In an effort to prevent NBA teams from signing players and then virtually immediately shipping them elsewhere, players on a new contract can’t be traded until today. That means that Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges is now officially eligible to be dealt anywhere.
Trade season unofficially begins in the middle of December, and January 15 is the next milestone in players becoming available ahead of the February 6 deadline. Bridges was a high-profile signing for Charlotte, but he’s probably not untouchable .
Hornets can trade Miles Bridges now
It remains to be seen if the Hornets will trade anyone of note . They’re likely to ship off Vasilije Micic , or Cody Martin, but anyone beyond that is a bit of a question mark. That certainly includes Miles Bridges, who is on the first of a three-year, $75 million deal.
However, he, along with 16 other NBA players, can now be traded. The Hornets are sort of going nowhere this year, so it’s not a bad idea to get out from one of the few big contracts they have on the books and really set the rebuild into motion…