NBA Trade Rumors: 8 bold predictions for deadline day
D’Angelo Russell will be traded to the Knicks
This is my biggest prediction of this piece and one that I’m excited about. Even though I want to preface this by saying I have no intel, I just want this move to happen so bad I’m going to hope it into existence. Last trade deadline, the New York Knicks were big sellers in moving Kristaps Porzingis to the Mavs.
I don’t think we’re going to see back-to-back deadlines with them being sellers. Which is why I believe they’re going to take a swing for the fences type of move in the next couple of days. And the one target that makes at least some sense for the Knicks is D’Angelo Russell. He’s a big name, which the Knicks generally love, and is young enough where he could be the first building block for a franchise that is evolving.
It’s difficult to say what the Knicks would have to give up, but there’s no question that it would be costly. Still, I 100 percent want to see an unleashed D’Angelo Russell in New York.