Trade deadline season is unlike any stretch of the NBA calendar. The NBA draft, at minimum, brings changes in the work force and has the wheel-greasing benefit of teams flipping draft rights outside the salary cap. Free agency positions a pool of wanted players opposite teams desperate to spend. All that’s to be determined is who lands where and for how much. The deadline has that same broad appeal—every franchise will be participating in some capacity, if only to hear out minor offers—but guarantees only commotion. Rumors fly, the trade machine whirs, and fans clamor for deals that won’t likely happen.
NBA Trade Deadline: The Six Biggest Questions
