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Trade Week 3
Trade Week 4
Trade Week 5
Trade Week 6
Trade Week 7
This edition of NBA 2K’s “Play to Trade” Season is a little different. We’re going to combine both February trade days into one article because there aren’t many games and I wanted this complete by the start of the NBA regular season. The first day had 2 trade games and the 2nd is the All-Star game and I’m doing something drastic for that! Stay tuned.
First off, let’s recap February’s first trade day (February 3rd). Here are some overall storylines headed into the day:
- Phoenix is… not good. They have Lowry, Ayton, Booker, and they lost 7 in a row towards the end of January and find themselves as the 8 seed in the West. Behind….
- THE MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES!! Wolves winners of 8 of their last 10 and Brandon Ingram, of all players, has lit a spark under the Wolves! You’re welcome, Tom!
- Gordon Heyward got traded to the Heat… and was injured in their first game. Donovan Mitchell was traded to the Heat earlier… and got injured in his first game. Ouch.
- Brooklyn Nets are kind of sexy with J-Butts, D’Lo, Mike Conley, Jarrett Allen and Marvin Bagley
Here are the first day of Trade results:
OKC: 99 (26-26)
BOS: 115 (34-19)
I told ya, OKC. You were dead men walking after losing to New York on the last trade Sunday. The very first trade day the Thunder traded for De’Aaron Fox and had him with Russ & Paul George. Two are gone now. George remains.
TRADE: De’Aaron Fox to BOS for Brad Wanamaker
OKC STARTING 5: Dennis Schroder, Andre Roberson, Paul George, Jerami Grant, Nerlens Noel
BOS STARTING 5: Kyrie, Fox, Marcus Smart, Marcus Morris, Al Horford
LAC: 116 (24-30)
TOR: 121 (29-25)
I flipped back and forth on who I wanted to win here. Clipps could’ve won and take Marc Gasol to go with DeRozan and leave Toronto with a solid lineup still OR have Toronto win and elevate the Raptors to “Dayummm they’re pretty fricken good” status and trade for DeRozan. Well, as you can see Toronto won and dayummmmmmm they are pretty fricken good now. Welcome back, Demar!
TRADE: Demar DeRozan to TOR for Jodie Meeks
LAC STARTING 5: Pat Beverley, Lou Williams, Danilo Gallinari, Luc Mbah a Moute (in for injured Jamychal Green), Montrezl Harrell
TOR STARTING 5: Fred Vanvleet, DeRozan, Kawhi, Pascal Siakam, Marc Gasol
Ok so that was the first Trade Day this edition. We’ve got a special one coming up to close February out. Here are a few league notes since the above trades:
- Raptors won 6 in a row with DeRozan
- Thunder have won 4 in a row… sons a bithches
- Warriors lost 2 in a row
Since the All-Star game falls on the 2nd Trade day of February, we’re switching things up… it’s Team LeBron VS Team Giannis and I’m momentarily removing all untouchable tags. That means you can trade for any all-star. Here’s how it’s gonna work: the player with the most points on Team Giannis can trade for the player with the least amount of points on Team LeBron. So if Giannis has the most points, and LeBron has the least amount of points on his team then the Bucks could trade for LeBron (sploosh). And then vice versa with the highest scorer on Team LeBron and the lowest scorer on Team Giannis. Does that make sense!? I sure hope so, cuz I’m excited for this one!
Here are the teams:
Team LeBron: Russell Westbrook (PHI), Damian Lillard (POR), Kawhi Leonard (TOR), LeBron James (LAL), Nikola Jokic (DEN), Anthony Davis (NO), DeMar Derozan (TOR), Ben Simmons (PHI), Demarcus Cousins (GSW), Kevin Love (CLE), Marc Gasol (TOR), Chris Paul (DAL)
Team Giannis: Kyrie Irving (BOS), James Harden (HOU), Paul George (OKC), Giannis Antetokounmpo (MIL), Joel Embiid (PHI), Kevin Durant (GSW), Kart-Anthony Towns (MIN) Blake Griffin (DET), Kemba Walker (CHA), John Wall (WAS), Nikola Vucevic (ORL), Kyle Lowry (PHO)
So Toronto and Philly have the most entries (3). TOR has a solid chance with Kawhi starting and DeRozan off the bench. Philly has Russ & Embiid starting to have a pretty good chance as well. Two Warriors are in play with KD and Boogie. Luckily for us, they’re coming off the bench and probably don’t have a great chance to get enough playing time to be the highest scorer.. but who knows. And then ya have Giannis, LeBron, Kyrie, Harden and George all starting as their lone reps for their team.
Sooooo let’s do this!!! I’m even playing a full 12 minutes to have some SERIOUS points.
HERE ARE THE RESULTS:
Team Giannis
- Giannis & Milwaukee-26
- Harden & Houston-21
- KD & GSW-16
- Kyrie & Boston-15, Embiid & PHI-15
- KAT & Minnesota-11
- George & OKC-6, Griffin & DET-6, Wall & WAS-6
- Kemba & CHA-3
- Vucevic & Orlando-2
- Lowry & Phoenix-0
Team LeBron
- Kawhi & Toronto-24
- LeBron & LA-21
- Lillard & Portland-17
- Jokic & Denver-13
- AD & Nola-12
- K-Love & Cleveland-8
- Russ & PHI-7
- DeRozan & Toronto-6
- Boogie & GSW-6
- Simmons & Phi-2
- Gasol&TOR, CP3&DAL-0
Kawhi drilled a 3 with a minute to go to surpass LeBron and win the Team LeBron race. So that means Kawhi and Toronto will trade for Kyle Lowry from Phoenix! Lowry didn’t score (0-4) and Lowry returns home to Toronto. So now Toronto traded for DeRozan and now Lowry in Febuary alone!
On the other side, Giannis held off a late surge from Harden to take the scoring title. There were two players on Team LeBron that finished with 0PTS. Marc Gasol of Toronto and CP3 of Dallas. I flipped a coin for who Milwaukee would trade for and CP3 was selected. Milwaukee already swiped Doncic from Dallas and now they just took CP3 who has been traded from HOU to LAC to DAL and now to MIL. Gasol stays on Toronto so the Raptors starting 5 is Lowry, DeRozan, Kawhi, Siakam, Gasol… whoa.
For Phoenix, it’s not the end of the world. They traded for Tony Parker earlier in the season and pick up Jeremy Lin in exchange for Lowry.
Milwaukee has decisions to make. They have Bledsoe (avg 20PPG), CP3, Doncic, Brogdon, Giannis, Middleton, Mirotic. A lot of different pieces 1-4.
We’ve only got about a month and a half left in the regular season so here are the standings and the starting 5’s:
West
- Golden State (45-12)-Curry, Klay, KD, Kuzma, Boogie
- Denver (34-23)-IT, Gary Harris, Will Barton, Jokic
- Houston (34-23)-TJ McConnel, Harden, Eric Gordon, Kenneth Faried, Clint Capela
- New Orleans (32-27)- Jeremy Lamb, Jrue Holiday, Stanley Johnson, Julius Randle, AD
- Oklahoma City (30-27)-Dennis Schroder, Andre Roberson, Paul George, Markieff Morris, Nerlens Noel
- Utah (30-27)- Ricky Rubio, Rodney McGruder, Joe Ingles, Jae Crowder, Gobert
- Phoenix (30-29) Tony Parker, Devin Booker, TJ Warren, Jaren Jackson, DeAndre Ayton
- Portland (29-28) Lillard, McCollum, Jake Layman, Derrick Favors, Enes Kanter
- Lakers (29-28) Lonzo, DWade, LeBron, Jordan Bell, Mike Muscala
- Minnesota (28-29) Teague, Josh Okogie, Brandon Ingram, Dario Saric, KAT
- Clippers (27-32) Pat Beverley, Lou Williams, Danilo Gallinari, Luc Mbah a Moute, Montrezl Harrell
OTHER NOTABLE PLAYERS NOT ON PLAYOFF CONTENDING TEAMS: Aldridge, DeAndre Jordan, Kristaps, Jonas Valanciunas, Buddy Hield
East
- Boston (37-21) Kyrie, De’Aaron Fox Marcus Smart, Marcus Morris, Horford,
- Indiana (36-22) Darren Collison, Oladipo, Bojan Bogdanovic, Thad Young, Myles Turner
- Washington (35-23) Wall, Beal, Ariza, Jabari Parker, Steven Adams
- Philly (35-23) Russ, JJ Redick, Jayson Tatum, Simmons, Embiid
- Toronto (34-25) Lowry, DeRozan, Kawhi, Siakam, Gasol
- Milwaukee (32-25) CP3, Bledsoe, Doncic, Giannis, Cauley-Stein
- Brooklyn (32-27) Conley, D’Lo, J-Butts, Marvin Bagley, Jarrett Allen
- Orlando (32-27) Dennis Smith Jr., Evan Fournier, Jonathan Isaac, Mo Bamba, Vucevic
- Detroit (30-26) Tomas Satoransky, Langston Galloway, Glenn Robinson III, Blake Griffin, Andre Drummond
- Charlotte (29-28) Kemba, Malik Monk, Nic Batum, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Cody Zeller
- Miami (27-29) Goran Dragic, Dion Waiters, Gordon Hayward, James Johnson, Whiteside
- Atlanta (27-31) Trae Young, Kent Bazemore, Josh Richardson, Aaron Gordon, John Collins
OTHER NOTABLE PLAYERS NOT ON PLAYOFF CONTENDING TEAMS: K-Love, Zach Lavine,
We’re in a different universe because the East is better than the West… I mean minus Golden State they are.
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