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Friday, February 10, 2023

NBA Showdown 2023 Trade Deadline Set


 What a wild last week it was in the ever evolving drama that is the NBA season. From a Kyrie trade request to a final day of the deadline wake up surprise to Kevin Durant getting moved to the Phoenix suns, the NBA world was in a frenzy.


 I won't ever deny it, the off the court NBA is way more entertaining than the on court NBA, but thankfully for me I love both. The trade deadline is my non playoff favorite time of the year as every move gives teams hope for improvement on their championship or playoff runs. While the sellers it gives hope in the lottery ticket to win the ultimate Powerball Victor Wembanyama. Now since this is a baseball blog, some may not be familiar with the French prospect but he is a 7'4 freak of an athlete that NBA General Managers are salivating over the chances to get him on their team. 

(What are you going to do against a guy like this?)

But anyway back to the NBA current script, like last year I made a trade deadline set highlighting some of the best moves from around the association. This year however I included every player that was moved that would have qualified for a card, only about 6-8 players didn't receive a trade deadline card. Last year I listed trade by trade, but with the 40+ card that I made I am not going to do that but if you need a link to all of the trades I will link it right here. I will however list the two big trades that sent players around the league

Suns receive:




  • Nets receive:




  • Juan Pablo Vaulet
  • 2023 first-round pick (from Phoenix)
  • 2025 first-round pick (from Phoenix)
  • 2027 first-round pick (from Phoenix)
  • 2028 first-round pick swap (from Phoenix)
  • 2028 second-round pick (from Milwaukee)
  • 2029 first-round pick (from Phoenix
  • 2029 second-round pick (from Milwaukee)

Bucks receive:



  • Jae hasn't played this season so heres last year

Pacers receive:



  • Serge Ibaka


  • 3 future second-round picks (from Milwaukee)
  • Cash considerations (from Brooklyn)

    When I woke up Thursday morning and saw the news to this I only had one reaction

    Lakers receive:







    Timberwolves receive:



    • Nickeil Alexander-Walker
    • 2024 2nd-round pick swap (via Lakers)
    • 2025 2nd-round pick (via Jazz)
    • 2026 2nd round pick (via Jazz)

    Jazz receive:

Here are the rest of the players that were traded this past week. If you didn't notice already and were unsure of what team the player was traded to, look at the bottom left hand corner of the card for their new teams logo.































Finally as a thank you for your patience, here is a look at the three teams with the biggest shake ups new look best 5's. I could do this for hours, but figured we will save the teams that stayed relatively the same for the end of the season set. Let me know what you guys think in the comments. All 3 teams were kind enough to keep their lineups below 4000 as the rules state.
Suns- 3970
Lakers- 3510
Mavs- 3380



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