The youngest players traded in NBA history
You’ve heard it countless times: the NBA is a business. However, some players experience this aspect earlier than others, often finding themselves involved in trades, sometimes merely as salary cap fillers, early in their careers.
Below, you can see a list of the youngest players ever to be traded in the NBA. (For this exercise, we only included players who had already made their NBA debut when the deals went down).
Maciej Lampe: 18 years, 334 days
Traded from New York to Phoenix in 2004
Derrick Favors: 19 years, 223 days
Traded from Brooklyn to Utah in 2011
Noah Vonleh: 19 years, 305 days
Traded from Charlotte to Portland in 2015
Keon Johnson: 19 years, 331 days
Traded from LA Clippers to Portland in 2015
Maciej Lampe: 19 years, 350 days
Traded from Phoenix to New Orleans/Oklahoma City in 2005
Javaris Crittenton: 20 years, 32 days
Traded from LA Lakers to Memphis in 2008
RJ Hampton: 20 years, 46 days
Traded from Denver to Orlando in 2021
Bill Willoughby: 20 years, 116 days
Traded from Atlanta to Buffalo in 1977
Jalen Lecque: 20 years, 126 days
Traded from Phoenix to Oklahoma City in 2020
Tony Wroten: 20 years, 131 days
Traded from Memphis to Philadelphia in 2013
Zaza Pachulia: 20 years, 134 days
Traded from Orlando to Milwaukee in 2004
Jalen Lecque: 20 years, 135 days
Traded from Oklahoma City to Indiana in 2020
Diamond Stone: 20 years, 146 days
Traded from LA Clippers to Atlanta in 2017
Jeremy Lamb: 20 years, 150 days
Traded from Houston to Oklahoma City in 2012
Martynas Andriuskevicius: 20 years, 159 days
Traded from Cleveland to Chicago in 2006
Tyler Ennis: 20 years, 179 days
Traded from Phoenix to Milwaukee in 2015
Marko Milic: 20 years, 198 days
Traded from Philadelphia to Phoenix in 1997
Sasha Pavlovic: 20 years, 221 days
Traded from Charlotte to Cleveland in 2004
Tobias Harris: 20 years, 221 days
Traded from Milwaukee to Orlando in 2013
