How active will the Trade Deadline be? | ALL NBA Podcast
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the last one I have for you here, Mark, is just about the trade deadline in general. I feel that it's going to be somewhat quiet. There's always the chance for one of these big moves, but in years past, there's always been big moves, medium moves, small moves. And I'm wondering with this new CBA if the medium and small moves are also more difficult to pull off. And I'll give you an example of a small one. |
| 0:22.1 | At the deadline, there's a lot of tax teams that try to duck the tax. You know, they're a million over |
| 0:26.2 | and let's just get rid of our 15th guy or whatever and move the pieces around. Are those moves? |
| 0:31.3 | The little ones on the margins that teams need just to make their salary cap situation where their |
| 0:36.3 | future plans work, Are those even more |
| 0:38.8 | difficult under this new CBA? They are more difficult, but they're still going to happen. |
| 0:44.1 | Again, a week ago or not a week ago, even Friday, we had only seen one trade to that point. |
| 0:51.6 | People are getting frustrated. This trade deadline sucks. When are we going to see |
| 0:54.9 | some action? And like things have already picked up. We saw two trades over the weekend. You know, |
| 1:01.1 | Cleveland. Keon Ellis was the guy that I think most teams, at least most teams that I spoke to, |
| 1:05.9 | they thought he was the guy who could move independent of whatever is going on with the honest, and that proved correct. |
| 1:12.6 | The Cavs make a three-team trade where they get both Keon Ellis and Dennis Schrooter and shed DeAndre Hunter |
| 1:20.4 | and reduce their tax bill significantly. |
| 1:22.7 | So there's like Charlotte, Brooklyn and Utah. |
| 1:28.6 | Those are three teams that are all very willing to take up, to do the kind of trades. |
| 1:34.4 | You just suggested the Nuggets have to make a move like that. |
| 1:38.0 | The Raptors, if the Raptors don't make a big move, they still need to shed some salary to get under the tax. You've got a variety of |
| 1:46.0 | teams that want to create roster room so they can convert two-way players to standard contracts, |
| 1:51.8 | like your Nuggets with Spencer Jones, like the Mavericks where I live with Ryan Nebhardt and |
| 1:57.0 | Musa Sise. You're going to, I still think, look, we're already talking about a potential |
| 2:03.2 | harden trade that nobody really had on their bingo card. And that is significant. I still think |
| 2:10.7 | we're going to get 10 to 15 more trades at least between now and the buzzer at 3 p.m. Eastern. And look, they're not all going to be |
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