Mark Lazerus of the Chicago Sun Times: Is John Tavares and a few other pending free agents holding up the trade market?
“I don’t really know why, but that’s probably a pretty good theory on why it’s happening,” Hawks general manager Stan Bowman said. “There hasn’t really been much activity at all. I guess we’ll find out over the next few days, when the interview period opens up. Teams are able to talk to players and get a better feel for whether they can land that player. And if they can’t, maybe they’ll be turning toward trades a little more.