Serge Ibaka, Victor Oladipo and Thaddeus Young were among the most noteworthy chess pieces to move Thursday around and during the 2016 NBA draft. You can bet, though, they won't be the last to relocate this offseason—not with the other big names that were bandied about in trade rumors, and not with the league bracing for a deluge of TV dollars.
With so much money soon to be floating around, and so few marquee free agents to gobble it up, the trade market could turn into an all-out feeding frenzy once official business begins again on July 1. If your team is packed to the gills with cap space and attractive assets, you might be better off shopping for players currently locked into reasonable deals than luring in guys looking for exceptionally lucrative ones under the Association's exploding salary regime.
Those same forces figure to keep the Sacramento Kings clinging to DeMarcus Cousins and the Chicago Bulls to Jimmy Butler, for now, despite rampant speculation to the contrary.
But for these eight players, draft night might be just the beginning of the trade chatter that surrounds them and all the anxiety ...
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Players Most Likely to Hit Trading Block After 2016 NBA Draft
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