The Toll of Trades on NBA Players

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Everyone hopes that the NBA Trade Deadline is filled with thermonuclear Woj Bombs that stop us in our tracks. But this year it all ended with a whimper. Still, there were enough players on the move and that leads us to ask some questions: What happens next? What do you do with your family, your pets … and most importantly, your sneakers? As the NBA is past the midpoint of the season, with trades that did and didn't happen, the big question circling around is what’s next? Are there new title contenders in our midst? So today, our Ohm Youngmisuk joins us to break down what’s next and the realities of life in the league when you suddenly find yourself shipped out of town. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Young was just last week, marked the final days leading up to the trade deadline for this
0:06.1	NBA season.
0:07.2	We had the Knicks getting better, the sun's made a move, but nothing really moved the
0:10.9	needle in a big way like we've seen in previous years.
0:13.2	Transaction Twitter was very dormant.
0:15.8	Why is that?
0:16.8	I think a lot of teams were concerned about the punitive terms that they would have to
0:21.9	face next season,
0:24.0	especially for teams like the Clippers who were going to be on that second
0:27.2	apron, who are tax paying teams.
0:29.8	If you were to take on anybody and any money this year and have that on for next year, you really
0:36.3	could be stuck. You had to really be, I think, extra cautious at this trade deadline of what you were going to take on.
0:45.9	But I think this year you what you saw was a lot more trades happening before the deadline.
0:51.2	Like in the Clipper sense, their big trade
0:52.8	was back in November when they got James Harden.
0:55.2	That was their mega trade.
0:57.0	Nix were very busy at the trade deadline,
0:58.7	but they did trade for OG and Enobe earlier.
1:02.3	There were just other trades that happened, I think, a little earlier than the trade deadline,
1:06.0	and then I think that's maybe why you just didn't see as busy or as sexy of a trade deadline this year.
1:12.8	But I think for the fans, obviously,
1:15.2	they kind of wanted, you know, they wanted a lot of wodge bombs.
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