Business Insider reports that a new trend may be emerging in the NBA in how teams handle superstars before they hit free agency.
When a star is approaching free agency, teams usually have two options. The first is to try to persuade that player to stay by improving the team. the second is to shop the player in trades before they can leave for nothing in the offseason.
Those scenarios only become more complicated when a player makes it known in advance which team they want to join. The Indiana Pacers saw this with Paul George last year. George essentially let it be known that he would join the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018 as a free agent.
In such scenarios, the trade market evaporates.
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