Jones seems more likely to be keeper for the Wizards through the rest of the season before they evaluate whether to pick up his guarantee for 2025-26. A second-round pick in 2023, Jones’ anemic offense prevented him from gaining traction in Sacramento, and he was thrown into a deadline deal for Memphis’ Jake LaRavia.

Examining the names to monitor this summer now that the 2025 NBA trade deadline period has closed. John Schuhmann Kyrie Irving and Russell Westbrook are among the top players who could opt into free agency this summer.

During the week leading up to the NBA's trade deadline the league just dives as deeply as possible into transactional chaos. It can be a bit funny in the moment, sure. Seeing the Suns players react to the Luka trade, for example, doesn't seem like a particularly meaningful or harmful moment.

HoopsHype ranks the 15 busiest trade deadlines in NBA history, now led by 2024-25, which saw 63 players and eight All-Stars get traded.

The 3 p.m. ET deadline was a moment in time, but this 2025 version qualified as a “trade week” at least, almost as a “trade season” if we look back to Dec. 15 when Thomas Bryant moved from Miami to Indiana and Dennis Schröder went from Brooklyn to Golden State.

After a fairly quiet NBA trade deadline by the Boston Celtics, the defending champs will now hit the buyout market to fill at least one open roster spot

"He’s an unbelievable player, unbelievable defender, so I definitely think there’s a place for him in this league.”

The Boston Celtics had a pretty quiet trade deadline, though that was to be expected. Beyond trading Jaden Springer to the Houston Rockets, the Celtics did not make another trade.

The NBA trade deadline has passed and it was an active one to say the least, filled with high-impact, high profile moves. The activity started in earnest on Saturday when the Dallas Mavericks sent their superstar and heart of their team,