Whether you were woken up in the middle of the night on Halloween Eve by the notification from Adrian Wojnarowski’s X account, or if you’ve somehow managed to escape the insufferable discourse surrounding it, you’ve probably heard the biggest news of the early season. The Philadelphia 76ers have (finally) traded former NBA all-star James Harden.

The NBA trade deadline is just a couple days away, and the league is … quiet. Unfortunately, like many past years, the trade market in the 2019-20 NBA season is especially uneventful. There have been...