{"id":65595,"date":"2026-02-06T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/nba-trade-deadline-grading-the-winners-wizards-and-losers-pelicans\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:58:49","slug":"nba-trade-deadline-grading-the-winners-wizards-and-losers-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/nba-trade-deadline-grading-the-winners-wizards-and-losers-pelicans\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA trade deadline: grading the winners (Wizards) and losers (Pelicans)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of breakup talk, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks stayed together. The Knicks and Timberwolves, meanwhile, made smart additions<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to match the absolute insanity that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/07\/nba-trade-deadline-analysis\">the 2024-25 NBA trade deadline<\/a>, and to the majority of the league\u2019s credit, teams didn\u2019t really try. But there was still some notable movement ahead of Thursday\u2019s 3pm EST deadline \u2013 to varying degrees of success. Let\u2019s do the early assessment of who came out on top, and who left us scratching our heads.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/06\/nba-trade-deadline-winners-losers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of breakup talk, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks stayed together. The Knicks and Timberwolves, meanwhile, made smart additions It\u2019s hard to match the absolute insanity that was the 2024-25 NBA trade deadline, and to the majority of the league\u2019s credit, teams didn\u2019t really try. But there was still some notable movement ahead of &#8230; <a title=\"NBA trade deadline: grading the winners (Wizards) and losers (Pelicans)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/nba-trade-deadline-grading-the-winners-wizards-and-losers-pelicans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA trade deadline: grading the winners (Wizards) and losers (Pelicans)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}