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Bamboozled at the NBA trade deadline.

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And I must admit, I must admit, that was one of the more exciting trade deadlines in my lifetime. How do you quantify the difference between different eras of trade deadlines was just amazing unless it wasn't.

Unless it was not amazing.

And again, I would like to quote the president of the United States, the honorable Donald J. Trump.

And if he was talking about this, he would say that CNN must have been the one feeding all these NBA rumors,

because that was definitely fake news.

We, man, we spent the last three days yapping about hoop dreams and trades,

and Carmelo Anthony was going to go to the Celtics, and Jimmy Butler, and Paul George were in play.

Boston was calling the Clippers about Blake Griffin, yada, yada, yada, yada.

Earth-shattering trades.

Earth-shattering trades.

And what did we get?

We got Taj Gibson.

Taj Gibson going to Oklahoma City.

Kind of turned on.

It's exciting.

That's very intriguing. I can spend 17 hours breaking

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