The NBA is moving its trade deadline to the Thursday before the All-Star Game for the 2017-18 season, according to The Vertical’s Shams Charania. Historically the deadline has occurred on the Thursday following the event, but next season’s is slated for Feb. 8.
NBA trade deadline will be 2 weeks earlier to avoid another DeMarcus Cousins scenario
Cousins was traded shortly after the 2017 All-Star Game.
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This rule change comes in the season after DeMarcus Cousins, a Western Conference All-Star, played only two minutes in the 2017 All-Star Game before he was dealt to the New Orleans Pelicans soon after. That trade was likely agreed to during the game, and became a way bigger deal than any event that happened during the weekend.
While dodging that fiasco from ever occurring again, the NBA created a new one. If an All-Star is traded before the new trade deadline to the other conference, does he also switch conferences for the All-Star Game? We’ll see how that plays out.
Details on the “Boogie rule change” have yet to surface aside from Charania’s report that the teams were alerted of the change on Wednesday.
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