Sound: Perhaps the most crazy NBA trade period ever? – Sun in San Bernardino County

Jim Alexander: I’m not sure if today’s NBA trading deadline has been the most post -further. Here we are dealing with the bias to the rececent-as-a-number of movements, rotating head (and at least one non-movement)-and to determine this will finally require much more research than I am ready to continue at the moment.

But this is certainly followed and I think ESPN analyst Bobby Marx adequately summarized the NBA this morning when he said: “Trade deadline is the new free agency.” of players (and tons of social media activity). Now this is the end, partly because of the new wage limitation rules, and maybe because so many teams see an opening, or at least desperately try to catch the leaders of the Oklahoma City and Cleveland department.

This said that even with the number of moves made by today’s lunch, Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis is still standing alone. And I decided that if there was ever a documentary about the Lakers General Manager, he should be called “Rob Pelinka after dark.” Pelinka pulled the trigger on the Doncic deal late Saturday night, in fact after midnight east time and shortly after Lakers beat Knicks in Madison Square Garden. And he hit again late Thursday night when he assigned the young 7-foot center Mark Williams of Charlotte.

I still don’t know if this makes Lakers more capable of championship or less. There is a defensive component (they are not as good as before trade). There is also the idea, Williams’ deal, I wonder if they will need some calls from the southern Lakers Gulf to fill the bench.

Much to unpack from this deadline, including the moves of the clippers, Kevin Durant remained in Phoenix – one person who many expected to be traded remains set after giving the world that he is not interested in returning to the warriors of the warriors Golden State. – And Pat Riley later solves her problem with Jimmy Butler, along with everything that Danny Ing on earth does in Utah.

But, first, I do, what do you see with this Lakers list?

Mirjam Swanson: I love Lakers’ list.

Like, I’m so excited to watch them play.

As (reformed lol) Clippers defeated a writer, I had a real good look at the onion in the playoffs, because three times he has encountered them in the Administration and he is a monster. An absolute threat. Without unnecessary, all streams – in any language you speak porridge. And the idea of ​​pairing this dude with LeBron James, who is still cooking – everyone says it with me – 22 years?

And they added the perfect athletic center? With a list that has long been the players of roles and the long, heights and wingspan too? This still includes Austin Reeves and Rui Hachamura, and this absolutely has advocates (Jarred Vanderbilt, Dorian Finney Smith and Gabe Vincent are good defenders!)? A team that can shoot 3-indicators playing for a coach who wants to shoot 3S?

Luka + Lebron and a strong support cast? I like it. I really like it.

Jim: I guess the issue in the whole league is whether Lakers are all for this year or all for Life Post-Lebron. When the question was raised to James on Tuesday night by Dylan Hernandez of La Times, his answer was, as I wrote: “What is not wrong with that? If I had concerns, I would give up my clause without trade and got out of here. “

But my feeling was that it was easy to say it now. Let’s see how this partnership works in a month.

And I noted that the question, posed above, comes from outside. Those of us, familiar with the exclusivity of Laker, both inside the organization and among the fans, know that there is no distinction. Lakers always – always – They are striving for banner # 18 and this trade will be evaluated in the immediate future by how close they reach this goal.

Meanwhile, the Western Conference just gets more difficult. OKC did not have to lift a finger (Thunder’s main acquisition returns chet Holmgren), but Houston added a few pieces. Memphis and Denver stood tapped, but Lakers, warriors (with Butler) and Kings (adding Zack Levine and sending De’Aaron Fox to San Antonio) rolled the dice.

And Clippers was active as under the radar, as it looked like Doncic’s deal, sucking the greater part of the oxygen not only in their city but also in the league. They made a deal with Utah for Patty Mills and Backup Big Man Drew Eubanks, and then won the deadline to get Bogdan Bogdanovic from Atlanta, along with three choices of the second round, for Terance Mann and Bones Hyland.

So, where stands the Ingelwood team (the present) at that moment? Did they finely put themselves on a championship song, suggesting that Kauhi Leonard remained in one piece?

Mirjam: If only they could trade for a magic decoction that would keep Cowji in one piece.

Because if it is, they are problems. If not, there is no way.

However, good movements. To get Bogdanovic, Clippers parted with Mann, who gave Clippers one of the biggest moments of the team – exploded for 39 points in an epic return, which raised them to his first finals of the Western Conference and made it in front of the first crowd back After Covid. He really unbuttoned some weighed energy tonight, which is unlike many I have experienced as a sports observer. It was quite cool. And it was hard not to enjoy him, because he was always a good dude, hardworking, someone who was cool but not too cool to take care a lot. But I felt that after five plus seasons, everyone in LA, he and the clippers looked stuck and needed to shake.

Bogdanovic has a season down, but he has an external competitive advantage to him that the quiet carauch clippers always seem to be, that is, especially with his established energy, not just outside the rotation, but entirely by intuition. They took two guys who did not play and turned them into Bogdanovic and a second round trio? It seems reasonable.

And they moved Kevin Porter Jr. to Milwaukee Bucks for Marjon Beauchamp, his colleagues who exchanged – makes me wonder if Mr. Steve Balmer is also familiar with his game? Anyway, another good move; KPJ’s domestic violence case made it difficult for many clippers fans to eradicate, and his dubious court decision made it difficult for him to watch (a fan of clippers, Podkaster Charles Mocller, he said so: “Thank God he didn’t We do it to watch a dribble-moving higher class-clang.

You asked what it means to move any of these pieces, a big picture, a playoff?

Nothing at all if the cauhi is in one piece.

Jim: Several other interesting aspects of this deadline: two former Lakers from the lottery election era changed the teams on Thursday. Kyle Kuzma went from the suppressed wizards of Washington to Milwaukee, joining the Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard in a team that entered the fifth to the east today and may have improved significantly.

And Brandon Ingram moved from New Orleans to Toronto, which is a 5½ games from the play bracket. Yet he moves up the standings, from the Pelicans record 12-39 (dead last to the west) to 16-35 on Raptors.

Meanwhile, jazz has embarked on a few deals to help make things easier, including Lakers-Mavericks Swap and the Warriors-Miami deal, which led Butler to the Bay area and sent Andrew Wiggins to South Florida. Utah took over Dennis Schroeder from the warriors and today turned it over and distributed it to Detroit. (The interesting thing is that the pistons were also part of this four -way deal with warriors and heat on Wednesday, but … wage cap, you know.)

Utah also acquired two choices from the second round of Lakers in the deal with Doncic-AD, 2030. A second of the clippers, along with Mo Bamba (subsequently refused) and PJ Tucker in the Clippers deal, and 2031, first from Phoenix for The Suns’ 2025, 2027 and 2029 the first round. I still scratch my head on the motivation for this one.

And the lightest thing? Ing, who managed Boston Celtics’s front office for years after being a thorn in Lakers’ country as a player, certainly had no intention of helping Lakers unjustified. And the word coming out of Salt Lake City is that he made Lakers solid in terms of salary cap, absorbing the Hood-Schifino contract, but was not familiar with the full trade of up to an hour before it was completed, well after it was completed He agreed to acquire Hood-Shifino for these photos and too late to look back.

Difficult business, right?

Anyway, Mirja, you get the peace of mind before the storm tonight. Lakers play Warriors in the center of LA, but Luke will not play. (Maybe Saturday afternoon against Pacers is the consensus, which is why Espn added this game to his schedule.) And I will be surprised if Butler carries a Warriors uniform tonight, but get out of Miami – and get the expansion from Warriors, That he sought and this led to his activity – he will surely motivate him.

Mirjam: No, not Jimmy, no onion tonight. But we will have Steph and LeBron and I do not accept another of these matches of all time for granted, fleeting as they seem.

I have to say for all moving pieces – and there were many; More, to be honest, than I expected, given that the current CBA restrictions – none of it really felt particularly deep or dramatic or, good, exciting after the bombing Saturday night.