It’s almost that time of the year, folks. No, I’m not talking about Christmas, I’m talking about the kick-off to NBA #TradeSZN unofficially coming on Dec. 15.
While there is nothing preventing teams from pulling off trades before that date, you must have noticed a certain lack of activity on that front during the first couple of months of play. While that has a lot to do with teams coming off an offseason in which they already shaped their rosters thinking about them as winning/tanking units, thus the wait to see how things work or not, it is also because of the rules of the NBA when it comes to trading newly-signed free agents.