The NBA trade deadline is tomorrow, meaning many of the league’s best players are wondering whether they’ll need to change addresses by week’s end. It can be a pretty stressful situation. But they at least have a greater level of certainty about what they’ll be doing next week—playing the sport they’re paid to play—than MLB players, who are stuck in limbo during the lockout.
Free agents left unsigned before MLB locked out the players on Dec. 2 have no idea where they’ll be playing next season, or when the season will even start.