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As we did with 2022’s offseason trades and the in-season swaps from 2021/22, we’ll be keeping track of all the NBA trades completed this season, updating this article with each transaction. This post can be found anytime throughout the season on our desktop sidebar under “Hoops Rumors Features,” or in our mobile menu under “Features.”

Trades are listed here in reverse chronological order, with the latest on top. So, if a player has been dealt multiple times, the first team listed as having acquired him is the one that ended up with him. Trades listed in italics have been agreed upon but are not yet official. For more details on each trade, click the date above it.

For more information on the specific conditions dictating if and when draft picks involved in these deals will actually change hands, be sure to check out RealGM.com’s breakdown of the details on traded picks.

Here’s the full list of the trades completed during the 2022/23 NBA season:

February 9

• Clippers acquire Mason Plumlee.
• Hornets acquire Reggie Jackson, the Clippers’ 2028 second-round pick, and cash ($1MM).

February 9

• Knicks acquire Josh Hart, the draft rights to Bojan Dubljevic (from Trail Blazers), and the draft rights to Daniel Diez (from Trail Blazers).
• Trail Blazers acquire Matisse Thybulle, Cam Reddish, Ryan Arcidiacono, the Knicks’ 2023 first-round pick (top-14 protected), and the draft rights to Ante Tomic (from Knicks).
• Sixers acquire Jalen McDaniels, the Knicks’ 2024 second-round pick (from Hornets), and the Trail Blazers’ 2029 second-round pick.
• Hornets acquire Svi Mykhailiuk, either the Hornets’, Hawks’, or Nets’ 2023 second-round pick (whichever is most favorable; from Sixers), and either the Pelicans’ or Trail Blazers’ 2027 second-round pick (whichever is most favorable; from Trail Blazers).
• Note: The Hornets traded away their 2023 second-round pick in a prior deal.

February 9

• Clippers acquire Eric Gordon, the Raptors’ 2024 second-round pick (from Grizzlies), either the Pacers’ 2024 second-round pick or the least favorable of the Cavaliers’ and Jazz’s 2024 second-round picks (whichever is most favorable; from Grizzlies), and the Grizzlies’ 2027 second-round pick.
• Grizzlies acquire Luke Kennard and the right to swap a 2026 second-round pick (the most favorable of the Celtics’, Pacers’, and Heat’s picks) for the Clippers’ 2026 second-round pick.
• Rockets acquire Danny Green, John Wall, and the right to swap the Bucks’ 2023 first-round pick for either the Clippers’ or Thunder’s 2023 first-round pick (whichever is least favorable; top-six protected; from Clippers).

February 9

• Celtics acquire Mike Muscala.
• Thunder acquire Justin Jackson, a 2023 second-round pick (details below), and the Celtics’ 2029 second-round pick.
  
• Note: If the Rockets’ second-round pick lands at No. 31 or No. 32, the Thunder will receive either the Mavericks’, Heat’s, or Trail Blazers’ 2023 second-round pick (whichever is least favorable). If the Rockets’ pick lands anywhere else in the second round, the Thunder will receive either the Rockets’ or Trail Blazers’ 2023 second-round pick (whichever is least favorable).

February 9

• Pelicans acquire Josh Richardson.
• Spurs acquire Devonte’ Graham, either the Pelicans’ or Bulls’ 2024 second-round pick (whichever is most favorable), either the Pelicans’ or Trail Blazers’ 2026 second-round pick (whichever is least favorable), the Pelicans’ 2028 second-round pick, and the Pelicans’ 2029 second-round pick.

February 9

• Hawks acquire Saddiq Bey.
• Pistons acquire James Wiseman.
• Warriors acquire Gary Payton II, the Hawks’ 2026 second-round pick, and the Hawks’ 2028 second-round pick.
• Trail Blazers acquire Kevin Knox, either the Hawks’, Nets’, or Hornets’ 2023 second-round pick (whichever is second-most favorable), the Hawks’ 2024 second-round pick, the Hawks’ 2025 second-round pick (protected 41-60), the Grizzlies’ 2026 second-round pick (top-42 protected; from Warriors), and the Warriors’ 2028 second-round pick.
• Note: The Hawks previously traded their 2024 second-round pick to the Trail Blazers with top-55 protection. Those protections were removed as part of this deal.

February 9

• Suns acquire Darius Bazley.
• Thunder acquire Dario Saric, the Suns’ 2029 second-round pick, and cash ($1MM).

February 9

• Rockets acquire Justin Holiday, Frank Kaminsky, the Thunder’s 2024 second-round pick, and the Thunder’s 2025 second-round pick.
• Hawks acquire Garrison Mathews and Bruno Fernando.

February 9

• Suns acquire Kevin Durant and T.J. Warren.
• Nets acquire Mikal Bridges, Cameron Johnson, the Suns’ 2023 first-round pick (unprotected), the Suns’ 2025 first-round pick (unprotected), the Suns’ 2027 first-round pick (unprotected), the Suns’ 2029 first-round pick (unprotected), the right to swap first-round picks with the Suns in 2028, the Bucks’ 2028 second-round pick, the Bucks’ 2029 second-round pick, and the draft rights to Juan Pablo Vaulet (from Pacers).
• Bucks acquire Jae Crowder.
• Pacers acquire Jordan Nwora, George Hill, Serge Ibaka, either the Bucks’ 2023 second-round pick or the least favorable of the Cavaliers’ and Warriors’ 2023 second-round picks (whichever is most favorable), the Bucks’ 2024 second-round pick, the Pacers’ 2025 second-round pick (from Bucks), and cash ($1.36MM; from Nets).
• Note: The Bucks acquired the Pacers’ 2025 second-round pick in a prior trade.

February 9

• Clippers acquire Bones Hyland.
• Nuggets acquire Thomas Bryant.
• Lakers acquire Mohamed Bamba, Davon Reed, the Clippers’ 2024 second-round pick, and the Clippers’ 2025 second-round pick.
• Magic acquire Patrick Beverley, the Nuggets’ 2024 second-round pick, and cash ($2MM; from Lakers).

February 9

• Lakers acquire D’Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, and Jarred Vanderbilt.
• Timberwolves acquire Mike Conley, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, either the Wizards’ or Grizzlies’ 2024 second-round pick (whichever is least favorable; from Lakers), the Jazz’s 2025 second-round pick, and the Jazz’s 2026 second-round pick.
• Jazz acquire Russell Westbrook, Damian Jones, Juan Toscano-Anderson, and the Lakers’ 2027 first-round pick (top-four protected).

February 9

• Raptors acquire Jakob Poeltl.
• Spurs acquire Khem Birch, the Raptors’ 2024 first-round pick (top-six protected), the Raptors’ 2023 second-round pick, and the Raptors’ 2025 second-round pick.

February 7

• Kings acquire Kessler Edwards and cash ($2.58MM).
• Nets acquire the draft rights to David Michineau.

February 7

• Spurs acquire Dewayne Dedmon and the Heat’s 2028 second-round pick.
• Heat acquire cash ($110K).

February 6

• Mavericks acquire Kyrie Irving and Markieff Morris.
• Nets acquire Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, the Mavericks’ 2029 first-round pick (unprotected), the Mavericks’ 2027 second-round pick, and the Mavericks’ 2029 second-round pick.

January 23

• Lakers acquire Rui Hachimura.
• Wizards acquire Kendrick Nunn, the Bulls’ 2023 second-round pick, either the Lakers’ or Wizards’ 2028 second-round pick (whichever is least favorable), and the Lakers’ 2029 second-round pick.
• Note: The Lakers acquired the Wizards’ 2028 second-round pick in a prior trade.

January 5

• Spurs acquire Noah Vonleh and cash ($1.5MM).
• Celtics acquire the Spurs’ 2024 second-round pick (top-54 protected).

Besides being the day when non-guaranteed salaries officially become fully guaranteed, January 10 represents an important date on the NBA calendar for a second reason. It’s also the day when several cap exceptions begin to prorate downward for the rest of the season.

[RELATED: Key In-Season NBA Dates Deadlines For 2022/23]

The non-taxpayer mid-level exception, taxpayer mid-level exception, room exception, and bi-annual exception will all decline in value by 1/174th each day for the rest of the season, beginning today. Trade exceptions and disabled player exceptions will be unaffected.

Each team will be impacted slightly differently by the proration calculations. For instance, the Bulls had $7,290,000 left on their mid-level exception entering Tuesday. Their MLE value will decline by $41,897 per day (1/174th of $7,290,000) for each of the season’s remaining 90 days. By the last day of the season, even if they don’t use it to sign another player, the Bulls’ MLE would be only be worth in the neighborhood of $3.5MM.

A team like the Hornets, with their full $10,490,000 mid-level exception available, will see that exception’s value decline by over $60K per day, while the $691,731 left on the Timberwolves‘ MLE will dip by just $3,975 per day.

Teams’ mid-level and/or bi-annual exceptions will prorate downward daily by 1/174th of the amount left as of January 10, even if that club uses a portion of its exception between now and the end of the season. So if a team has $5MM left on its MLE today and uses $3MM to sign a player tomorrow, that team would still lose 1/174th of $5MM per day the rest of the way, not 1/174th of $2MM.

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These prorating exceptions shouldn’t have a major league-wide impact. However, if a team wants to offer a free agent more than the minimum salary or sign a player to a three- or four-year contract during the second half of the season, they’ll need to use some form of the MLE or BAE. As a result, teams will have to keep tabs on the ever-changing values of those exceptions.

For details on the portions of their mid-level and/or bi-annual exceptions teams have used so far this season, you can check out our trackers here and here.

On January 5, NBA teams became eligible to sign players to 10-day contracts, and many of the signings that take place between now and April will be of the 10-day variety. Hoops Rumors has created a database that allows you to keep on top of those deals, tracking every 10-day signing all season long.

Besides featuring all of this year’s 10-day deals, our 10-Day Contract Tracker includes information on all 10-day contracts signed since the 2006/07 season. The search filters in the database make it easy to sort by team, player, and/or year. For instance, if you want to see all the 10-day contracts that the Hawks have signed in the last 15-plus years, you can do so here. If you want to view Greg Monroe‘s history of 10-day deals, that list is here.

You can also see whether a player and team signed a second 10-day contract, or if those short-term deals led to an agreement that covered the rest of the season. Additionally, our tracker notes which 10-day deals remain active, saving you from having to figure out whether a particular contract ends on Wednesday or Thursday.

We’ve revamped our 10-day tracker since last season, but if you prefer the old look, you can still view it here.

A link to our 10-Day Contract Tracker can be found at any time in the right sidebar under “Hoops Rumors Features” on our desktop site. On our mobile site, you can find it on our “Features” page. We’ll be keeping it up to date for the rest of the season, so be sure to check back to keep tabs on the latest signings as they become official.

When a player signs a 10-day contract, his team has the ability to use cap room or an exception to pay him more than the minimum salary. However, in practice, that never happens — virtually every player that signs a 10-day deal receives a prorated portion of the minimum salary.

The minimum salary in a given season differs from player to player, based on his years of NBA experience entering the season. For instance, in 2022/23, a rookie on a full-season minimum deal will earn $1,017,781, whereas a 10-year veteran who is earning the minimum will make $2,905,851.

[RELATED: NBA Minimum Salaries For 2022/23]

The same is true for 10-day deals. A rookie will earn significantly less over the course of his 10 days with a team than a tenured NBA veteran will.

Because the 2022/23 season is 174 days long, a player’s full-season minimum salary can be divided by 174 to calculate his daily salary. From there, it’s just a matter of multiplying by 10 to determine his salary on a 10-day contract.

Using that formula, here’s the full breakdown of what salaries for 10-day deals look like in ’22/23:

Because the NBA doesn’t want teams to avoid signing veteran players in favor of cheaper, younger options, the league reimburses clubs who sign veterans with three or more years of experience to 10-day, minimum-salary contracts.

In those instances, teams are on the hook for $105,522, the minimum salary for a player with two years of experience, while the NBA covers the difference. So a team would pay the same amount whether they sign a player with three years under his belt or a player with 12 years of NBA experience.

Here are a few examples based on 10-day deals that are currently active:

As of December 29, there were 30 players who were signed to standard, full-season contracts but whose salaries for the 2022/23 campaign weren’t fully guaranteed.

The deadline for teams to waive those players and avoid having their full ’22/23 salaries become guaranteed was on Saturday, January 7 at 4:00 p.m. CT.

Although their salaries won’t technically become guaranteed until January 10, those players would still receive their full-season guarantees if they’re cut today or tomorrow, since they wouldn’t clear waivers until at least Tuesday.

Here’s a roundup of the decisions teams made with those 30 players:

Players who will have their salaries guaranteed:

Each player’s salary is noted here. His cap hit is identical to his salary unless otherwise indicated.

• Jonathan Isaac, Magic: $17,400,000
• Danny Green, Grizzlies: $10,000,000
• James Johnson, Pacers: $2,905,851 *
• Markieff Morris, Nets: $2,905,851 *
• Austin Rivers, Timberwolves: $2,905,851 *
• Matthew Dellavedova, Kings: $2,628,597 *
• Ryan Arcidiacono, Knicks: $2,133,278 *
• Justin Jackson, Celtics: $2,133,278 *
• Luke Kornet, Celtics: $2,133,278
• Dennis Smith Jr., Hornets: $2,133,278 *
• Svi Mykhailiuk, Knicks: $1,968,175 *
• Edmond Sumner, Nets: $1,968,175
• Yuta Watanabe, Nets: $1,968,175 *
• Jaylen Nowell, Timberwolves: $1,930,681
• KZ Okpala, Kings: $1,902,133
• Wenyen Gabriel, Lakers: $1,878,720
• Oshae Brissett, Pacers: $1,846,738
• Nathan Knight, Timberwolves: $1,836,090
• Lamar Stevens, Cavaliers: $1,782,621
• Haywood Highsmith, Heat: $1,752,638
• Stanley Johnson, Spurs: $1,670,643 ^
• Jose Alvarado, Pelicans: $1,563,518
• Vit Krejci, Hawks: $1,563,518
• Jock Landale, Suns: $1,563,518
• Austin Reaves, Lakers: $1,563,518
• Tyrese Martin, Hawks: $1,017,781

(*) cap hit of $1,836,090
(^) cap hit of $1,245,164

Of the 26 players on non-guaranteed contracts who were retained, 24 are earning the minimum salary, so the financial impact of keeping them is relatively minor. Still, open roster spots are valuable at this time of year — some of these players were fortunate not to be let go by a team prioritizing flexibility.

Isaac and Green were the only two players in this group earning more than the minimum. Neither has seen the floor this season while recovering from injury, but both had significant partial guarantees on their respective contracts — Isaac was already owed $16MM and Green was owed $7MM, so it didn’t make sense for either player to be cut.

Players who were waived before their salaries became guaranteed:

Each player’s cap hit is noted here. The team would no longer be on the hook for that cap charge if a player is claimed off waivers.

• Noah Vonleh, Spurs: $1,160,955
• Justin Champagnie, Raptors: $825,000
• Kemba Walker, Mavericks: $684,712
• Chima Moneke, Kings: $500,000

All four of these players were on minimum-salary contracts. Walker was signed well after the regular season got underway and Moneke was earning the rookie minimum, so their dead cap hits are especially modest. Champagnie’s and Moneke’s cap figures are the result of previously negotiated partial guarantees, rather than their prorated minimum salaries.

Vonleh was traded from Boston to San Antonio before being waived, as the Celtics reduced their projected luxury tax bill by getting the Spurs to eat that dead money.

There were a few other players with non-guaranteed salaries who were waived earlier in the season. That group consisted of Facundo Campazzo (Mavericks), Jordan Hall (Spurs), Matt Ryan (Lakers), and Alize Johnson (Spurs). Those moves didn’t go down to the wire like the others listed above, having occurred well in advance of the salary guarantee deadline.

As we explained when we identified the players who will become trade-eligible on unique dates this season, there’s a small group of players whose trade restrictions won’t lift until sometime after the February 9 trade deadline. These players meet one of the following criteria:

1. They signed a free agent contract after November 9.
   • A player who signs a free agent contract doesn’t become eligible to be traded for at least three months.
2. They signed a veteran contract extension (meeting certain criteria) after August 9.
   • A player who signs a veteran extension that keeps him under contract for more than three total years (including his current contract) and/or includes a raise exceeding 5% doesn’t become eligible to be traded for six months.
3. They signed a super-max contract.
   • A player who signs a super-max contract (or a designated veteran contract) doesn’t become eligible to be traded for one year.

We identified all the players who fell into these three categories in our previous story on unique trade dates, but they may have slipped through the cracks amid the larger list of players we discussed in that article.

For that reason, we want to specifically single them out today to make sure it’s clear which players won’t become trade-eligible at all until sometime after the 2022/23 regular season.

Here are the players who fall into the three aforementioned groups and who can’t be traded this season:

Players who have signed free agent contracts since November 9:

• Stanley Johnson (Spurs)
• Kemba Walker (Mavericks)

There has been little action on the free agent market since the regular season began, with most players who have signed with NBA teams receiving two-way contracts rather than standard deals. Technically, three players have signed standard free agent contracts since November 9, but one of those players (Alize Johnson) was waived since then.

More names will join this list if more free agents sign standard contracts between now and February 9.

Players who have signed veteran contract extensions meeting certain criteria since August 9:

• LeBron James (Lakers)
• Maxi Kleber (Mavericks)
• CJ McCollum (Pelicans)
• Larry Nance Jr. (Pelicans)
• Dean Wade (Cavaliers)
• Andrew Wiggins (Warriors)

This is the most notable group of the three, if only for the presence of James at the top of the list.

It’s extremely unlikely that the Lakers would ever trade LeBron unless he asked to be moved, but his recently signed extension eliminates even the remote possibility of a deal until at least the 2023 offseason. If you’re advocating for the slumping Lakers to blow up their roster, you’ll have to leave James out of any hypothetical pre-February 9 trade scenarios.

Before they signed extensions, any of the rest of the players in this group – with the exception of McCollum – could have become viable trade candidates this season. Now, they’re all ineligible to be dealt until after the season.

Players who have signed super-max contracts:

• Devin Booker (Suns)
• Nikola Jokic (Nuggets)
• Karl-Anthony Towns (Timberwolves)

Booker and Jokic were never going to be traded this year, and the same can probably be said for Towns, even as messy as Rudy Gobert‘s integration has been so far. Still, their newly signed super-max extensions make them officially ineligible to be moved until at least next July.

At the start of the 2022/23 campaign, we looked ahead and identified several dates and deadlines to watch on the NBA calendar this season. While that list covered the general highlights, it’s worth taking a closer look at some of those key dates to keep an eye out for in January, which should be a busy month.

Let’s dive in…

Non-guaranteed contracts become guaranteed

January 10 is the date that all non-guaranteed NBA contracts for 2022/23 will officially become guaranteed, but January 7 is really the day to watch.

If a team wants to avoid having a salary become guaranteed, the player must clear waivers before January 10, which means he needs to be cut by January 7 — at the latest.

Many players without fully guaranteed salaries are in no danger of being waived by next Saturday, but some teams will take the opportunity to save a little money and open up a roster spot.

Teams can begin signing players to 10-day contracts

As of January 5, clubs will be able to sign players to standard 10-day contracts, which count against team salary for cap and tax purposes and require an opening on the 15-man roster to complete.

Rebuilding teams generally use 10-day contracts to audition G League standouts or other prospects to see if they might be worth investing in beyond this season. Contending clubs are more inclined to use 10-day contracts to bring in veterans who can step in right away to address a need or provide depth at a position hit hard by injuries.

We extensively outlined the details of 10-day contracts and explained how they work in our glossary entry on the subject.

More players become trade-eligible

A significant portion of the NBA’s offseason signees became eligible to be traded on December 15, but there are still many players who can’t be dealt. By the end of January, that list of players ineligible to be traded will shrink further, since there are 28 players currently on track to have those restrictions lift between now and January 31.

January 15 is the key date, with 21 players becoming trade-eligible as of that Sunday. That group includes some players who almost certainly aren’t going anywhere, but a handful of players on the list could be involved in trade rumors in 2023, including some who have already been popular subjects of speculation. Bradley Beal, Zach LaVine, and Deandre Ayton are a few of the headliners.

A number of other offseason signees have unique trade-eligible dates in January, since they signed as free agents in October or inked a veteran extension in July. That list features names both big (like Damian Lillard) and small (such as Isaiah Joe).

Other odds and ends

There are a few other dates in January that are worth mentioning, despite the fact that they’ll likely come and go without much fanfare.

On January 10, mid-level and room exceptions – along with other cap exceptions like the bi-annual exception – will start to prorate for the year, meaning a team with its full mid-level exception available would no longer be able to offer the full $10.49MM amount to a free agent. Exceptions will decline in value by 1/174th per day, starting on January 10.

January 15 is the last day that teams can apply for a disabled player exception to replace an injured player who is deemed unlikely to return this season. A disabled player exception can give a club extra cap flexibility, though that team may still have to open up a roster spot to add a player using its DPE. Only the Celtics and Thunder have received DPEs so far this season, and the Thunder already used theirs.

On January 20, all players on two-way contracts will have their minimum salaries for the season become fully guaranteed.