Welcome to the Saturday Slammon Jam here on the Athletic MBA Daily.

On today's show, my good buddy Fred Katz joins to hand out some trade awards.

It was an insane week of trades here with the NBA?

Fred, how was your last 24 to 72 hours?

Sleepless, exhausting, still trying to get over that Charlotte, Oklahoma City trade, where they just traded a

2029 second rounder for a 2030 second rounder. Unquestionably.

So that like a pick, Mike convey? I mean, come on. Yeah. Unquestionably, my favorite trade

of the trade deadline. It it was it was reminiscent of the

kazi akpala pick pick protection removal that's right that's right years ago that all of us remember

so well it was it's it's it's one of those trades that you, you're, you like, you know that

there are maybe one or two people in your life that you can talk to that trade about. Like,

and the vast majority of people, like, just have no interest whatsoever. But here's the thing,

two things. Number one, there are one or two people in your life where you can talk about it but the one

or two people in your life you can talk about it with you can talk about it for like seven hours

and what's amazing is none of the people that you can talk about it with are people listening to

this podcast and that's how we decided to start the show. So that's exactly right. That's exactly

right. This is going well. Fred, we're going to do trade awards today. And so I have several

different categories that we're going to go over to kind of break down the trade deadline.

And the first one is the Powell Gasol Award, the trade that made a team a true contender.

And I don't know if there's really another answer to this other than Luca Donchitz to the Lakers because it's Luca Donchich to the Lakers.

And we've talked about this on many podcasts.

I'm sure that you have heard about it if you're listening to this show,

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