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Chicago’s Zach LaVine, if we’re being realistic, is unlikely to be traded before January … if he’s even moved at all.

A trade involving a contract as substantial as LaVine’s is tricky to construct in the best of times and a far more significant undertaking before Dec. 15, for starters, when roughly 25% of the league’s nearly 450 players on standard contracts is still ineligible to be traded.