NBA trade deadline 2025: Latest deals, news, reports

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Dec 22, 2024, 06:22 PM ET

The NBA waste and acquisition deadline is not until Feb. 6, but the buzz astir notable players and teams is already building up.

Keep an oculus connected players specified arsenic Jimmy Butler, Zion Williamson and Zach LaVine, who'll beryllium linked to imaginable trades. Teams specified arsenic the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers could besides beryllium successful the marketplace to statement up for imaginable postseason runs.

There already has been immoderate intriguing moves up of the caller year. The Brooklyn Nets sent defender Dennis Schroder to the Warriors, while the Indiana Pacers acquired halfway Thomas Bryant from the Miami Heat.

Who other could beryllium connected the move betwixt now and the waste and acquisition deadline? We'll person the latest reports and news from our NBA Insiders from astir the league.

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Dec. 22

6:18 p.m. ET: Oklahoma City Thunder defender Alex Caruso has agreed to a four-year, $81 cardinal statement hold done the 2028-29 season, his supplier Greg Lawrence of Wasserman told ESPN's Shams Charania connected Sunday. The woody keeps the two-time NBA All-Defensive Team action from becoming a free agent.

5:30 p.m. ET: The New York Knicks signed defender Landry Shamet, providing coach Tom Thibodeau's squad with seasoned extent disconnected the bench.

Shamet had signed connected pinch the Knicks successful September but was waived aft suffering a dislocated enarthrosis successful a preseason game. He played complete the past week for the Knicks' G League connection but now joins the main roster.

Thibodeau said highly of the defender aggregate times passim training camp, highlighting the ways he would fresh successful pinch the club.


Dec. 19

4 p.m. ET: After ESPN insider Bobby Marks released his All-Trade Buzz team, chap NBA experts Tim Bontemps and Brian Windhorst discussed the futures of 2 players connected the 10-man list: Zach LaVine and D'Angelo Russell.

Speaking connected NBA Today, Bontemps said he expects LaVine to enactment pinch the Chicago Bulls because of his statement situation.

"He's sewage a max statement for the adjacent 2 years ... guys pinch large contracts are going to beryllium difficult to move successful this caller [collective bargaining agreement] situation that the NBA is in," Bontemps said.

And what astir Russell, who is connected an expiring woody pinch the Los Angeles Lakers?

"I don't deliberation teams are retired location looking to waste and acquisition for him. I deliberation they're looking for his contract," Windhorst said.