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In a four-team trade, the defending champs parted ways with their former No. 2 pick to bolster their bench.
Amidst a flurry of trade-deadline deals on Thursday, one high-profile former top pick changed area codes: Golden State reportedly dealt James Wiseman, the No. 2 pick in the 2020 draft, to Detroit in a four-team deal that also sent Pistons forwards Saddiq Bey to Atlanta and Kevin Knox to the Blazers. The deal also reportedly sent five second-round picks from Atlanta to Golden State, which were rerouted to Portland to bring former Warriors guard Gary Payton II back to the Bay Area.

A total of 21 moves were made during the NBA’s trade season — here’s a recap of every one of them.

Golden State navigated the salary cap ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline.

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The NBA trade deadline brought about a flurry of activity—and a bevy of savings for the defending champs.
In a multi-team trade, the Warriors dealt former No. 2 overall pick James Wiseman to the Pistons and received guard Gary Payton II in return from the Trail Blazers, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

LeBron James and the Lakers got D’Angelo Russell and sent Russell Westbrook packing, but did the trade improve their title odds?

Kevin Durant to the Suns happened overnight, and things took off from there in a wild NBA trade deadline. And Yahoo Sports tracked it all.

Three other players are on the move as a result of the trade, which also included the Grizzlies.
Former No. 1 pick John Wall is headed back to the Rockets as the focal point of a three-team swap less than an hour before Thursday’s NBA trade deadline, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The Clippers are sending the veteran point guard back to his previous team. Wall played the 2020–21 season for Houston and sat out the following season while under contract to the Rockets as the team sought to trade him.

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FORTY FOUR second rounds picks got dealt .
If you needed a better example of how second round picks in the NBA Draft are basically fake currency, the trade deadline had you covered. Every other deal contained second round picks, often multiple of them — heck, FIVE second round picks were dealt for Jae Crowder.
This isn’t some galaxy brain level team building tactic and more the NBA’s currency for “I dunno… give us something?” These picks are basically crypto.

The PAC-12 is reportedly not close to landing a new media deal.
Commissioner George Kliavkoff has vowed that the PAC-12 will remain relevant moving forward once USC and UCLA leave for the Big Ten in 2024.
In order for that to happen, the conference must hammer out a new media deal prior to the 2024 football season.
There’s just one problem. Nobody seems interested in paying to air PAC-12 football games.
Is the PAC-12 in huge trouble? (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
The PAC-12 appears to be in huge trouble.

The San Francisco 49ers are arguably the most intriguing teams in all of the NFL given the situation they find themselves in. After back-to-back trips to the NFC Championship game, the question this offseason is the same as it was the previous offseason: who is going to play quarterback?
While the team has shown it has what it takes to make a deep postseason run with a cloud hovering over its quarterback room, it’s no secret that if San Francisco wants to win a Super Bowl it has to figure out the QB position.