NBA Power Rankings, Week 17: Every team's most impactful trade of the past five seasons
With the NBA trade deadline just days away (Thursday, 3 p.m. ET), teams around the league are looking to make deals. Sunday saw Caris LeVert traded from the Indiana Pacers to the Cleveland Cavaliers, as LeVert joins a team in Cleveland that has continued to defy expectations this season despite significant guard injuries.
Prior to the Cavs-Pacers deal, the LA Clippers acquired Robert Covington and Norman Powell from the Portland Trail Blazers in a five-player deal on Friday.
How could these moves impact the futures of the franchises?
In honor of the approaching deadline, our NBA Power Rankings are getting a trade twist, as our experts are looking back at the most impactful deals for each team over the past five seasons. Which trades have worked out and which teams are worse off after their major moves?
Note: Throughout the regular season, our panel (Tim Bontemps, Jamal Collier, Nick Friedell, Andrew Lopez, Tim MacMahon, Dave McMenamin and Ohm Youngmisuk) is ranking all 30 teams from top to bottom, taking stock of which teams are playing the best basketball now and which teams are looking most like title contenders.
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