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The 2025-26 NBA season has reached the quarter mark, and buzz around the league is beginning to heat up.

From 12-time All-Stars leaving their current teams to franchise stars weighing their future options, this season is already delivering the drama… and we haven't even hit Christmas Day! What happens in the days and weeks before the Feb. 5 trade deadline remains to be seen. What do we know? It'll get only hotter from here.

Stay tuned for all the latest trade buzz, news and reactions from our ESPN NBA insiders.

Dec. 12

The trade season expanding on Dec. 15 was a primary topic on Brian Windhorst's The Hoop Collective podcast on Friday. Will there be any action in December?

«I don't think there's going to be trades happening next week,» Windhorst said. «But it coincides with the point in the season where teams start to make some decisions about the ineptitude or… some of the weaknesses of their rosters. And that's when things start to get going.»

ESPN's Bobby Marks shared Windhorst's sentiment.

«Eighty-two players starting on Monday are eligible. December is relatively somewhat of a quiet month, tradewise,» Marks said. «Certainly we start hearing more rumors, but we had a trade last year on the first day players were eligible and Dennis Schroder was traded from Brooklyn to Golden State.

»And I think going into Monday we'll have eyes on Chris Paul as far as to figure out… if it eventually gets resolved here. But I think the total number is 90% of the NBA is trade-eligible as of Monday."

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