Examining the names to monitor this summer now that the 2025 NBA trade deadline period has closed. John Schuhmann Kyrie Irving and Russell Westbrook are among the top players who could opt into free agency this summer.

Now that the NBA trade deadline is behind us, I feel like it's a good spot to talk about the elephant in the room with all this. The timing of the deadline is always awkward, but this year things felt particularly chaotic.

The final numbers from trade-deadline time: no fewer than eight current and past All-Stars, some of them recent All-NBA selections, some among the league’s highest scorers and even three Olympic gold medalists,