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

Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo were traded to the Timberwolves in the Karl-Anthony Towns deal. What are scouts and execs around the league saying about their fits with new teams? David Berding/Getty Images

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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