The 2024 NBA commerce deadline is just not at the moment anticipated to have a substantial quantity of exercise, nor the large identify gamers resembling final season when each Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving have been traded.
“Numerous patrons, few sellers,” wrote Adrian Wojnarowski on Threads when requested what he anticipates for the commerce deadline.
“A part of that’s the Play-In Match, which has stored extra groups attempting to succeed in the postseason as an alternative of dropping down into the lottery. Additionally, this is not thought-about a powerful draft class the very high, so there’s even much less motivation to commerce a postseason berth versus a couple of additional ping-pong balls within the lottery. There might be trades. There might be sellers. However the asking value goes to be excessive from the actually dangerous groups to maneuver belongings — in order that [it] slows down.”
The Toronto Raptors are a group who may grow to be vital sellers on the deadline because of the impending free businesses of OG Anunoby and Pascal Siakam, however Wojnarowski reported that “Toronto simply is not there but on these choices.”