Amongst all the Daytona 500 odds and NBA betting odds for the All-Star Game I’ve been going through ahead of this weekend, the upcoming trade deadline almost slipped my mind. The first big trade has gone down, and it’s reported that the Jermaine O’Neal experiment in Toronto is over. O’Neal, along with Jamario Moon, are being shipped to Miami for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks in a long-rumored move. There is also a rumor of a conditional draft Northbet.com pick, and it had better be a second-round pick, because it’s an awful draft year, because Banks is due betwewen $4.2-4.8 million for the next three years. Still, it clears a ton of cap space for the Raptors in the 2010 Sweepstakes, and now Raptors fans won’t be subjected to having JO, Chris Bosh, and Andrea Bargnani on the floor at the same time.
