The Internet Went Bonkers over the Explosion of NBA Trade Deadline Moves
NBA fans and reporters across the country are collapsed in a heap right now.
Their hair is frazzled, clothes wrinkled. Some smoke cigarettes and stare into the middle distance. All are struggling to metabolize the flurry of madness that just occurred as the NBA trade deadline came and went Thursday afternoon.
Absolute mayhem broke out in the minutes before the league's 3 p.m. ET cutoff for trades. The Miami Heat made a sweeping, multi trade to grab Goran Dragic, the New York moved Pablo Prigioni to Houston and the Philadelphia are now on cinder blocks, with JaVale McGee as a hood ornament.
These and many more trades happened as teams across the league rode the razor's edge of the deadline. In the final minutes, news of each transaction dropped one after the other, to the point where even seasoned pros and insiders were losing their minds trying to keep up.
The following is a smattering of reaction from the wildly paced trading that rippled over the nation as teams scrambled to seal deals.
Let's start with Yahoo NBA insider/league telegraph operator Adrian Wojnarowski—the most leathery of cowboys when it comes to these trading rodeos. After breathlessly tweeting a slew of different transaction details in the span of two minutes, even Woj had to marvel at it all.
He wasn't the only one who needed a moment to take it all in. Everyone with a passing interest in basketball was losing their mind.
Philadelphia center/part-time lion slayer Joel Embiid frantically tweeted for assistance as the team traded away his teammates.
Others just kicked back and enjoyed the carnival atmosphere.
Some people were, naturally, concerned for their own trade status.
Yep, it was one of those trade deadline flurries—the kind where even fans and keyboard jockeys start checking texts to make they haven't been traded to another office for a Keurig and half-priced at Sizzler.
Just feel your extremities, scan your email and check under your car windshield. You may have been traded. You probably were.
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