The NFL trade market significantly differs from the NBA, where trading star players for multiple first-round picks is common. Unlike the NBA's flexible contract structures, NFL contracts often include dead money which complicates trading. NFL teams can only trade draft picks within three cycles, hindering long-term planning. Timing affects trade prices, particularly the difference between teams unwilling to negotiate and those eager to move players. This context illustrates the complexity and constraints present in NFL transactions compared to their NBA counterparts.
Trading a star for five first-round picks feels ho-hum. Heck, trading a star for just one first-round pick is wild these days.
Teams in the NFL can trade picks only within the next three draft cycles, keeping them from making the sort of long-term moves that NBA teams are happy to make.
The structure of NBA contracts makes them easier to deal than their NFL counterparts, where dead money can make a contract all but untradable.
The price to blow away a team that doesn't want to trade away a player is far different from the price when a team wants to get rid of a player at all costs.
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