2024-25 set record for most players moved in one trade deadline

What was possibly trying prefer it might be a quiet NBA commerce deadline resulting from CBA-related restrictions was something however that, as 2024-25 formally set the document for many gamers moved at one deadline with 63.

For this train, we used the NBA commerce deadline day and the six days earlier than the precise deadline, that means for this yr, the rely began final Friday.

It wasn’t simply small names being moved this yr, as we simply noticed the primary mid-season commerce of two reigning All-NBA gamers in league historical past when Luka Doncic and Anthony Davis bought swapped for each other. Multi-time All-Star Jimmy Butler was additionally moved, in addition to elite guard De’Aaron Fox and former No. 2 general decide, Brandon Ingram. And that’s together with a bevy of different high-level gamers who will issue into this season’s upcoming playoff race that have been additionally traded.

Earlier than this yr, the earlier document for gamers moved at one commerce deadline was 57, which occurred in 2021-22, a yr that noticed eight All-Stars get dealt, the identical quantity as this yr. (Once more, we’re solely counting commerce deadline day and the six days earlier to every commerce deadline. If we prolonged what we outline because the commerce deadline, this yr would have truly seen 9 All-Stars get traded, as D’Angelo Russell was traded on Dec. 29. However he doesn’t rely for our train.)

Curiously sufficient, neither this yr nor 2021-22 owns the document for many All-Stars moved proper at one NBA commerce deadline. That distinction, per our analysis, nonetheless belongs to 2004-05, a commerce deadline that noticed 10 All-Stars get traded(!), and 34 gamers general, headlined by the likes of Chris Webber and Gary Payton, two now-Corridor of Famers.

Regardless, beneath, take a look at the 15 busiest commerce deadlines in NBA historical past, now led by 2024-25’s 63.

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All-Stars traded: 8 (Zach LaVine, Luka Doncic, Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Davis, Jimmy Butler, Khris Middleton, Brandon Ingram, De’Aaron Fox)

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All-Stars traded: 7 (James Harden, Ben Simmons, Domantas Sabonis, Kristaps Porzingis, Goran Dragic, Paul Millsap, Andre Drummond)

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All-Stars traded: 6 (Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, Mike Conley, Russell Westbrook, John Wall, D’Angelo Russell)

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All-Stars traded: 4 (Nikola Vucevic, Victor Oladipo, Jeff Teague, Rajon Rondo)

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All-Stars traded: 7 (Deron Williams, Carmelo Anthony, Gerald Wallace, Chauncey Billups, Mo Williams, Devin Harris, Baron Davis)

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All-Stars traded: 2 (Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph)

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All-Stars traded: 1 (Gordon Hayward)

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All-Stars traded: 6 (Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, Tracy McGrady, Josh Howard, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Theo Ratliff)

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All-Stars traded: 4 (D’Angelo Russell, Andre Drummond, Isaiah Thomas, Andre Iguodala)

All-Stars traded: 4 (Cedric Ceballos, Kenny Anderson, Otis Thorpe, Terry Cummings)

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All-Stars traded: 2 (Kevin Garnett, Danny Granger)

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All-Stars traded: 3 (Jason Kidd, Ben Wallace, Wally Szczerbiak)

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All-Stars traded: 10 (Baron Davis, Jamal Mashburn, Gary Payton, Chris Webber, Antoine Walker, Glenn Robinson, Dale Davis, Steve Smith, Vin Baker, Tom Gugliotta)