One crazy trade every NBA team should make

25. Miami Heat

I feel like I should feel something about Hassan Whiteside. Like, there should be some part of me that triggers a thought, or a feeling, or an emotion when I hear Hassan Whiteside’s name. There should be prompt. That doesn’t happen don’t though.

Here are some hot hot Heat questions about Hassan that one could potentially get real invested in should they choose to:

• Is Hassan Whiteside’s defense good or stat-paddy?
• Is he being paid too much?
• Did the Heat prioritize him over Dwyane Wade?
• If they did, should they have?
• If they should have, why is the world such a cold place?
• Can one expect much development from here on out given his age vs. the amount of time he’s spent in the league?

I imagine these things have been discussed, and I imagine they’ve been discussed quite a bit, but I’ve never really cared to find out. I’ll just assume everyone finds him as boring as I do, and they want him to go away.

You know what wasn’t boring earlier this year? Yi Jianlian. Okay, that was pretty boring too, but at least it was a different kind of boring. Hassan Whiteside got to come back from China to reignite his NBA career. He did that. He succeeded. That story is over now.

Now it’s Yi’s turn to tell that same story. There are a few minor differences in his case, I suppose, but whatever. I want that fun again. We all do. Odds are that things will work out exactly as well.

Hassan Whiteside to Guangdong for Yi Jianlian