Why are teams allowed to trade players while the season is still ongoing?

[magee]

Teams can announce trades and it be approved before the business years ends, which I think is June 29th this year. Since it isn't official, a team can rescind a deal and also let other know whatever assets they acquire can then be traded during this calendar year.

Let's say Phoenix wanted its 2026 pick back from Memphis, who got it from Orlando. They would have to talk to Memphis about it. Now, if the Bane/KCP deal is rescinded for whatever reason, then all assets go back to the teams and Phoenix would then have to talk to Orlando about acquiring it.

*NBA has it listed as an actual transaction. So I guess my point doesn't matter. Haha. Or maybe it does if a physical is failed in this time frame?

[f4p]

In a lot of cases you will be right, there can be scenarios like additional trades that are pending on this one, it can impact draft decisions, maybe a team is affraid that another trade goes off the table.

Here it only impacted 2 teams, but there were cases as mentioned with Horford where almost a quarter of the league was out as a potential trade candidate. One of the main complaints related to the Luka trade was that Dallas didn't even check offers with other teams, so it is also going a bit in this direction.

As some other posters mentioned, this is something that had almost no impact until now, so I see it more as the impact it could potentially have. Imagine something like the Luka/AD trade happening in the Playoffs after the Lakers just lost in the 1st round. So my perspective is more to change it before it becomes an issue.

As you can see from most of the responses in this thread, people really like to let something become a big problem instead of proactively fixing it and then also eventually complain that no one thought to fix it. "It's only sort of a problem so why do anything when doing anything requires essentially no effort" has always been such a weird take to me, whatever the subject.

Yes, IND lost game 4, so let’s let them trade for Durant for Game 5. Same rules for all.

Alternately, prevent the entire NBA from making trades, and force them to wait an additional 4-6 weeks for no reason,

i mean, yes? no one can sign a free agent until july 1st because that's technically when the next season begins. doesn't seem to be much reason to not let trades happen after the thing specifically called "the trade deadline" until the next season beings. it would be weird if teams out of the playoffs could start signing everyone from other teams out of the playoffs.

If this was a real problem, there would be real evidence.

the evidence is that trades have happened that only a certain fraction of the league can make. no other evidence is needed.

If the system was truly a big advantage, does the fact that almost no teams make trades during the playoffs, every year, really make sense to you?

again, why does it need to be a big advantage? why can't we just have a zero advantage trade system? since it just takes changing some words in a document? changing them from being able to make trades after you are eliminated to making trades after the playoffs are over (or july 1st like free agency).