How not getting traded helped Nic Claxton get his groove back

AP

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As final month’s commerce deadline drew nearer by the day, so, too, did Nic Claxton’s angst. He’d heard all of the speak, and the speak was he was getting dealt.

And when the Nets acquired former All-Star heart Andre Drummond to play the identical place, Claxton assumed his Brooklyn days have been completed.

Seems he couldn’t have been extra incorrect. And within the weeks since these rumors dissipated, the younger heart has turned his season round. In moving into the minutes left by the absence of injured veteran LaMarcus Aldridge, Claxton has gotten again to the extent of basketball he’d teased at instances a 12 months in the past, taking part in the sort of sport that had different groups so enthusiastic about him within the first place.