To say it’s been a whirlwind week around the NBA would be the grandest of understatements; there’s hardly been a week like it in years with trades, trade talk, front-office departures and expected player departures leaked a year ahead of time.
D’Angelo Russell is a Net, Dwight Howard is a Hornet, Jimmy Butler is, for now, still a Bull, and Paul George has yet to squirm his way out of Indiana. No one seems to be fully in charge in Cleveland after general manager David Griffin was shown the door, and one-time Raptors wheeler and dealer Bryan Colangelo threw himself in the middle of the fray by dealing Philadelphia’s third pick to Boston for the No.