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Welcome to Lockton NBA on. On a Tuesday, everybody.

I'm Wes Goldberg from the Mercury News and host of Lockton Warriors here with the host of

Lockton Heat, David Rimmill.

And on today's show, the Hornets move on without Lamello Ball.

The nets deal with more injuries and we pay tribute to an

NBA great. But we begin today with the trade deadline. With only a couple of days

until the deadline, David and I are going to go through some of the top potential trade targets and rank our top five

most impactful players who could get moved between now and then.

It's important to know that this is for this season.

We're not talking about impact for the future, just which player

would make the greatest impact this season. So David, let's start with your

number one most impactful trade target.

You know, I actually suggested this topic and I found it to be much more

difficult than I thought it should be.

Like I had no criteria here and I asked you what your criteria was and basically you just explained it to the audience but it's so hard to gauge this because a lot of it is yeah it seems like on the surface it could be a big move but unless it's for the right team it might not

necessarily work out as impactfully as we could quantify it so I find it to be a lot

more challenging than I expected to do you have the same problem? What I found was that I didn't necessarily go with who just the best player in a vacuum would be, but kind of what you just said,

it really depends on where that player goes because you can move a really good player like a

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