The Existential Meaning of Last Trade Deadline

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.

Foreseeing the NBA Trade Deadline

The NBA trade deadline is 15 days away. I should be bouncing off the walls about this. The league-wide roster overhaul, the heated jockeying for playoffs X factors, the strategic long-term planning, these things get my nerd brain going. The 2014 NBA trade deadline cannot, in any possible way, be worse than last year. Three moves in two days, J.J Redick being the center of attention, journalists turning to the Dexter Pittman trade for column fodder, it can't possibly sink any lower. Yet the NBA trade deadline will be a non-event again, this year.

It's just the way things are now. The latest CBA makes it ungodly hard to organize a blockbuster trade. The salary cap makes superstar contracts binding and is influencing an athlete's worth like never before. So I'm expecting a lot of action this yet, yet it'll probably be as exciting as Saturday afternoon in an accounting convention. The NBA trade deadline will be a non-event this year, or rather, it will find a way to become a non-event, where trades will make sense at the bank and not on the court. Let me borrow Clairvoyant Bill's hat has for a second and predict you what the 2014 NBA trade deadline will be like.