Earlier this NBA season we predicted that this year’s trade deadline would be a pretty quiet one. After the Pacers moved to get Pascal Siakam, there just didn’t seem to be too many major moves left to make on the trade market.
Now, here we are on deadline day. Quiet probably isn’t quite the word to use to describe the day’s events considering that we saw the number of trades over the last 24 hours hit double-digits. With that said, deadline day definitely didn’t trigger the same sort of excitement we’ve seen over the last few years.
Last season we got the Kevin Durant deal the night before the deadline. The year before that the Domantas Sabonis trade happened. And, of course, you’ve got the James Harden trade there, too.
The 2024 NBA trade deadline lacked those big names and that excitement. There were a few reasons why.
Let’s dive into them.