Title: UNCERTAINTY CARRIES THE DAY AT THE NBA TRADE DEADLINE
Date: February 19, 2016
Original Source: Vice
Synopsis: I wrote about how the league-wide uncertainty of how the NBA’s salary cap boom will impact the market led to a boring trade deadline.
On a day that saw 20 players and 11 draft picks move as part of nine different deals, the only undeniable NBA’s trade deadline winner was market uncertainty. There was some wheeling and dealing, to be sure—and congratulations to the Philadelphia 76ers on their new Joel Anthony—but in a broad sense, the day was eerily quiet and notably unmoving.
This was the expectation ahead of the 2015 trade deadline, too, which saw an unbelievable flurry of eleventh-hour activity. The possibility of a repeat died a quiet death on Thursday. The NBA universe sat glued to TweetDeck well past the 3 PM deadline, waiting for one final WojBomb that never came. Instead, the 2016 deadline was bogged down by the thing that was supposed to slow the wheels in 2015—a paralysis related to the looming boom in the NBA’s salary cap.
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Blake Murphy Sports Writing 