For anyone who’s been living under a rock for the past 48 to 72 hours, the NBA’s annual trade deadline came and went and along with it a bevy of deals. In recent years the trade deadline has failed to live up to its hype. It has usually involved deals for role players that are meant to tune up the contenders and give them that one final missing piece or the teams that are out of contention shedding pay roll and trying to blow things up and start over. There’s also the small group of GM’s that don’t know what they’re doing and regularly make deals that leave everyone scratching their head for days, if not weeks. David Kahn and Chris Wallace anyone?
What we saw this year was absolutely insane and it all started with the trading of Carmello Anthony to the Knicks. After that, the dominoes began to fall and teams starting moving forward with plans B and C. So what exactly happened? How did we get from what many believed to be a quiet trade deadline to me getting off an air plane after an hour long flight and being immediately bombarded by text messages and tweets about everything that had gone down? A lot of it was desperation. In other instances it was paranoia. And like always there was the occasional they did what moment. So let’s take a look at everything that happened starting with Carmello Anthony. Continue reading
Part one of a four part series…
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