Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe react to the blockbuster deal that sent star Kevin Durant west.Įven multi-team, multi-player deals did not involve the same layers of bureaucracy back then. That is the current environment and I don’t see it changing with owners dropping $4 billion a pop for a franchise." "And you called the owner because he didn’t keep an office at the practice facility or arena. There were no leaks to the media to see how the deal would be received by the fan blogs and message boards. "There were no minority owners, investors, board members, alternate governors, business division presidents, chairpersons, owner’s sons, son-in-laws or former players acting as celebrity ‘owners’ involved. Two, you’d call the owner and recommend doing said deal. "One, you’d negotiate and agree on the terms of the deal right up to the point where owner approval was necessary. "It used to be pretty simple," said another former GM who has worked for multiple organizations over the past 20 years. So any decision to move an element as precious as one of the 15 members of the playing roster gets run by representatives from every faction within the organization. The second action: NBA teams are now billion-dollar corporations. With Thursday’s trade deadline bearing down on us – bringing huge, complex trades, from Kevin Durant to Kyrie Irving to D'Angelo Russell – FOX Sports spoke to multiple executives about how the process has changed and everything that goes into deal-making in the modern NBA. These days, trades are complicated business. "I called my owner and said, ‘Do you want to do the deal?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, do it.’ And that was it."īut that was then. We talked," said Paxson, now a consultant for the Chicago Bulls who spent 15 years between the front offices of the Portland Trail Blazers and Cavs, serving as the latter’s GM from 1999-2005. "The hockey guy that was Orlando’s GM at the time reached out to me. One of his early trades - sending power forward Andrew DeClercq to the Orlando Magic for Matt Harpring in 2000 - took one phone call, two if you count dialing then- Cleveland Cavaliers owner Gordon Gund for approval. The deal ultimately paved the way for the Celtics to get Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum, two All-Stars still with the team today.Jim Paxson remembers how simple it used to be to make trades in the NBA. Boston made out like bandits for the draft compensation they received, which crippled the Nets for years. Pierce, Garnett, and Terry were past their primes and could not help the star-studded Nets get past the second round in back-to-back years. How the trade looks now: One of the most infamous trades in NBA history, the Nets went all-in to land star veterans around their core of Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, and Brook Lopez. White, 2017 first-round pick swap (Kyle Kuzma), 2017 second-round pick (Aleksandar Vezenkov)Ĭeltics received: Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, Kris Joseph, Keith Bogans, 2014 first-round pick (James Young), 2016 first-round pick (Jaylen Brown), 2017 first-round pick (Markelle Fultz), 2018 first-round pick (Collin Sexton) Nets received: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Jason Terry, D.J. Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Jason Terry with the Nets in 2013. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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