Washington Post national NBA writer Tim Bontemps hands out his grades for some of the biggest deals before the NBA's trading deadline, Thursday at 3 p.m. Eastern. Here they are, presented in chronological order of completion:
Oklahoma City Thunder get Taj Gibson, Doug McDermott and a 2018 second-round pick; Chicago Bulls get Cameron Payne, Joffrey Lauvergne and Anthony Morrow.
Grades - Oklahoma City: A, Chicago: C-
Oklahoma City did an excellent job of using its roughly $7 million in cap space to acquire Gibson, who should become their starting power forward, and McDermott, who can give them some shooting on the wings - something the Thunder desperately need.