Buying or Selling the Hottest NBA Trade Rumors Entering 2015

January 6th, 2015 by Grant Hughes Leave a reply »
The Twitter-clogging, wholly unexpected three-way swap that redistributed J.R. Smith, Iman Shumpert and Dion Waiters on Jan. 5 proved NBA trade season is already upon us.

That means it's time to pay more attention to the chatter, scrutinize sources and separate the plausible rumors from the pie-in-the-sky nonsense. The Smith-Shumpert-Waiters deal came out of nowhere, and even if we'd heard whispers about it ahead of time, we probably would have dismissed them as too ridiculous to believe.

Which goes to show how tricky it can be to sketch out parameters for what's possible in NBA trade talks.

If that deal—rife with seemingly unmovable personalities, damaged goods and demonstrated malcontents—could get done, well...it seems like anything could happen.

The official Feb. 19 deadline is still weeks away, and if the first big deal of the season is any indication, we're going to need every second of time between now and then to prepare. Let's buy and sell the assorted trade gossip flitting around the Association.

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