Some trades each year are clear winners and losers, but most are muddy, with a winner and lots of mid.
The DeMar DeRozan three-team trade revealed Saturday fits that description. Grade this trade to determine who did well and who got stuck.
Let's start with this three-team exchange.
By signing a three-year, $74 million contract with Sacramento, DeRozan is the big winner.
DeRozan will make nearly $50 million over the next two seasons aged 34 and 35, albeit the third year is only partially guaranteed.
Other teams pitched DeRozan, but even with LeBron James ready to take a big price cut, the Lakers could only give the $12.8 million mid-level exception, half of what he makes in this agreement.
DeRozan may have enjoyed the notion of returning to L.A., but he still appears in Kendrick LaMar videos, so it's fine.