The Whiteboard: 5 big questions left hanging after the NBA Trade Deadline
Championship implications. Missed opportunities. Heartbroken fans. Kevin Durant’s future and the next star up in trade rumors. Our NBA team is answering them all.
The Whiteboard is FanSided’s daily NBA email newsletter with each daily edition written by a different member of our team — Matt Moore, Wes Goldberg, Chris Kline, Lior Lampert, Quinn Everts and Ian Levy. On Saturday, we all get together for one big roundtable to answer the biggest questions of the week.
Here’s what we’re talking about today:
Does any trade deadline have bigger championship implications than the Cavs stealing De’Andre Hunter?
Matt Moore: As much as I liked that move, the deal that actually moved the needle the most is probably one we don’t see now. Maybe it’s Mark Williams (which would actually be the Luka move, but still). Maybe it’s Bogdan Bogdanovic for a surprise Clippers run. But there are always plot twists in the NBA and even if it’s not a player, it could be one of the million seconds that got passed around. But there are so many ramifications from trade deadlines that you won’t be able to see the ripples of from here. That’s what’s fun about sports, and the unknowability of fate.
