Bradley Beal's no-trade clause is openly mocked around the NBA -- and now it's controlling the trade deadline
To understand the state of the 2025 NBA trade deadline, with one week to go and one Jimmy Butler still in a standoff with his own team, you have to go back to 2022. With the 3 p.m. ET deadline on Feb.
How Bradley Beal still controls the NBA trade deadline in Phoenix
This presupposes that the trade for Beal is the original roster construction problem in Phoenix that must be solved -- that under the new collective bargaining agreement, building a team around three max salary players, one of whom is performing far below a max level, is untenable.
We've reached the point in NBA trade season in which the distance from the deadline is no longer measured in weeks, but days.
There will certainly be plenty of trade action in the next few days, as salaries have simply grown too high for teams to ...
No player is untradeable in the NBA, but some are more difficult to move ... contest as to what the worst contract in the league is. Beal is still a good scorer, averaging 17.2 points per game ...
The NBA trade deadline draws closer by the day, and as always, the transaction cycle remains headlined by the same small ...
Since we last did this exercise, one of the main players (Jimmy Butler) circulated in rumors remains the same. But there are ...
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