An Anthony Davis trade is more likely to happen after the season is over as opposed to at the deadline.
PER Marc Stein:
“It has not been definitively decided that Anthony Davis has played his last game for the Pelicans, according to one source close to the situation,” Stein reported. “But the source said it is a scenario under consideration in the event New Orleans does not move Davis before next Thursday’s deadline.”
“If no trade materializes between now and the Feb. 7 buzzer, with the playoffs essentially out of reach, New Orleans has much more incentive to keep Anthony Davis shelved in the name of protecting its prized trade asset rather than playing him,” Stein wrote. “As does Davis himself …”
The drama surrounding Anthony Davis will last much longer than after the deadline.