Chicago’s Zach LaVine, if we’re being realistic, is unlikely to be traded before January … if he’s even moved at all.
A trade involving a contract as substantial as LaVine’s is tricky to construct in the best of times and a far more significant undertaking before Dec. 15, for starters, when roughly 25% of the league’s nearly 450 players on standard contracts is still ineligible to be traded.
If Ben Simmons with no confidence and one vertebrae can get traded for James Harden anything is possible.