NBA intel: Scouts and execs on early impacts of the KAT trade

NBA teams spent more than $2.6 billion in free agency and executed more than two dozen trades last summer in the annual transaction extravaganza.

But have any stars who changed teams had a clearly positive impact on their new team?

We asked NBA executives, scouts and other league insiders to weigh in on how the offseason’s biggest additions — from traded players such as Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges in New York and Julius Randle in Minnesota to free agent signings such as Paul George in Philadelphia and Klay Thompson in Dallas — are shaping up two months into the season.

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