From the ongoing Jimmy Butler trade saga to the Brooklyn Nets’ search for draft picks, the rapidly approaching NBA trade deadline is creating intrigue and uncertainty across the league.
Here, we’ll highlight one question facing each of the Association’s 30 teams. Wherever possible, we’ll focus on a trade-related issue, because…well, ’tis the season. And really, even the concerns that aren’t transaction-specific have close ties to the upcoming deadline. In many cases, non-trade-related issues—positional gluts, a shortage of shooting, iffy contract-extension calls—could be addressed by swinging a deal.
After all, for the next month or so, everything in the NBA discourse comes back to the trade market.
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