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NBA Trade Deadline 2020: The 30-team mega-deal that solves nothing and makes everyone mad

By Ian Levy

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 13: Kevin Love #0 of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Collin Sexton #2 high five during the game against the Los Angeles Lakers on January 13, 2020 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2020 NBAE (Photo by Chris Elise/NBAE via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 13: Kevin Love #0 of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Collin Sexton #2 high five during the game against the Los Angeles Lakers on January 13, 2020 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2020 NBAE (Photo by Chris Elise/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – JANUARY 20: Aaron Gordon #00 of the Orlando Magic watches on before their game against the Charlotte Hornets at Spectrum Center on January 20, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – JANUARY 20: Aaron Gordon #00 of the Orlando Magic watches on before their game against the Charlotte Hornets at Spectrum Center on January 20, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /

San Antonio Spurs

Sending out: LaMarcus Aldridge (CLE), Trey Lyles (WAS), 2020 first-round pick (DET)

Bringing in: Jonas Valanciunas (MEM), Aaron Gordon (ORL)

It feels reductive to constantly assume that the Spurs can take any player with any amount of talent in any sort of unique package and figure out how to help them be the best version of themselves. And, yet, somehow, it seems more plausible than any of the other scenarios. So, here we imagine lump-of-clay Aaron Gordon getting the Spurs treatment — maybe learning how to shoot, maybe just getting transformed into the destructive defensive dynamo we all imagined him as.

There is still DeMar DeRozan to be reconciled with, and two more years of Valanciunas at nearly $30 million. But this trade helps shuffle the Spurs towards a new era with a 25-and-under core of Gordon, Derrick White, Dejounte Murray, Jakob Poeltl and Lonnie Walker. That group alone makes for an interesting starting lineup, along with whatever other gems this organization unearths along the way.

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