{"id":127836,"date":"2025-06-27T02:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T02:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127836\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T02:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T02:57:18","slug":"2025-nba-draft-trade-tracker-latest-deals-news-as-lakers-move-up-twice-in-second-round-suns-acquire-big-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127836\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 NBA Draft trade tracker: Latest deals, news as Lakers move up twice in second round, Suns acquire big man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"mark-williams-getty-1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mark-williams-getty-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/2025-nba-draft-order-full-list-of-every-second-round-pick-as-selection-process-continues-thursday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2025 NBA Draft<\/a> kicked is officially in the books, and there were plenty of surprises along the way. NBA teams did not wait until draft night to start making trades, however. Multiple All-Stars were dealt prior to Wednesday&#8217;s first round, as the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/HOU\/houston-rockets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rockets<\/a> made the first blockbuster of the summer by acquiring <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/1231866\/kevin-durant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant<\/a> in a trade with the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/PHO\/phoenix-suns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suns<\/a>. The biggest move on Wednesday night saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/mark-williams-trade-grades-suns-revamp-frontcourt-on-draft-night-hornets-move-on-after-failed-lakers-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hornets trade center Mark Williams <\/a>to Phoenix.           <\/p>\n<p>The Suns made another deal Thursday by acquiring a second-round pick from the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/BKN\/brooklyn-nets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>. Phoenix then leveraged their lower second-round picks to move up to No. 31 to take Rahseer Fleming, who some considered a first-round talent.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/BOS\/boston-celtics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics<\/a> were very active in the lead-up to the draft. Boston sent out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/jrue-holiday-trade-grades-celtics-address-issues-with-anfernee-simons-while-more-questions-for-trail-blazers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jrue Holiday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/kristaps-porzingis-trade-grades-celtics-get-b-for-avoiding-second-apron-hawks-take-win-now-swing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is<\/a> in two separate trades. Holiday is heading to the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/POR\/portland-trail-blazers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> with guard <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/2938080\/anfernee-simons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anfernee Simons<\/a> coming back to Boston. Porzi\u0146\u0123is, meanwhile, will be joining <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/2938032\/trae-young\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Young<\/a> on the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/ATL\/atlanta-hawks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawks<\/a> as the Celtics saved some significant money with the big man landing in Atlanta.           <\/p>\n<p>The Durant deal impacted Wednesday&#8217;s first round, with the Suns selecting Duke center Khaman Maluach with the No. 10 overall pick from Houston (a pick that originally belonged to Phoenix). The Nets &#8212; who were also involved in the Porzi\u0146\u0123is deal &#8212; made five first-round picks on Wednesday.           <\/p>\n<p>More deals went down during the second round on Thursday. Here&#8217;s a rundown of every deal that happened during the first and second rounds of the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>           2025 NBA Draft trade tracker           <\/p>\n<p>(Note: Some trades are reported and not yet official)           <\/p>\n<p>       June 26                  June 25                      June 24                      June 23                      June 22                      June 17           <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The 2025 NBA Draft kicked is officially in the books, and there were plenty of surprises&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4329,208,7,75,247,473,329,7046,149,1195,499,194,126,861,2771,2038,2289,938,871,150,1011,177,6,12,470,179,472,471,477,1020,474,494,427,10757,468],"class_list":{"0":"post-127836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-anfernee-simons","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-charlotte-hornets","14":"tag-chicago-bulls","15":"tag-cj-mccollum","16":"tag-dallas-mavericks","17":"tag-dillon-brooks","18":"tag-georges-niang","19":"tag-houston-rockets","20":"tag-indiana-pacers","21":"tag-jalen-green","22":"tag-jordan-poole","23":"tag-jrue-holiday","24":"tag-kelly-olynyk","25":"tag-kevin-durant","26":"tag-kristaps-porzingis","27":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","28":"tag-mark-williams","29":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","30":"tag-nba","31":"tag-nba-draft","32":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","33":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","34":"tag-phoenix-suns","35":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","36":"tag-sacramento-kings","37":"tag-saddiq-bey","38":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","39":"tag-trae-young","40":"tag-utah-jazz","41":"tag-vasilije-micic","42":"tag-washington-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}