo, although their defender line was more bloated, but the contract only lasted until the end of the season.
The deal was purely a deal for the king to do with the flow of people, incidentally dealing with the uncontrolled Bagley.
Trade ratings: Pistons B, Clippers B, Bucks A-, Kings B
The Spurs traded Derek White for Richardson, Langford and a future first-round pick for the Greens.
With Dejuntay Murray being named an All-Star and deciding who the Spurs will be the future flag bearer, derrick White, who shined in the 2019 playoffs, will no longer have to stay, after all, there are young Lonnie Walker behind him, and Vaseller needs to play time and the ball.
The Green Army's defensive line has always been a problem, after Irving left, in addition to Kamba Walker in the 2019-20 season in line with expectations, neither Schroeder nor Walker himself can really connect with the Green Army with star fronts such as Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
Walker, who is 27 years old this year, is the kind of "good boy" who gives him the ball to blast out the all-Star stats and can be a team fit for the puzzle. The spurs' defenders will basically not disappoint in the team tandem and tactical organization, and the Green Army finally has a reliable ball controller.
This should be a win-win business.
Deal Rating: Spurs B+, Green Army A
Fourth, the Lone Ranger exchanged Porzingis + a second-round pick for Dinwiddie + Bertans
This was probably the most unexpected deal of the trading day, and Porzingis, who had been considered Doncic's "lifelong partner", finally made the Lone Ranger lose patience, and exchanged the Wizards for Dinwiddie and the outside cannon Bertans.
This year, the Lone Ranger, in the hands of Jason Kidd, has evolved from an offensive brigade that was once the league's offensive efficiency to the fifth most conservative in the league's defense. Even Doncic's defensive stats are at the highest level of his career, and the only one who may be pulled across is Porzingis.
The Lone Ranger's defensive efficiency was 109 when he was on the floor this season and improved to 107.2 when he wasn't on the floor.
Although the replacement Bertans said that it was an interior line, in fact, a three-point far stronger than the defensive outside turret, but Dinwiddie's organizational and key ball ability, at least on paper, is more suitable for partnering Doncic than Bronson.
Transaction Rating: Lone Ranger B+, Wizard b
The Hornets traded Vernon Carey, Ismail Smith and a second-round pick for Monte Harrell
The Hornets exchanged two unimportant last-place rotations and a second-round pick for Harrell's inside killer. He can still finish with 14.1 points and 6.7 rebounds in 24.3 minutes at the Wizards this season, still the best sixth-man performance.
The Hornets, after sitting on the three-goal pass master, Hayward, Oubre, Bridges and other forward players, also urgently need to add a strong man on the inside.
Being able to get Harrell at such a price at this stage can only be said that Boss Joe is now more and more in business.
Sixth, the Lakers - rare restraint and rationality, or perhaps helpless
During the craziest time of last night's trading, I am afraid that the most nervous thing was the Lakers fans. But until the official closing of the window at 4 a.m. today, the Lakers, who were considered to be the most tradeable, did not move at all, leaving purple fans like the author waiting for a lonely time.
But the more you want to trade, the more passive you are, and the higher the price will be on the opposite side of the transaction. "Take advantage of your illness, want your life", in the NBA "charcoal in the snow" will only be considered stupid and weak, not to mention the Lakers and James, the target of the whole league.
If the Lakers want to rush to the championship this season, they must trade Off Westbrook and get the immediate combat power corresponding to their 44 million salary. But everyone had already seen the horror of Zhan Mei's full play, and now it was hard to have Wei Shao "calm" them, who was not happy?
And if the Lakers really deal with the Price of Westbrook, plus their only 2027 first-round pick in five years to exchange for Wall, it is just a change of "death method".
Wall, who hasn't played in a season, is also a fan, but certainly not the former First Point Guard in the East Side.
Therefore, the Lakers management on this trading day is at least restrained and rational.
They didn't go to the slaughter in order to clean up Westbrook, nor did they rush to the doctor because of the team's poor record and make some inexplicable deals.
They are still focused on buying out the player market as they were last year, looking forward to harvesting like the big Morris of the previous year and Drummond last year.
Only this season, the Lakers' championship story has ended.
And Lakers fans, quick-acting heart-saving pills still have to be ready.