The weekend's best trade chatter

The NBA trade deadline is Thursday at 3 PM ET. These are the standout trade rumbles heading into the last few days of this season's trade season

At the moment I pushed Substack’s orange PUBLISH key this morning, there were 75-ish hours left until the NBA trade deadline.

And these were most notable rumbles in my notebook from the league’s personnel grapevine when I hit that button:

🏀 It was probably always going to end up this way with Ben Simmons. For all the considerable and reliable momentum th…