Unable to prepare for the upcoming season without switching teams since the summer of 2016, Doug McDermott, time and time again, has been the transactional means to a desired, though sometimes questionable, end.
Chicago, who had the league’s worst 3-point percentage in the age of the Three Alphas, traded their best 3-point shooter along with Taj Gibson to add Cameron Payne’s youth to their existing stockpile of non-shooting guards. Seven months later, after being acquired to space the floor for Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City packaged him with Enes Kanter to fetch Carmelo Anthony.