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JJ Redick, you were traded at the Trade Deadline once. Yeah, 259 pm.

259 pm. A minute to spare. Did you know you were going to get traded that week or

were you, did you think there was a chance like what's the process or you just refreshing the

internet all the time? What are you doing? It was weird because going back to the summer before,

we had a new coach, Yacht Von, we had a new GM Rob Hennington. So I met with Rob that summer and

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an expiring deal at the time. I think it was like a $6.2 million expiring deal which at the time,

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