2024-25 set the record for the most players moved in one NBA trade deadline

What was maybe looking like it could be a quiet NBA trade deadline due to CBA-related restrictions was anything but that, as 2024-25 officially set the record for most players moved at one deadline with 63.

For this exercise, we used the NBA trade deadline day and the six days before the actual deadline, meaning for this year, the count started last Friday.

It wasn’t just small names being moved this year, as we just saw the first mid-season trade of two reigning All-NBA players in league history when Luka Doncic and Anthony Davis got swapped for one another. Multi-time All-Star Jimmy Butler was also moved, as well as elite guard De’Aaron Fox and former No. 2 overall pick, Brandon Ingram. And that’s along with a bevy of other high-level players who will factor into this season’s upcoming playoff race that were also traded.

Before this year, the previous record for players moved at one trade deadline was 57, which happened in 2021-22, a year that saw eight All-Stars get dealt, the same amount as this year. (Again, we’re only counting trade deadline day and the six days previous to each trade deadline. If we extended what we define as the trade deadline, this year would have actually seen nine All-Stars get traded, as D’Angelo Russell was traded on Dec. 29. But he doesn’t count for our exercise.)

Interestingly enough, neither this year nor 2021-22 owns the record for most All-Stars moved right at one NBA trade deadline. That distinction, per our research, still belongs to 2004-05, a trade deadline that saw 10 All-Stars get traded(!), and 34 players overall, headlined by the likes of Chris Webber and Gary Payton, two now-Hall of Famers.

Regardless, below, check out the 15 busiest trade deadlines in NBA history, now led by 2024-25’s 63.

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All-Stars traded: 8 (Zach LaVine, Luka Doncic, Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Davis, Jimmy Butler, Khris Middleton, Brandon Ingram, De’Aaron Fox)

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All-Stars traded: 7 (James Harden, Ben Simmons, Domantas Sabonis, Kristaps Porzingis, Goran Dragic, Paul Millsap, Andre Drummond)

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All-Stars traded: 6 (Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, Mike Conley, Russell Westbrook, John Wall, D’Angelo Russell)

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All-Stars traded: 4 (Nikola Vucevic, Victor Oladipo, Jeff Teague, Rajon Rondo)

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All-Stars traded: 7 (Deron Williams, Carmelo Anthony, Gerald Wallace, Chauncey Billups, Mo Williams, Devin Harris, Baron Davis)

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All-Stars traded: 2 (Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph)

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All-Stars traded: 1 (Gordon Hayward)

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All-Stars traded: 6 (Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, Tracy McGrady, Josh Howard, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Theo Ratliff)

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All-Stars traded: 4 (D’Angelo Russell, Andre Drummond, Isaiah Thomas, Andre Iguodala)

All-Stars traded: 4 (Cedric Ceballos, Kenny Anderson, Otis Thorpe, Terry Cummings)

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All-Stars traded: 2 (Kevin Garnett, Danny Granger)

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All-Stars traded: 3 (Jason Kidd, Ben Wallace, Wally Szczerbiak)

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All-Stars traded: 10 (Baron Davis, Jamal Mashburn, Gary Payton, Chris Webber, Antoine Walker, Glenn Robinson, Dale Davis, Steve Smith, Vin Baker, Tom Gugliotta)

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All-Stars traded: 4 (Jermaine O’Neal, Shawn Marion, Sam Cassell, Brad Miller)

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All-Stars traded: 6 (Isaiah Thomas, Dwyane Wade, Joe Johnson, Derrick Rose, Devin Harris, Jameer Nelson)