The 2014 NBA trade deadline passed, six days ago, and once again it wasn't anything to go nuts about. It wasn't a snoozer like last year, but the range of transactions meaning went from ''cool'' to ''scraping drawer bottoms to save cap space''. Nonetheless, anything would've been better than last year's reenactment of Andy Warhol's SLEEP.
The CBA has ruined the trade deadline, at least for its duration. Its strict rules were meant to regulate the free agent market, but instead the market adapted and the trade market suffered. It became difficult to accept the contractual decisions of another GM and make them work on your team. Anyway, here are the highlights of the last trade deadline and their existential meaning. I won't go over every trade in this blog post, but if I don't mention, you shouldn't care about it.
