NBA Trade Deadline: Grading how all 30 teams performed at the deadline

New Orleans Pelicans

Key Moves:

• Acquired Jason Smith, Stanley Johnson and four future second-round picks from Bucks for Nikola Mirotic (per Adrian Wojnarowski).
• Traded Wesley Johnson for Markieff Morris (per Shams Charania).

Quite frankly, it was quite surprising to see the New Orleans Pelicans sell extremely low on Nikola Mirotic, but I suppose getting four second-round picks isn’t that terrible Also, Stanley Johnson is a good low-risk, high-reward move.

For the most part, this NBA Trade Deadline for the Pelicans revolved around Anthony Davis. In the end, they elected to keep him on the roster through the deadline and will now attempt him to move him at the NBA Draft or shortly after.

It’s going to be interesting to see if this pays off for the Pelicans in the long-run, because that Lakers offer was quite a load. They offered EVERYTHING to the Pelicans. Here’s to hoping that their risk pays off.

Grade: C