Why is there little movement for NBA players in the first three months?

In a previous article, we explored the circumstances under which a small percentage of players in the NBA can decline trades in which they are included. But collective bargaining agreements are complicated things, and these vetoes aren’t the only things that hold back early-season players. movement.

No trades have been made at this midpoint of the season. No one has been since a complicated eight-role player trade between the Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sept. 30. In fact, the trade was his fourth in the entirety of September. was. And in August, there was just one deal that sent Patrick Beverly to the LA Lakers.

Of course, teams almost always want to give the lineups they’ve amassed in previous offseasons a chance before they make any changes. A move like the one that sent James Harden to Brooklyn just one month into the 2020/21 season is insane and doesn’t need a low-level player trade so early. They need to know what they have before they can know how to improve it.

However, various provisions of the CBA make early changes difficult. Given all the prohibitions on who can trade when and where, it’s probably no mystery as to why so few trades take place before the calendar year changes. Below is a list of all relevant prohibitions.

In addition to the various trade refusals a player can have, players can Can not Not traded, regardless of individual consent. These can include both players that cannot be traded to a particular team, or players that cannot be traded anywhere, and it can be difficult to remember who is subject to which rule. But what is clear is how these rules are stifling the market.

First, as we saw in the last article, there is only one player with a complete no-trade clause. bradley beer of the Washington Wizards. There are 16 more players who have the right to refuse based on their current bird rights status. Kessler Edwards, Derrick Jones, Theo Pinson, Rodney McGruder, Andre Iguodala, Udonis Haslem, Victor Oladipo, Serge Ibaka, Jevon Carter, Wesley Matthews, Nathan Knight, Ryan Arcidiacono,mike mascara, James Harden, Bismack Biyombo When Drew Eubanks.

another player, Deandre Ayton A member of the Phoenix Suns, he also has the unique right to decline any trade he is making on the grounds that he is in the first season of a matched offer sheet. and even then, under no circumstances can he be traded to the team he signed the offer sheet for (Indiana) for 2022/23. And this is the sum of player denials.

Another example of not being able to trade a player is not due to a player’s veto power, but due to rules that affect everyone. The most common such rule is that a player signed as a free agent (including sign-and-trade) may not trade for at least three months or until then. December 15th, whichever is later. The ban covers almost everyone who signed as a free agent this summer, and although the December date has passed, it affects dozens of players, a sizeable portion of the potential trade market. It also affects some other signatures. Stanley Johnson, Kemba Walker, Bruno Fernando, Blake Griffin, Anthony Lamb When Ty Jerome You have to wait until the three-month clock runs out.

In addition, players resignation Anyone who receives a raise of 120% or more in the first year of their new contract than they did in the last year of their previous contract cannot trade until the next date. January 15th, with Early or Full Bird rights, and the resigning team exceeds the cap.Players resigned using another exception (such as Pat Connaughton who signed the extension instead of re-signing) is not eligible. for Colin Sexton).This standard applies to Nick Claxton, Cody Martin, Zach Lavigne, Vlatko Kanker, Kevon Looney, Jeshawn Tate, Nicholas Batum, Amir Coffey, Tyus Jones, Dwayne Dedmon, Victor Oladipo, Jordan Nuwolla, Bobby Portis, Mitchell Robinson, Rugenz Dort, Mohammed Bambayusuf Nurkic, Anfanie Simmons When Chris Boucher; also applies to Beal, Ayton and Oladipo in conjunction with the aforementioned consent requirements.

Players on two-way deals are rarely traded for obvious reasons (they’re fringe players in the NBA, after all), but an additional stipulation prevents them from trading for 30 days after signing. In other words, as it stands now, AJ Lawson, Lewis King, Jared Rhoden, Carrick Jones, Orlando Robinson When Matt Ryan Also, it is currently untradeable.

Some players who signed the extension also withdrew from the trading market in the process. Having signed the Designated Veteran Extension (commonly known as the “Supermax” deal), Devin Booker, Karl-Anthony Towns When Nikola Jokic could not trade until next July, having signed a non-supermax extension larger than what was allowed in an extend-and-trade deal. LeBron James, Maxi Clever, CJ McCallum, Larry Nance Jr., Dean Wade When Andrew Wiggins In addition, transactions are prohibited until six months have passed since the signature.

Finally, players acquired in trades after July 1st cannot be returned to the team they were traded to until July 1st. July 1stThis prevents the next player from returning to the next team.

• Atlanta – Vitt Kreich (Oklahoma City), Justin Holliday (Sacramento), Dejounte Murray (San Antonio)
• Boston – Malcolm Brogdon (Milwaukee), Danilo Gallinari (Oklahoma City)
• brooklyn – Lois O’Neill (Utah)
• cleveland – Donovan Mitchell (Utah), Theo Maledon (Oklahoma City)
• Dallas – Christian Wood (Detroit)
• Denver – Ish Smith, Kentavious Caldwell Pope (Washington)
• Detroit – Bojan Bogdanovic (Utah), Nerlens Noel, Alec Burks (New York)
• golden state – Ty Jerome (Oklahoma City), Jamaican green (Denver)
• houston – Boban Marjanovic (Dallas)
• Indiana – Daniel Theis, Aaron Nesmith (Boston)
• LA Lakers – Patrick Beverly (Minnesota and Utah)
• memphis – Danny Green (Philadelphia)
• Minnesota – Rudy Gobert (Utah)
• Philadelphia – Deanthony Melton (Memphis)
• phoenix – jock randale (Atlanta & San Antonio)
• Portland – Jerami Grant (Detroit)
• sacramento – Kevin Harter (Atlanta)
• San Antonio – Stanley Johnson (LA Lakers)
• Utah – Kelly Olynyk (Detroit), Lauri Markkanen, Ochai Agbaj, Colin Sexton (Cleveland), Tarren Horton Tucker (LA Lakers), Jared Vanderbilt, Leandro Bormalo, Malik Beasley (Minnesota)
• Washington – Will Burton, Monte Morris (Denver)

Combined, there are a number of complications that stand in the way of early-season trades in the NBA. There are even more that may have already been passed (such as stipulations prohibiting players from being traded within the first 30 days of signing as a draft pick, or players received in trades by teams beyond their cap). . Again he for 2 months unless traded alone) or if there was no one else to which it applies (such as he has to wait 2 months before trading a player acquired from a waiver). A full list can be found here.

However, even this ever-shortened list is still a long one: there are still many roadblocks to making a trade in the NBA by January. In fact, very often what actually happens is almost miraculous.