This season’s NBA Trade Deadline came and went without much fanfare, for any NBA team, really. With big names like James Harden, Pascal Siakam, and OG Anunoby moved well before the calendar flipped to 2024, we were set for a calmer trade deadline than in years’ past. In large part because there would be no future Hall-of-Famer requesting his way off the Brooklyn Nets.
Gordon Hayward, who made one All-Star team seven years ago, was likely the biggest acquisition on trade-deadline day, made by the first-place Oklahoma City Thunder. And the Nets, who appeared in every trade rumor imaginable over the past month, played their part in the lack of spectacle.