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OG Anunoby, RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley trade grades: Who won the Knicks – Raptors deal?

An inter-division trade is sending a two-way star back to the New York Knicks

The New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors are shaking things up with an inter-division trade on Saturday morning.

According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Raptors are sending OG Anunoby to New York for a package including Immanuel Quickley and Toronto-native RJ Barrett.

It’s not a surprise to see the Raptors move major pieces and attempt to retool at this point in the year. Toronto is 12-19, last in the Atlantic Division and already falling behind in the race for the postseason play-in games. The Knicks, meanwhile, get another star player on an expiring contract to pair with Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle.

So who won the trade? Let’s break it down.

OG Anunoby’s hilarious reaction to viral Victor Wembanyama block

After Victor Wembanyama stuffed him in the San Antonio Spurs’ loss to the Toronto Raptors, OG Anunoby had a hilarious reaction post-game.

The San Antonio Spurs lost a tough one to the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, falling 123-116 in overtime. Scottie Barnes stole the show with an electrifying performance, but the Spurs will walk away believing they should have won. They were up by double digits for a large portion of the game but allowed a late-game comeback by Toronto.

That said, Victor Wembanyama still pulled off a few of his signature highlight-reel plays. He finished the game with five blocks, and the most viral one was a snatch block against OG Anunoby at the rim. Anunoby tried to put the ball up for a layup, but Wembanyama just grabbed the ball on his shot attempt.

After the game, Anunoby couldn’t do anything but laugh when asked about the moment.

Watch: Steph Curry and trainer Brandon Payne host minicamp with Trae Young, OG Anunoby and other NBA players

The Warriors star guard was on the court with Trae Young, Og Anunoby, Seth Curry, Moses Moody and other NBA players at a recent mini camp.

With the start of the training camp looming, Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry is getting ready in the gym.

Before the start of the 2023-24 NBA campaign, Curry and his longtime trainer Brandon Payne of Accelarate Basketball hosted a recent minicamp with multiple other members of the Warriors and other NBA players in Las Vegas.

Along with Brandin Podziemski, Trayce Jackson-Davis, Moses Moody and Lester Quinones, other NBA players Trae Young, Seth Curry, Josh Christopher, Kenneth Faried and Kent Bazemore joined Curry and Payne at the minicamp in Last Vegas. UConn basketball guard Azzi Fudd also joined the camp.

During the camp, the players worked on fundamentals and shooting drills.

Watch highlights from Curry and Payne’s minicamp via YouTube:

Along with hosting a camp in Las Vegas with NBA players, Curry recently organized a players-only camp for the Warriors. Every member of the Warriors except for Dario Saric was in attendance.

Training camp for the Warriors is scheduled to start on Oct. 2 in San Francisco. The Warriors’ preseason slate will start five days later on Oct. 7 against the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Washburn: Boston Celtics should ‘look up north’ for a pair of trade targets

The Raptors “got some guys on some expiring contracts coming up that might be available to the Celtics” per the Globe reporter.

If the Boston Celtics plan on making more moves this offseason, one prominent NBA reporter believes they ought to look beyond the borders of the US for a pair of intriguing targets. The Boston Globe’s Gary Washburn related in a recent interview with NBC Sports Boston that the Celtics should “look up north for some solutions” to make a trade with the Toronto Raptors for what the team needs to take a step forward as a contender.

“Pascal Siakam and OG Anunoby,” floated Washburn. “Toronto has got to figure out whether it wants to rebuild or whether it wants to retool. They lost Fred VanVleet. They signed Dennis Schroder; they’re a team in total limbo right now.”

“They’ve got some guys on some expiring contracts coming up that might be available to the Celtics with all this draft capital, all the second round picks they’ve picked up over the last couple of weeks,” continued the Globe reporter.

“I think looking north would be their next move, but … they need to wait to this market to dry out,” suggested Washburn. “There are going to be some available guys in free agency who are going to be up to minimum deals.”

“They could come to Boston to have a chance to win a championship and continue their careers, because right now the market is drying and some of these guys are going to get left out.”

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Report: Warriors called Raptors with interest in trade centered around Jordan Poole and OG Anunoby

Before acquiring Chris Paul in a deal with the Wizards, the Warriors reportedly made a call to the Raptors with interest in a trade centered around Jordan poole and OG Anunoby.

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Before landing Brandin Podziemski and Trayce Jackson-Davis in the 2023 edition of the NBA Draft, the Golden State Warriors made headlines on draft night with a blockbuster trade.

The Warriors agreed to trade a package centered around Jordan Poole to the Washington Wizards for veteran All-Star point guard Chris Paul. Along with Poole, the Warriors traded Ryan Rollins, Patrick Baldwin Jr. and picks for the 38-year-old point guard.

Prior to agreeing to a deal with the Wizards, the Warriors reportedly made other calls about trade packages around Poole. According to Tim Kawakami of The Athletic, the Warriors made a call to the Toronto Raptors about a trade centered around Poole and OG Anunoby.

Via The Athletic:

One of the Warriors’ calls, I’m told, was to check with Toronto about a proposal centering on Poole for 25-year-old forward OG Anunoby. But the Raptors weren’t interested. According to Yahoo Sports’ Jake Fischer, the Warriors also had talks with the Celtics and had interest from the Spurs, though it’s hard to come up with good trade matches for Poole on either team.

Read Kawakami’s full report via The Athletic here.

Via @TheAthleticNBA on Twitter:

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Free Agency: What’s next for the Kings with $35 million cap space?

How the Sacramento Kings could use $35 million in cap space to improve the team and renegotiate and extend Domantas Sabonis.

The Sacramento Kings are heading into the offseason looking to build off their successful 2022-23 campaign. They entered last night’s draft with the 24th overall selection, which they could’ve used to add another building block toward their future. Instead, they traded the pick and Richaun Holmes to the Dallas Mavericks for nothing. While the deal may look bad from a value proposition, the Kings clearly prioritized getting off Holmes and the remaining two years, $26.7 million left on his deal.

This trade also accomplished another thing: they’re now a cap space team. They project to have $33-36 million in cap space, which should be more than enough to acquire an impact player or two while potentially renegotiating and extending the expiring contract of Domantas Sabonis.

Mock trade has Nets trading Dorian Finney-Smith for OG Anunoby

Here is the breakdown of a mock trade between the Brooklyn Nets and the Toronto Raptors proposed by James Piercey of the NBA Analysis Network.

The Brooklyn Nets have a lot to consider this offseason as they have to make decisions on a lot of different things starting with the 2023 NBA Draft that is less than two weeks away. Until then, it’s safe to say that it is officially mock trade for the NBA space.

With the Nets trying to figure out the best way to move forward after the trades of Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, it’s interesting to contemplate the available options. For one, Brooklyn could enter a full rebuild, but the Houston Rockets essentially own the Nets’ draft for the next few seasons.

Since it seems that rebuilding is an unlikely option, Brooklyn may be poised to do what it can to try to be competitive at this moment. The fastest way to do that is to go star-chasing and James Piercey of the NBA Analysis Network has a player that the Nets could go after in a trade:

New extension limits? How they would affect the league

We got an update on Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) talks this week and the first bit of potential changes. According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, significant progress has been made in recent weeks on key issues between the NBA and the …

We got an update on Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) talks this week and the first bit of potential changes. According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, significant progress has been made in recent weeks on key issues between the NBA and the Players Union (NBPA), and there’s hope that a deal is within grasp. The current deadline to get a deal done is March 31, and the NBPA has informed the league they intend to complete a deal by then.

Charania also provided some notes on potential changes to the CBA that could come. One would be altering the lower luxury tax tiers to make it more viable for teams to get into the tax. They’re also discussing lowering the NBA draft age eligibility to 18 years old, and implementing cap smoothing to prevent massive cap spikes like in 2016.

The other change that is being discussed is modifying the current contract extension limits. Per Charania, both sides are discussing increasing the maximum first-year salary in an extension from 120 percent to 140-150 percent. The extension rules were bound to be changed considering how much the salary cap has risen over the past seven years, but exactly how they could get changed was unknown until now.

Below is a breakdown of the current extension rules versus the newly proposed ones, and the ripple effects they can have on the league.

Ranking the 15 best players who surprisingly stayed put at the NBA trade deadline

Zach LaVine and Pascal Siakam are staying put. Who else doesn’t have to relocate?

The NBA’s trade deadline was one of the most exciting in recent memory, with multiple former MVP winners and several All-Stars moved.

But there were also quite a few players around the league who heard their name in trade rumors over the past few weeks but now return to the same team now that the deadline has passed.

While there were some big moves, some teams (e.g. Raptors and Bulls) were expected to blow it up but decided against it. There were whispers that some big-name players were headed to new homes, but only some actually have to relocate.

These were the 15 best players who were rumored to get traded but will instead stay put for at least the remainder of the season:

Trade rumor rankings: Fred VanVleet, Kevin Durant and more

HoopsHype ranks the 10 players who have appeared most often in trade rumors since yesterday, headlined by Fred VanVleet and Kevin Durant.

We’re a day away from the 2022-23 NBA trade deadline as we await to find out what the next domino to fall will be.

After the Kyrie Irving trade to the Dallas Mavericks, could the Brooklyn Nets be open to moving their other major superstar? Will the Toronto Raptors trade one of their star swingmen? Will we be taken by surprise by an unforeseen move?

Below, we rank the 10 players who have appeared most often in trade rumors over the previous 24 hours, as judged by appearances on our page. With so much action and so little time, let us get right into it.