Hey guys, happy holidays. Something we've been talking about a lot over here is the NBA's depth problem.

With so many players out in health and safety protocols, aka something COVID-related,

rosters have been thinned out over the last two months. The league is now allowing teams to sign temporary

replacement players to fill in for players with COVID.

It's been such a hectic season, and these personnel changes have happened so quickly.

JMs are scrambling to find players, and to plan for a future that is impossible to predict.

Still, making a move before the trade deadline in February might be more important than ever.

So it felt like a good time to re-release this episode that we first ran in March.

Katie Hindle asked players, what does it feel like to be traded?

Welcome to the show, Katie.

Thanks so much for having me.

So in the days after the trade deadline, I couldn't stop thinking about how quickly we digest it and the ways we digest it.

You're reading what fans say on Twitter and what bloggers say and columnists say and is it a good fit.

Is it a bad fit?

It feels very rushed for the players i think it's like it's so speculative online you know it's like 24-7 discourse we just talk we're like

oh you know i saw this one coming and it isn't a surprise a blah blah blah and like i think with how

accelerated the news can be around a trade,

we lose a lot of the time, the feeling of what it's like for a player and, like, the actuality

of how this impacts their lives. We're always talking about on-court fit and not any other

context about whether it would be good or bad for the player. On-court fit or like weird salary matching stuff, you know,

like making a player basically just work them out to like their monetary value, which is weird

and gross too. I can't imagine seeing someone on Twitter being like, man, Haley doesn't deserve to be

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