Best NBA Trades of 2025 | Morning Shoot Around
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
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Andrew Schlecht, Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni discuss the best trades of 2025.
Host: Andrew Schlecht
With: Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Zena Keita
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the morning shootaround here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm your host, Andrew Schleck with me. |
| 0:13.7 | I've got Dave DeFors, Zina Keda, Esper Henny. |
| 0:16.8 | And we are going to count down the top 10 biggest trades of 2025. |
| 0:23.0 | It's New Year's Eve everywhere, I guess, in the United States of America. |
| 0:28.3 | And I hope you guys are doing well. |
| 0:30.4 | Australia is already in 2026. |
| 0:32.3 | That's true. |
| 0:34.1 | Time travelers over there in Australia. |
| 0:36.8 | That's right. |
| 0:37.3 | San Vasini, happy new year uh okay so |
| 0:40.2 | we are going to talk about these trades there there's there's a lot of trades to go through and |
| 0:47.2 | some that i think are more impactful than others some of these i kind of lean toward the future |
| 0:53.5 | because there's trades that are good trades for teams. |
| 0:57.9 | However, are they impacting the future of the NBA? |
| 1:01.6 | Not all that much. |
| 1:03.7 | And did they make some teams that were already mediocre a little bit better than mediocre this year? |
| 1:08.8 | Yes. |
| 1:09.6 | So those don't get as much of a bump. |
| 1:12.9 | Okay. |
| 1:13.8 | We're starting with Jimmy Butler? |
| 1:15.1 | We can debate any of these. |
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