On the surface, the Los Angeles Lakers shipped Steve Blake to the Golden State Warriors at the trade deadline for $3.5 million in luxury-tax relief. MarShon Brooks and Kent Bazemore came back as filler that would be gone in the summer.
He may indeed be out of work in the offseason, but Kent Bazemore's play as a Laker has likely made the job search a lot easier on himself. No other player included in a trade last month has made more of his change of scenery in the two weeks since the deadline passed.
To be fair, this year's trade deadline was long on rumors and short on impact transactions. Evan Turner was the biggest name to switch jerseys this year and he went from full-time starter in Philadelphia to a sixth man in Indiana.
Spencer Hawes probably replaced Anderson Varejao in Cleveland's starting lineup—at least until Varejao is fully healthy—but the University of Washington man is producing at roughly the same level as before the trade.
Steve Blake? To the bench. Ramon Sessions or Gary Neal? They swapped places without moving the needle much for either Milwaukee or Charlotte.
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