2015 NBA Trades

New Orleans acquired 2016 second round pick (#39-David Michineau); 2017 second round pick (#34-Frank Mason) from Philadelphia 76ers for Ish Smith.

Memphis gained a modest hindsight edge over Miami Heat, receiving Mario Chalmers; James Ennis III for Beno Udrih; Jarnell Stokes.

Golden State finished with a modest edge. The Warriors acquired Jason Thompson; 76ers' option to swap 2016 first round picks (less favorable of Heat (protected top 10), Thunder (protected top 15) picks) with Warriors (not exercised) from Philadelphia 76ers for Gerald Wallace; 76ers' option to swap 2016 first round picks with Warriors (not exercised); cash considerations.

Boston acquired Zoran Dragic; 2020 second-round pick (#50 Skylar Mays); cash from Heat in exchange for 2019 conditional second-round pick (not exercised).

Boston acquired David Lee from Warriors in exchange for Gerald Wallace; Chris Babb.

Cleveland acquired 2 trade exceptions / cash considerations for Brendan Haywood, Mike Miller and 2 additional assets; the completed outcomes give the Cavaliers a modest realized-value edge.

Miami and Orlando Magic produced a stronger realized return for Magic in the 2015-07-27 exchange: 2016 second-round pick (protected top 55 in 2016, else extinguished) (not exercised) for Shabazz Napier; cash considerations.

Cleveland acquired 2019 second round pick (#41-Eric Paschall) for rights to Rakeem Christmas, producing a clear Cavaliers win on realized player, draft and roster value.

Denver received Nick Johnson; Kostas Papanikolaou; Pablo Prigioni; Joey Dorsey; and 2 additional assets from Houston Rockets, sending Ty Lawson; 2017 second-round pick (#43-Isaiah Hartenstein) in return.

Boston acquired Perry Jones III; 2019 second-round pick (#45 Isaiah Roby); cash from Thunder in exchange for 2018 second-round pick (#57 Kevin Hervey).

The Nets acquired Quincy Miller from Pistons in exchange for Steve Blake.

Orlando acquired 2020 second round pick (protected top 55) (not exercised) from Portland Trail Blazers for Maurice Harkless / Moe Harkless.

Indiana and Minnesota Timberwolves produced a stronger realized return for Wolves in the 2015-07-11 exchange.

Atlanta acquired Tiago Splitter from Spurs in exchange for rights to Giorgos Printezis; 2017 second round pick (protected top 55) (not exercised).

Dallas received Zaza Pachulia from Milwaukee Bucks and sent 2018 second-round pick (protected top 55) (not exercised) in return.

Detroit won the deal, acquiring Marcus Morris, Reggie Bullock, Danny Granger for 2020 second round pick (#35 – Xavier Tillman).

Indiana and Los Angeles Lakers produced broadly comparable realized value in the 2015-07-09 exchange.

Milwaukee Bucks received 2020 second round pick (protected top 55; modified in subsequent trade to protected top 45 in 2020, else unprotected in 2022) (#39-Elijah Hughes). Washington Wizards received Jared Dudley.

New York Knicks received Kyle O'Quinn; Magic's option to swap 2019 second round picks with Knicks (#47-Ignas Brazdeikis). Orlando Magic received Magic's option to swap 2019 second round picks with Knicks (#33-Carsen Edwards); cash considerations. New York ultimately received the stronger realized value.

Philadelphia's 2015 salary-absorption deal with Sacramento remains an overwhelming 76ers win. The Sixers took on Nik Stauskas, Jason Thompson and Carl Landry while receiving valuable swap rights and a future first; Sacramento received only the draft rights to Luka Mitrovic and Arturas Gudaitis and surrendered extraordinary control over future drafts.

Oklahoma City received rights to Tomislav Zubcic; trade exception and sent Luke Ridnour; cash. The counterpart finished with the modest hindsight edge.

The Nets acquired Steve Blake; rights to Rondae Hollis-Jefferson from Blazers in exchange for Mason Plumlee; rights to Pat Connaughton.

The Nets acquired rights to Juan Pablo Vaulet from Hornets in exchange for 2018 second-round pick (less favorable of Cavaliers, Nets) (#55, Arnoldas Kulboka); 2019 second-round pick (#46, Talen Horton-Tucker); cash considerations.

Charlotte acquired Luke Ridnour from Memphis Grizzlies for Matt Barnes.

Charlotte acquired Jeremy Lamb from Oklahoma City Thunder for Luke Ridnour; second round pick (protected #56-60 in 2016, unprotected in 2017) (2016 #53-Petr Cornelie).

Cleveland exchanged rights to Tyus Jones for rights to Cedi Osman, rights to Rakeem Christmas and 2019 second round pick (#40-Justin James), with a narrow realized-value edge to Wolves.

Los Angeles Clippers captured the stronger realized return in the 2015-06-25 transaction with New Orleans Pelicans, led by rights to Branden Dawson.

Memphis and Phoenix Suns produced broadly comparable realized value in the 2015-06-25 exchange: rights to Andrew Harrison for Jon Leuer.

Milwaukee acquired Greivis Vasquez for Norman Powell’s draft rights and the protected Clippers-origin 2017 first-round pick that became No. 23 O.G. Anunoby, then received only 23 games from Vasquez.

New York acquired rights to Willy Hernangomez from 76ers for 2020 second round pick (#36-Tyler Bey); 2021 second round pick (#50-Filip Petrusev); cash. The value leaned toward New York, but the partner still received meaningful return.

New York acquired rights to Jerian Grant from Hawks, Wizards for Tim Hardaway Jr. The partner captured substantially more realized value than New York.

On June 25, 2015, Utah Jazz acquired cash considerations from Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for rights to Daniel Diez / Dani Díez.

Charlotte acquired Nicolas Batum from Portland Trail Blazers for Gerald Henderson Jr.; Noah Vonleh.

The 2015-06-24 exchange produced broadly comparable realized value: Luke Ridnour for rights to Janis Timma.

Charlotte acquired Spencer Hawes; Matt Barnes from Los Angeles Clippers for Lance Stephenson.

Detroit acquired Ersan Ilyasova from Milwaukee Bucks for Caron Butler; Shawne Williams.

Brooklyn turned the final stage of Kevin Garnett's career into Thaddeus Young, a productive forward who helped immediately and later generated the draft rights to Caris LeVert. Minnesota achieved a meaningful homecoming and mentorship objective, but surrendered the younger, more valuable basketball asset.

Boston acquired Luigi Datome; Jonas Jerebko from Pistons in exchange for Tayshaun Prince.

Boston acquired Isaiah Thomas from Suns in exchange for Marcus Thornton (Terrell); 2016 first-round pick (#28 Skal Labissiere).

Denver received rights to Cenk Akyol; cash from Philadelphia 76ers, sending JaVale McGee; draft rights to Chu Chu Maduabum; first-round pick (protected top 18 in 2015 and top 15 in 2016-17, otherwise 2018 and 2019 second-round picks) (2016 #26-Furkan Korkmaz) in return.

Denver received Will Barton; Victor Claver; Thomas Robinson; 2016 first-round pick (protected top 14 in 2016-17, else 2018 second-round pick (less favorable of Blazers, Kings picks), 2019 second-round pick) (2016 #19-Malik Beasley) from Portland Trail Blazers, sending Arron Afflalo; Alonzo Gee in return.

Detroit acquired Reggie Jackson from Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder for D.J. Augustin; Kyle Singler; 2017 second round pick (#42 – Thomas Bryant); 2019 second round pick (#45 – Isaiah Roby).

The long-term value clearly favored Philadelphia 76ers: Houston received K.J. McDaniels from Philadelphia 76ers for Isaiah Canaan; 2015 second-round pick (less favorable of Nuggets, Timberwolves) (#37-Richaun Holmes).

The realized outcome leaned slightly toward New York Knicks: Houston received Pablo Prigioni from New York Knicks for Alexey Shved; 2017 second-round pick (#58-Ognjen Jaramaz); 2019 second-round pick (#55-Kyle Guy).

New Orleans acquired Ish Smith; rights to Latavious Williams; 2015 second round pick (if this pick is not conveyed from 76ers to Celtics from previous trade, protected top 55 in 2015) (not exercised); cash considerations from Oklahoma City Thunder for 2016 second round pick (less favorable of Kings (protected top 55), Pelicans picks) (not exercised).

On February 19, 2015, Sacramento Kings acquired Andre Miller from Washington Wizards in exchange for Ramon Sessions.

Atlanta decisively won the Adreian Payne trade. The Hawks turned a rookie who had barely entered their rotation into a protected first-round pick that eventually became Kevin Huerter, while Payne produced limited NBA value for Minnesota.

Charlotte acquired Mo Williams; Troy Daniels; cash from Minnesota Timberwolves for Gary Neal; 2019 second round pick (#43-Jaylen Nowell).

Boston received Chris Douglas-Roberts; Shavlik Randolph; 2017 second-round pick (#56 Jabari Bird) and sent Austin Rivers in a multi-team trade involving Clippers, Suns.

Boston acquired Nate Robinson from Nuggets in exchange for Jameer Nelson (Sr.).

Celtics Win. Boston’s return aged best because the first-round pick survived the immediate rebuild and became a lottery selection, while Prince and Rivers supplied short-term flexibility. That combination gave the Celtics both present-use pieces and a durable future asset. Memphis still received meaningful value. Green appeared in 98 games for the Grizzlies, averaged 12.6 points per game there, and was later moved for Lance Stephenson and another future first-round pick. New Orleans turned Austin Rivers into Pondexter and a second, a narrower but defensible reshuffling.

Boston acquired 2016 first-round pick (#35 Rade Zagorac); 2017 first-round pick (#37 Semi Ojeleye) from Suns in exchange for Brandan Wright.

Cleveland exchanged first round pick (protected top 18 in 2015, top 15 in 2016-17, else 2018 second round pick and 2019 second round pick) (2016 #26-Furkan Korkmaz) and first round pick in first draft 2 years after Grizzlies send first round pick to Timberwolves via Rockets (protected #1-5, #15-30 in 2015-16, top 5 in 2017-18, unprotected in 2019) (2017 #20-Harry Giles III) for Timofey Mozgov and 2015 second round pick (less favorable of Blazers, Bulls picks) (#53-Sir'Dominic Pointer), with the two sides generating broadly comparable realized value.

The long-term outcome favored Philadelphia 76ers; Los Angeles Clippers' return led by rights to Sergei Lishchuk did not match the value it surrendered.

Cleveland acquired J.R. Smith, Iman Shumpert and first round pick (from Thunder) (protected top 18 in 2015, top 15 in 2016-17, else 2018 second round pick and 2019 second round pick) (2016 #26-Furkan Korkmaz) for Dion Waiters, Lou Amundson and 2 additional assets, producing a clear Cavaliers win on realized player, draft and roster value.