Breaking down the Northwest Division trades at the deadline

The Northwest Division was silent for most of the NBA trade deadline, and it stayed that way besides a deal involving the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Northwest Division was a part of two deals in the last couple weeks before the NBA trade deadline. The Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers and Oklahoma City Thunder made moves to solidify their rosters; the Jazz and Timberwolves stayed put.

Utah missed out on a great opportunity to package a couple of their young prospects for another starter. The Jazz are going to struggle resigning everyone (Gordon Hayward, George Hill, Joe Ingles and Shelvin Mack are all free agents this offseason) but packaging Trey Lyles, Dante Exum and/or Alec Burks…