The trade deadline is at 2pm Central on Thursday. Hoops Rumors has several resources to help you prepare for it and to follow along once players start moving. We’ll sum them up:
- Our free and highly customizable Trade Rumors app for iOS and Android allows you to monitor deadline activity on the go, and you can set up alerts that let you know when the action happens. Download it now!
- Our Trade Candidate Series provides in-depth looks at 15 players who’ve either drawn frequent mention in trade rumors or appear to be logical fits for a trade. Markieff Morris, Jeff Teague and Rudy Gay are among the figures we examine.
- Six trades have taken place already this season in the NBA. See the details on each of them here. We’ll also be summarizing all the deadline trades on this page once they happen.
- A complicated set of rules govern NBA trades. This entry in the Hoops Rumors Glossary breaks down the salary-matching parameters.
- See more in-depth explanations on NBA trade and salary cap rules in our full glossary.
- Trade exceptions allow teams to circumvent salary matching. Here’s a list of every existing trade exception and how much they’re worth, categorized by team.
- Trade kickers are bonuses players receive when they’re traded. Several players have these clauses in their contracts, making it more difficult for teams to put them into deals. We run down the players with trade kickers here.
- These players can veto trades either because they have no-trade clauses, re-signed with their teams on short-term deals, accepted qualifying offers, or signed offer sheets that were matched.
- First-round picks are valuable trade assets, but some teams aren’t allowed to trade any at the deadline this year, and other front offices don’t have many picks they can trade. We examined the ability of all 30 teams to trade first-rounders.
- Our list of 2016 free agents shows you who’s on an expiring contract.
- What’s next? Our calendar shows the rest of the key 2015/16 dates.