What teams NEED to make a trade | Morning Shoot Around
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The NBA Daily crew put all 30 teams into tiers of teams that need to make trades before the upcoming deadline.
Host: Andrew Schlecht
With: Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the morning shootaround here on the athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:12.3 | We're live on our YouTube page. |
| 0:15.3 | We would love to have you join us on a weekly basis, usually around 1 o'clock Eastern time, which I know is not the morning. |
| 0:22.6 | But you know what? |
| 0:23.2 | For people like Dave and Zina, it is. |
| 0:26.8 | So in your face, everybody else. |
| 0:29.5 | All right. |
| 0:30.1 | The trade deadline is eight days away. |
| 0:33.5 | We did have a report drop today about Janus, which is exciting. |
| 0:39.0 | And all I can think about is we're doing a studio show next week in Chicago at the athletic football show studio. |
| 0:48.2 | For the trade deadline, we're going to be broadcasting from 8 a.m. Central all the way, probably until like 2.30, 3 o'clockish. So we will be |
| 0:56.8 | live. We would love to have you join us then as well. And all I can think about is, please Milwaukee |
| 1:02.0 | bucks. One, wait until next Thursday. And then two, please trade him. So the report is, it's a, |
| 1:09.4 | it's a weird read. You know, like sometimes you read something and you're just like, man, oh, it's such a silly update. This is a really weird read. And, uh, here it is two times. Chat GPT. Tell me how to make a vague trade request from a player, please. I don't know. This is even like a level above chat GPT. |
| 1:29.9 | Is there an M-Dash in it? |
| 1:31.6 | I haven't actually looked at the report. |
| 1:33.6 | Hey, M-dash is are useful, by the way. |
| 1:36.6 | Yeah, I agree. |
| 1:37.8 | I had a M-dash early. |
| 1:40.4 | M-dashes were invented in 2009. |
| 1:43.8 | All right, Dave, let me read the tweet, okay? |
| 1:45.5 | I don't believe you. |
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