How Active Will the Trail Blazers Be at the Trade Deadline?
It makes sense for Portland to trade Anfernee Simons and Jerami Grant by Thursday. Whether they'll be able to remains to be seen.
Heading into the weekend, this was the opening I had drafted for this column:
In what could be some famous last words, don’t expect a lot of fireworks ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline.
That doesn’t mean some big deals couldn’t happen, be it involving the Trail Blazers or elsewhere around the NBA. But anyone expecting or hoping for a frenzy of movement before 3 p.m. Eastern time on Feb. 6 is probably setting themselves up for disappointment.
So much for that.
In the immediate aftermath of the out-of-the-blue Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade that short-circuited the NBA on Saturday night, followed by the De’Aaron Fox-Zach LaVine three-team trade on Sunday, the entire league is still wrapping its head around what it means for the rest of the trade market over the next four days.
There are two things to keep in mind this time of year: