Editor's note (Feb. 5): The Philadelphia 76ers have traded for LA Clippers forward Tobias Harris, according to a report by ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. This piece originally featured multiple trades involving the Sixers.
Which big moves should happen before the 2019 NBA trade deadline?
Our experts give six deals that work, including 10 teams and multiple contenders.
Want more trades? Go here for eight big Anthony Davis deals, and here for our team-by-team guide to Thursday's deadline.
AD to the Spurs
Pelicans get: DeMar DeRozan, Dejounte Murray, Jakob Poeltl and two future first-round picks
Spurs get: Anthony Davis and Solomon Hill
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Jeremias Engelmann: This would be a rare midseason trade for San Antonio, but it would allow the Spurs to take the fruit of the Kawhi Leonard-Danny Green trade with Toronto, sweeten it with a young player and two draft picks and flip it for a 25-year-old superstar who should take well to Spurs culture.
We don't need to be reminded what San Antonio is capable of when one of the league's best big men, in his prime, plays in a Spurs jersey. Once the Spurs have an elite player -- which the defensively anemic DeRozan clearly isn't -- in addition to All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge, they can continue to work their usual draft and player-development magic to surround him with good-enough players to get back to contention.
New Orleans would get back a high-flying four-time All Star to fill the seats, one of the most promising young two-way guards, a young center and two future first-rounders. And in this iteration, the Spurs would take on Hill's contract, including almost $13 million in salary next season.
Conley to Utah
Grizzlies get: Ricky Rubio, Derrick Favors, Dante Exum and a 2019 first-round pick
Jazz get: Mike Conley, JaMychal Green and Garrett Temple
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Tim Bontemps: I first suggested a Conley-to-Utah deal last week on The Jump, and since then both teams have discussed such a trade taking place. This is a slightly larger deal than what has been talked about publicly, but making it would accomplish multiple objectives for both teams. For Memphis, it would deliver the combination of expiring deals (Favors/Rubio) and young assets (Exum/first) the Grizzlies are seeking to move Conley. It would also allow them to get some value back for Green and Temple, and move Memphis a few million away from the luxury-tax line.
For Utah, not only would Conley be the absolute perfect partner to Donovan Mitchell in the Jazz backcourt, but it also would give the Jazz a solid wing (Temple) and big (Green) to plug into the rotation. The Jazz could then also retain both in free agency if they chose this summer, giving them an additional benefit to making the deal now.
Kings spend before free agency
Kings get: Harrison Barnes
Mavericks get: Iman Shumpert, Kosta Koufos, Willie Cauley-Stein, a 2021 first-round pick (protected Nos. 1-5 in 2021, and No. 1 in 2022), 2019 second-round pick from Orlando, Cleveland or Houston (second-most favorable) and Detroit's 2020 second-round pick
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Kevin Arnovitz: The Kings, stacked with a talented guard rotation and promising big men, could use a big wing who can create and space. There's a short supply of this type of player, and Sacramento -- with no first-round draft pick and traditionally not a free-agent destination -- rarely has access. Enter Barnes, who might not have a long-term future in Dallas, but could in Sacramento. Barnes has a player option for $25.1 million for 2018-19, and the Kings would want an assurance that he either has plans to opt in or is amenable to signing a mutually favorable multiyear deal in Sacramento.
Dallas, which just shipped out its 2021 first-round pick to New York for Kristaps Porzingis, replenishes its coffers with Sacramento's 2021 first-rounder, along with a 2019 second-round pick that projects to be in the 30s, and a second-rounder in 2020. In addition to taking back two expiring contracts in Shumpert and Koufos, the Mavs also receive a young center in Cauley-Stein, who is a restricted free agent this summer.
Sixers swing much-needed depth
76ers get: Garrett Temple, JaMychal Green and Justin Holiday
Grizzlies get: Furkan Korkmaz, Wilson Chandler, Justin Patton, a 2019 second-round pick from Chicago and a 2019 second-round pick from Sacramento
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Kevin Pelton: As I pointed out on Twitter after Saturday's loss in Sacramento, the Sixers are in need of upgrading their depth more than any other contender. This pair of trades -- technically, two separate ones because Holiday's salary cannot be combined with other players, but in practice one big three-for-three deal -- would fill out the Philadelphia bench in a single move.
The 76ers would get three quality defenders with the shooting chops to complement stars Jimmy Butler, Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, giving coach Brett Brown a variety of options for filling out such lineups with either length on the perimeter or a stretch big man with more athleticism than current option Mike Muscala.
While Philadelphia might be inclined to wait for the buyout market after signing Marco Belinelli and Ersan Ilyasova after last year's deadline, barring backchannel commitments from potential free agents that's a risky game to play. And with 10 second-round picks coming over the next four years, the Sixers can comfortably send out a couple of solid ones in order to help Memphis make up the three second-round picks spent on deals for Holiday and Temple over the past year.
Thunder add a postseason piece
Thunder get: Anthony Tolliver
Timberwolves get: Patrick Patterson, a 2021 second-round pick and second-round swap rights in 2022
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Bobby Marks: A Tolliver-for-Patterson swap will garner little attention at the deadline, but here is why it makes sense for both sides and could possibly help the Thunder in the playoffs.
While considered a bargain in the summer of 2017, Patterson has been inconsistent in OKC. The stretch 4 is shooting a career-low 34.4 percent from 3, has scored in double figures just five times -- not to mention 13 games when he failed to score a point.
In Tolliver, Oklahoma City not only gets back an expiring contract but a more consistent stretch 4. Because the Timberwolves are taking back an extra year in salary (a $5.7 million team option), the Thunder will add a 2021 second-round pick and give Minnesota the right to swap seconds in 2022.
The 5 percent trade
Raptors get: Jimmy Butler and Markelle Fultz
76ers get: Jonas Valanciunas, Fred VanVleet and OG Anunoby
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Andrew Han: Rockets general manager Daryl Morey popularized the 5 percent theory: If a team has a 5 percent chance of winning the title, then all the focus should be on winning the title. Right now, FiveThirtyEight gives the Toronto Raptors a 10 percent chance to win the title -- second only to the Golden State Warriors.
Raptors president Masai Ujiri committed to change by ejecting Coach of the Year Dwane Casey and jettisoning star DeMar DeRozan for the uncertainty of 2014 Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard. But there's still one more move to make.
Philadelphia would get an opportunity to reset its own Butler deal by acquiring a developing wing in Anunoby plus two more capable rotation players to fix its depth issues. Plus, the Sixers no longer need to worry about overpaying Butler in the offseason.
The Raptors put everything on the line with a lineup that features three two-way players (the third being Danny Green), a top-seven point guard in Kyle Lowry and 2018-19 revelation Pascal Siakam. If Toronto's gamble pays off, the Raptors have a squad capable of matching Golden State's vaunted death lineup. Lose the bet and they start over from scratch.
But 5 percent of the time you win every time.