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Good morning! Luka Dončić is very good at basketball.
I apologize for calling this NBA trade deadline a “dud-line” last week. Sort of. Yesterday was busy, with nearly 20 trades completed in the last 24 hours or so. Let’s process this by tier:
Going for it: New York and Milwaukee, the teams 6.5 games behind Boston in the East. The Knicks acquired Bojan Bogdanović and Alec Burks from last-place Detroit in exchange for Evan Fournier, Malachi...