Every year there are NBA players that are whisked away just before games tip off because of a trade — or even are traded during the course of a game they are playing in. Coaches are asked questions they know they can’t answer,

We may have just lived through the most active trade deadline in NBA history, but it's not as though everyone participated equally. Four teams didn't make a single trade: the Nuggets, Magic, Trail Blazers and Timberwolves,

The 3 p.m. ET deadline was a moment in time, but this 2025 version qualified as a “trade week” at least, almost as a “trade season” if we look back to Dec. 15 when Thomas Bryant moved from Miami to Indiana and Dennis Schröder went from Brooklyn to Golden State.

During the week leading up to the NBA’s trade deadline the league just dives as deeply as possible into transactional chaos. It can be a bit funny in the moment, sure. Seeing the Suns players react to the Luka trade, for example, doesn’t seem like a particularly meaningful or harmful moment.

NBA trade deadline is behind us. What should we expect in the offseason and which star is on the move next? Our NBA insiders break it down.

The 2025 NBA trade deadline started in earnest with the trade bombshell that seemed so ludicrous, fans and players alike thought someone was playing a prank: Luka Dončić being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three-team deal that also included Anthony Davis going to the Dallas Mavericks.

The Washington Wizards continue to remain busy as the trade deadline nears, adding veteran guard Reggie Jackson from the Philadelphia 76ers. In the swap, the Sixers send Jackson and a 2026 future first-round pick to Washington for four second-round picks and reserve swingman Jared Butler.

What happened with Bradley Beal and Luka Dončić at the NBA trade deadline could make both players and teams rethink how to approach no-trade clauses moving forward.