As the Knicks, the Nets and the Rangers limp through the start of the second half of their respective regular seasons, it\u2019s already getting to be that time to start considering how they \u2014 as well as the recently rolling Islanders \u2014 will approach the upcoming trade deadlines in their leagues.<\/p>\n
More immediate decisions must be made by the two local NBA franchises, with that deadline drawing near more rapidly, barely two weeks away on Feb.5.<\/p>\n
The NHL deadline is more than a month later on March 6, after the league takes a three-week break in February to allow its players and coaches to compete at the Winter Olympics in Milan.<\/p>\n
With that in mind, let\u2019s take a look at what followers of those four teams should be expecting as the trade market takes shape in the coming weeks:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Knicks, the Nets and the Rangers limp through the start of the second half of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[3039,6426,20012,52479,5,52269,52079,555,3328,1671,35,5190,5193,4,2541,36,43,336],"class_list":["post-421130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-rangers","tag-artemi-panarin","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-cameron-thomas","tag-hockey","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkrangers","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-rangers","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115937060219800986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}