Previous trades that occurred near the draft were all finalized around 5-10PM. Examples:

Mikal Bridges to the Knicks (2024): The night before the draft at roughly 9:30 PM ET.

Anthony Davis to the Lakers (2019): The Saturday before the draft around 6:45 PM ET.

Bradley Beal to the Suns (2023): The Sunday before the draft around 6:00 PM ET.

Alex Caruso to the Thunder (2024): The week of the draft around 5:00 PM ET.

LegitimateMoney00 | Knicks

311 | 6 hours ago

Who remembers Paul George and Kawhi happening at like 3AM? Woke up and my phone was blowing up like crazy.

SiphenPrax | Knicks

106 | 6 hours ago

That whole 2019 free agency was so crazy and fun. It’s actually funny that the two big losers (Knicks and Lakers) won championships after it happened while the two big winners (Nets and Clippers) bombed in the playoffs and never won a chip with their players (yet, in the case of Kawhi with the Clippers).

I still want the Clippers to win a title and wouldn’t even hate the Nets winning one now, but still the 2019 free agency aged like spoiled milk.

coolmike67 | Huskies

11 | 5 hours ago

I was not having fun tracking planes that week

Choopster | Warriors

17 | 4 hours ago

Who tf is blowing your phone up at 3am about an nba trade??

Comfortable_Cup5107 | Thunder

7 | 6 hours ago

I was playing fortnite with the boys. Little did I know it was going to be the best thing that could have ever happened for the team but God damn was I depressed that night

wcooper97 | OKC

3 | 4 hours ago

A trade and signing so large it caused an earthquake in LA

WordTimely8559 | Lakers

1 | 6 hours ago

I was downstairs gaming when my little brother just started randomly screaming over that trade lol.

shockwave8428 | Trail Blazers

1 | 3 hours ago

I was on a red eye flight and this was before a lot of planes had WiFi for free. Landed, opened phone, saw the notification like 20 mins after it happened and me and my brother were going crazy

DreamAmen | Rockets

1 | 2 hours ago

I remember closing my eyes to go to sleep, and not even 10 seconds later hearing 2 loud ass “dings”. I was a little shocked because I usually keep my phone on silent. As I’m turning the phone down, I read the headline and yelled “oh shit”. Woke my mom up cause she texted me. I get a call from my dad expecting him to ask what’s wrong and he asks me if this news was fake. Cause why would they do it right now.

BetweenTheBuzzAndMe | Charlotte Bobcats

0 | 3 hours ago

I was in LA when that happened, that was a fun evening

I_Set_3_Alarms | Celtics

74 | 6 hours ago

Are you telling me I should focus on my job instead of browsing Reddit for trade news?

Double-Slowpoke | Raptors

23 | 5 hours ago

OP is clearly a bot working for our corporate overlords.

__STOOLKRAKEN | Celtics

6 | 5 hours ago

wagie wagie back in cagie

syncc6 | Heat

1 | 3 hours ago

Thank god there are World Cup games going on right now to distract me from this circus.

that0neGuy22 | Celtics

67 | 6 hours ago

Considering Jaylen is streaming right now I hope so

SiphenPrax | Knicks

33 | 6 hours ago

He should just announce it out of nowhere while on Twitch

bigcatsbrother

8 | 5 hours ago

He is going to take a phone call and chat will go wild.

TBeard495 | Pacers

51 | 6 hours ago

My prediction is it happens anytime from now, until it happens. Most likely getting traded to the team he gets traded to.

Aaaaaaandyy | Knicks

14 | 6 hours ago

Just to add to this, if he’s traded it will almost certainly be to a team that he may or may not want to be traded to (too soon to tell).

Forkielifter | LAL

2 | 5 hours ago

But if he gets traded expect the coaching staff the reach out to him anytime from now until they reach out to him.

sling_gun

2 | 3 hours ago

Thanks Magic

Flaky-Hyena-127 | Suns

1 | 8 minutes ago

Thank you perd hapley

AlwaysCallACAB | Slovenia

37 | 6 hours ago

Rooting for Jaylen Brown to make out the best here if it ends up being the Celtics

HumongousBelly

4 | 5 hours ago

Wtf are you talking about? He wants to go to Shanghai!

FlipMoBitch | Bucks

22 | 6 hours ago

Bucks got Dame around 2/3pm FYI

Character-Dress-2101 [OP]

33 | 6 hours ago

He was traded way after the draft. These are all the trades that occurred within the 6 days leading up to the draft.

PaleontologistOk5997 | Bucks

11 | 6 hours ago

That wasn’t done around the draft

Gristle__McThornbody | Lakers

10 | 6 hours ago

Just fn do it already

LightSpecialist804 | Knicks

5 | 6 hours ago

Luka trade happened at like midnight though

Joethetoolguy

8 | 6 hours ago

That wasn’t right before the draft. Also had only two teams involved and nobody else was bidding

Comfortable_Cup5107 | Thunder

6 | 6 hours ago

The post clearly says trades that occur near the draft

-Sofa-King-Vote | Knicks

3 | 6 hours ago

Is this sub just going to keep spamming posts about not happened yet trade that we all know is going to happen?

BananaRepublic_BR | Spurs

3 | 6 hours ago

I hope with all of my heart that Giannis doesn’t get traded. I want all of this discussion to be for nothing.

Raptorpicklezz | Raptors

4 | 5 hours ago

Remember when Burt Steele said the Melo trade to Houston would happen at 5:45 PM on a specific day?

ErrForceOnes

2 | 6 hours ago

Hope Shams doesn’t have dinner plans tonight.

KnicksWatch

1 | 6 hours ago

the kawhi/pg one at 3am is the outlier that proves it lol. that 5-10pm window makes sense — gives GMs time after market close to work things out without staying up all night. bridges at 9:30 was wild, i remember that night exactly

Wyl_Younghusband

1 | 5 hours ago

MIL just trade his ass already

donny_pots | 76ers

1 | 5 hours ago

We need someone to go count the number of cigarette butts in the ash tray outside NBA HQ to see if it’s true or not

RyouBestGirl | Spurs

1 | 5 hours ago

Mofo sneaked in Bradley Beal lmao

chasingit1 | Nuggets

1 | 5 hours ago

We are at the precipice of an enormous crossroad

jjkelly71997

1 | 32 minutes ago

and i am not liking it one bit

EliteFactor

1 | 5 hours ago

Who cares.

thekittiestitties00 | Hawks

1 | 5 hours ago

Man, y’all need some hobbies.

seloun

1 | 5 hours ago

Actually those were all around midnight GMT

I think the implications are obvious

17461863372823734930 | Celtics

1 | an hour ago

Carmelo at 5:45 too

JasonWaterfaII | Pistons

1 | an hour ago

It’s the final countdown

Final_Amu0258

1 | an hour ago

Why do you have to put in my head that it’ll happen tonight between a set time now lmao. I immediately checked my clock lmfao.

jjkelly71997

1 | 37 minutes ago

does any one see a path where the Bucks keep Giannis? this grown ass woman just may cry if he gets traded?

falkelord90

1 | 31 minutes ago

Not looking like a 5pm announcement, all the pizza places near the Celtics operations office are “as busy as usual”

New-Worldliness5163 | Lakers

-1 | 6 hours ago

anywhere but Boston

rocket_beer | Celtics

3 | 6 hours ago

I agree

FlameScout | Heat

2 | 5 hours ago

Deadass

If Giannis gets traded today, it will happen between 5-10PM based on historical precedent