Redick will help Bucks; Celtics shouldn’t start Crawford

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Some would say that this year’s trade deadline was all about who didn’t get traded.

Josh Smith will ride out the season eating conch salad in Atlanta. Boston’s legends will try extract one more extended playoff run, and Utah elected not to mess with its team on a winning streak despite a young core and two valuable assets on expiring contracts.

But we’re here to talk about a select quartet among the 27 players dealt on Wednesday or Thursday from a statistical standpoint, led by new Milwaukee Buck J.J. Redick.

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Sheridan: Big Trade Deadline Winners are Milwaukee Bucks, Mark Cuban and Boston Celtics

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Playoff basketball will return to the Bradley Center in Milwaukee for the first time since 2010.

And Mark Cuban can ring Dwight Howard’s doorbell at 9 p.m. Pacific Time on June 30.

If there were two definitive things you could surmise from this year’s trade deadline deals, those were the biggest two.

If you want to make it a threesome, the Celtics did pretty well for themselves, too, by getting Jordan Crawford as the latest backcourt replacement for Rajon Rondo/Leandro Barbosa.

Can you say “I don’t wan’t to finish eighth in the East?”

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Sheridan: Five Potential Trades That Make Sense

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We are 48 hours away from the NBA trade deadline. Deals are being discussed, deals are going to happen, and deals are going to fall through.

Happens every year.

What makes this year different is the new collective bargaining agreement, with harsher luxury tax penalties on the horizon beginning with the 2013-14 season. The luxury tax line is going to act as a hard cap for all but the wealthiest owners – like guys who own gold mines in Siberia.

So expect to hear a lot of financial gobbledygook on Thursday night and Friday morning as NBA executives explain the moves they made.

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Tweet of the Day: Kevin Love

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All-Star Weekend is here!

Friday night kicks things off with the All-Star Celebrity Game.

Minnesota Timberwolves star forward Kevin Love may be injured, but he’s on the scene at All-Star weekend. He kept tabs on all of the the pre-game action by giving a play-by-play of participants’ fashion.

Podcast: Brian Geltzeiler on WFAN in New York with John Jastrzemski

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Brian Geltzeiler was on WFAN in New York with John Jastrzemski. They discussed the Heat, Lebron, the Thunder, the Knicks and the Nets.