Trade rumor rankings: Damian Lillard, Donovan Mitchell and more

Despite it being the dead of summer and basketball being fully on break, the NBA trade rumor machine does not stop.

Especially not with the trade requests of future Hall-of-Famers like Damian Lillard and James Harden still hanging in the balance. We might not be close to a trade for either but both are still situations that must be monitored for the foreseeable future.

Today, we’re back with another edition of our trade rumors ranking series, in which we rank the five players who have appeared most often on our trade page over the past week.

Let’s jump right into it.