NBA Trade Rumors You Need To Know A Week Before Deadline

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The 2017 trade deadline is only a week away. As expected, the NBA trade rumors continue to run rampant. Let’s take a look at the latest and try to discern fact from fiction.

Based on all of the NBA trade rumors flying around right now, the league is about to be turned on its head. However, as we all know, the weeks leading up to the NBA Trade Deadline are filled with false hopes and unfounded speculation.

With only a week to go before all deals must be done, it seems necessary to take a look at which rumors deserve to be taken seriously and which ones don’t. Unfortunately, there are more that fit into the latter category than the former.

That’s the way the NBA rumor mill works these days, though.

Here’s what we’re going to do–we’re going to take a quick look at some of the top rumors right now. In doing so, we’re going to shed some light on what’s really going on and what we should be expecting to happen before the February 23 deadline.

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Sifting through the mess a week before the deadline is never easy. Luckily for you, I’m here to help get us all through this stressful time in the season.

So here they are–the NBA trade rumors you need to know about as the 2017 deadline looms just a week away.