Thunder blessed to be outside the NBA rumor mill

Paul George guards Memphis' Mike Conley on Thursday night. (Photo by Bryan Terry)The Thunder didn’t make a deal on Thursday, the NBA’s trade deadline, which means the only roster change was the trade that sent Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot and cash to Chicago for a protected second-round pick.

So OKC likely paid the Bulls to take TLC off its hands. And the Thunder did it last week, which meant the Thunder wasn’t even a blip on trade deadline day.

ESPN’s Zach Lowe, who does a masterful job of analyzing roster and potential roster changes, wrote 3,187 words Thursday night on the effects of this trade season. How teams are affected by now and the future. He included teams that made no deals, including…