{"id":574672,"date":"2026-02-01T07:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/574672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T07:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:48:13","slug":"charles-barkley-has-the-perfect-reaction-to-keon-ellis-deandre-hunter-cavs-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/574672\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley has the perfect reaction to Keon Ellis-De’Andre Hunter Cavs trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> and Sacramento Kings<\/a> officially kicked off the final week of the NBA trade deadline with a move that likely won’t shake either conference, but will have some long-term ramifications for both sides.<\/p>\n

The Cavs and Kings agreed to a trade late Saturday night that would send Dennis Schroder<\/a> and Keon Ellis to Cleveland and De’Andre Hunter<\/a> to Sacramento. The Chicago Bulls were also included in the deal, receiving Dario Saric in the process.<\/p>\n

On the surface, the trade doesn’t appear to be a needle-mover for either side, but both teams do benefit in what the trade allows them to do.<\/p>\n

Before getting into that, however, the Inside the NBA crew chimed in on the trade, with Charles Barkley expressing confusion at both teams for pulling off the trade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis trade makes zero sense for both teams,\u201d Barkley said after the Rockets defeated the Mavericks on ESPN. \u201cThe Cavs have a legitimate chance of winning the East, and you know I’m a big Hunter fan. I have no idea what Sacramento is doing. I mean they’re getting him, but I don’t know what they’re doing. But I’m disappointed in the Cavs because I’m a big DeAndre Hunter fan.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked by Kenny Smith why he wasn’t a fan of the move if he’s a fan of De’Andre Hunter, Barkley was blunt.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Sacramento] is not relevant!\u201d Barkley said. \u201cThey’re not relevant. We’re not living in the future. They’re not any good. Sacramento is not good, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Cleveland Cavaliers, whose second unit has somewhat struggled since the departure of Ty Jerome in free agency, the move gives the Cavs an additional ball-handler in Dennis Schroder while also allowing them to take on a solid, 3-and-D type of player in Keon Ellis.<\/p>\n

The move makes less sense for the Sacramento Kings from a guard perspective, given that Russell Westbrook is their only real point guard now. It does, however, give the Kings a bigger body and a three-level scorer in Hunter. The trade also afford the Kings a roster spot to sign two-way player Dylan Cardwell to a standard contract before he hits his games limit.<\/p>\n

While the move on its own doesn’t appear to be a big needle-mover, the Kings are likely to remain active on the trade market, with players like Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, and Domantas Sabonis said to be very much available.<\/p>\n

In 40 appearances for the Kings this season, Dennis Schroder averaged 12.8 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 5.3 assists per game, but struggled shooting just 40.8 percent from the field.<\/p>\n

Keon Ellis played in 43 games this season, averaging 5.6 points, 1.3 rebounds, and 1.1 steals in 17.6 minutes per game. Starting February 9, Ellis will be eligible to sign a three-year contract extension worth as much as $52 million, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers and Sacramento Kings officially kicked off the final week of the NBA trade deadline with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,193,1219,1024,3211,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-574672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","10":"tag-deandre-hunter","11":"tag-dennis-schroder","12":"tag-keon-ellis","13":"tag-kings","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sacramento","16":"tag-sacramento-kings","17":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115994277538540971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}