Chicago has been working for more than a year to find a new house in Zack Lavine. De’aaron Fox came to the trade market last week.
Both are moving in the second largest NBA hit transaction in a few days. This is a trading of three teams that combine Fox and Victor Wenbanahara to send Lavain to Sacramento. Trade works for almost everyone involved. We had to look at the losers so hard, but we did not lose much.
Defeat this transaction, who won and who lost? It starts with the details of the transaction itself:
Spurs is Jordan McLaflin, Dearon Fox
King’s Receipt: Zack Rabine, Sidi Shizsoco, 3rd round pick (2025 Charlotte (Top 14 Protection), 2026 and 2027), San Antonio in 2027, 2031 State), 3 seconds -round pick.
Beau reception: Zack Collins, Tre Jones, Kevin Harter, and they get the first round of 2025 from San Antonio.
Winner: De’aaron Fox
It was one of the worst secrets in the NBA that De’aaron Fox arrived at San Antonio and became a point guard to sound next to Victor Wembanyama. Because it tends to occur in the NBA, the star player wants and the star player.
Furthermore, if you complete this transaction before the deadline, the man will be paid. Fox (and his agent, Rich Paul) hoped that the transaction would be done before the deadline on February 6th, so he could sign the maximum expansion to stay in San Antonio this summer. I did it. If he signed this summer, his maximum extension was $ 296 million for five years. If he signed another team as a free agent, the maximum was $ 219 million in four years. (Spurs technically, it has a cap space for re -negotiating salaries and expanding the number, but by doing so, the flexibility of the team can add other players. )
Fox wins because he got what he wanted. Get a reward for a team that should compete within a few seasons.
Winner: Sun Antonios Purse
Spurs lands a future all -star -level point guard, does it without sacrificing Steven Castle, Devinvassel, and Keldungunson Son, and has enough draft picks to make more bold movements in the future. did. It is a victory.
The discussion of the Spurs as a winner is that they may have been waiting, and perhaps they have found a better second star in the off -season or one year, but this team did not give up with this contract. I’m not in a position to wait. Just like the NFL team of a wonderful young quarterback (for example, Jadendaniels and Washington), the fifth year of the fifth year of the fifth year, the fifth year of the fifth year, the fifth year of the fifth year, the fifth year is the fifth year. It is essential to win. It will be 30 % of the upper limit of salary, making it much more difficult to bring high -quality players around him.
Fox/Wembanyama’s pick and roll should be devastating. Regardless of whether Wenbee jumps out to the arc or a rim violently, Fox’s explosive first step sets up a pass game with underestimated Wenby. Fox is also a former clutch player of the year, who prospered at the moment of bib, and it would never hurt that the team had more clutch men.
The fit between Fox and Chris Paul may be a little small this season and may be clunky, but the fox pickup was not this season, long -term.
Spurs is not completed -it requires much more shooting around Fox and Wenbee -but this is a considerable upgrade.
Winner: Victor Wenbaniama
Wenban Yama is now a winner because it has acquired the future point guard.
But that’s not the real reason he’s a winner. More importantly, this trade has stopped trying to build a winning team around him and slowly trying to jump in with both feet. It may not be a problem this season (the twelfth seeded Spurs is sitting two games from the western final play installation), but this summer and next season are heading. It is important. Find San Antonio in the future (and as described above, they still have assets to trade).
Loser: Chris Paul
The CP3 is not actually a large loser here, but you will see that the rotation Fox will decrease a few minutes. Paul is probably probably San Antonio’s one -year player (unless he accepts the bench’s role and decides to maintain him for his veterans).
It’s interesting to see whether Mitch Johnson is trying to play Paul and Fox together, which will be a very small backcoat, but will also show some issues in opposition.
Winner: Sacramento Kings
Sacramento would have re -signed Fox and would be pleased to continue his current path, but this transaction moved one step back from Fox. Lavine satisfies the role of FOX’s Playmaker and adds potential draft picks that can be used in future transactions (or only used for young players drafts).
Lavine -In the middle of his career’s best season -fox has a very similar score and impact. Lavaine is a more efficient scorer, Fox is a better defender, but in swaps, Kings is in a position to keep the post -season spots while adding draft picks that are useful for future movements. 。
And the league’s sources say to NBC Sports, as they need to move in the future and plan to plan. The king has two open lists, has a space of about $ 11 million under a luxurious tax system, and has some new draft picks, and requires a depth of the center and wings. Expect more movements before the deadline.
Mid: Chicago Bulls
Some of the reasons for the Bulls had more than a year to exchange Zack Lavine because the team wanted Chicago to attach the first -round draft pick to the contract (for two years. After 95 million dollar Ravin left his contract).
What is positive for Chicago is that they didn’t have to give up on this transaction. This season’s powerful play (24 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 4.5 assist the game, and is trying to work in Chicago for the scoring of Kings’s Fox, the best career of 63.7, the best career. The Bulls leaned on the rebuilding (reading: tanking), controlling the first round of 2025.
Considering that Lavain is a multiple aggressive player, it can be claimed that the Bulls did not return much. That said, it was probably the best they could do. Chicago is a solid result, as it jumps in with both feet by reconstruction. Finally. The decision here is like a “middle” for the Bulls with this transaction alone, but if this is combined with the Nikola Vesevich and Ronzo balls for the next few days, it will be a big victory at the deadline of the Chicago transaction. I have sex.
