What was expected to be a sleepy NBA trade deadline season has kicked off with, well, maybe not a bang, but a very complicated sound? Like, maybe it’s kicked off with a bagpipe?
Sure. Let’s go with bagpipe.
The Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets and Denver Nuggets engaged in a four-team, twelve-player trade — the NBA’s biggest deal, players-wise, since the Knicks traded Patrick Ewing to the Sonics twenty years ago.
You can read all the specifics here, but the net takeaway (as far as meaningful assets go) is:
To Rockets: Robert Covington — a three and D wing whose been a bit lighter on both of those things than usual this year.