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The 2018 NBA trade deadline came and went on Thursday, with the Cleveland Cavaliers completely overhauling their rotation, several former lottery picks getting a change of scenery, and a few other smaller-scale deals joining the bigger-ticket business done well before Thursday’s deadline. For teams that didn’t get any business done, though — or who didn’t get everything they’d hoped for — the focus now shifts to the NBA buyout market. If you’re a veteran player on a going-nowhere team with hopes of playing postseason basketball, you want your agent doing everything he can to come to terms with your current employer that get you out of your contract, onto the waiver wire and then, hopefully, into the loving arms of a playoff hopeful before the March 1 deadline for postseason eligibility.
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