Ben Tiemeyer

Oct 22, 2026, 07:00 AM ET

Have you ever wanted to build your own projected NBA trade, share it with a friend and have your friend approve -- or deny -- it? Well, now you can do that with thousands of "friends" on ESPN Digital.

ESPN Analytics is unveiling its new NBA Trade Lab , an interactive web application for fans to build, save and vote on mock trades. The tool includes several new features that differentiate it from ESPN's NBA trade machine , including:

• Trade builder : Build, validate and save your own trades in accordance with all current collective bargaining agreement (CBA) rules for other users to vote on. Can you build the perfectly balanced trade that fans of the teams involved would accept?

• Trade swiper : Act as the general manager of your favorite team by voting on trades submitted by other users that involve that team.…