NBA Trade Deadline Winners & Losers
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ben Golliver and Michael Pina react to Thursday's NBA trade deadline, handing out their grades for a busier-than-expected day and running through the winners and losers. Were the Orlando Magic smart for pulling the plug? How do Nikola Vucevic, Aaron Gordon and Evan Fournier fit in their new homes? Which aspiring contenders in the West made moves that could tilt the title chase? Will the Miami Heat's many new additions boost them higher in the East standings? Was anyone a bigger loser than the Houston Rockets? Did the Chicago Bulls make a sneaky good play by adding Daniel Theis? Should the Raptors have lowered their asking price to get a Kyle Lowry trade done or was grabbing Gary Trent Jr. enough? Will Portland be willing to pay up to keep Norman Powell or is this a short-term rental only? Will Victor Oladipo's short Houston tenure turn into another example of Player Tanking?
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Open Floor Globe? This is Ben Gulliver with The Washington Post. I am joined on the other line by Michael the pod, Pina of Sports Illustrated. Michael, two weeks ago, you and I came on here demanding trades. It was very quiet, eerily quiet. We had all sorts of names we wanted to see moved. And guess what, Michael? A lot of those |
| 0:21.9 | names actually moved on Thursday before the 3 p.m. Eastern trade deadline. I got to say, |
| 0:28.1 | for the first time ever, all the blog boys can celebrate because the Orlando Magic are actually |
| 0:34.1 | newsworthy, and I think that we have to start with them. We saw Orlando unload three starters, Nikola Vucevic to the Chicago Bulls, |
| 0:43.5 | Aaron Gordon to the Denver Nuggets, and Evan Fournier to your beloved Boston Celtics. |
| 0:49.3 | I kind of felt like they were almost the power broker here. |
| 0:52.4 | They were the ones having a garage sale. I think some of our |
| 0:55.6 | talk recently, Michael, about teams that were still in the play and mix, not necessarily becoming sellers, |
| 1:02.0 | did prove true. Most of the major deals we saw were from teams kind of already eliminated, whether it |
| 1:07.8 | was Orlando or Houston sending out Victor Oladipo. And so that really set |
| 1:13.1 | things up for Orlando to kind of be, you know, like I said, the garage sale team. Let's start with |
| 1:18.3 | the Vucevic move because I believe he was the best player traded. I believe he was the only |
| 1:23.6 | 2021 All-Star traded on Thursday. Who won and who lost that deal, Michael? |
| 1:29.5 | Orlando sends out their nine-year franchise center to Chicago, gets back Wendell Carter, Jr., |
| 1:36.2 | Otto Porter, and two first-round picks. |
| 1:39.3 | And they also, by the way, sent out Al-Frucaminu in that deal to Chicago as well. |
| 1:43.9 | Who won, Who lost? |
| 1:47.2 | Well, I mean, you're burying the lead here, which is in my trade deadline primer over at |
| 1:56.5 | SI.com. I called this exact transaction down to the draft picks. |
| 2:04.2 | And so, um, so it sounds like you're, |
| 2:08.9 | round of applause. |
| 2:09.7 | Yeah, no, it sounded like your back maybe needed some padding. |
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