The NBA is a rat race. Alternatively, it’s a dog-eat-dog world. Whichever animal-based analogy you prefer, it applies: The NBA can be a cold, unforgiving place. 

After all, one team’s misfortune is another team’s blessing. The simplest way to put it is that the NBA is a competition. Any outcome that harms one team inherently benefits all the others. 

With that context in mind – 29 teams have loved what they’ve been seeing from the Utah Jazz of late.

This group was recently seen as a title contender, and now, they’re falling apart at the seams. They already moved Rudy Gobert this summer, and if they move Donovan Mitchell, expect a fire sale to follow.

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When situations of this kind unfold, teams can take advantage with trades to add talent they otherwise may have not been able to add. 

Here’s a trade that has the New York Knicks capitalizing on that misfortune by landing Bojan Bogdanovic.