How does NBA work? How can they just exchange players mid-season and still consider the same “team”?
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Most sports have the ability to trade players. This is allowed in their contracts and by the league. It allows both teams the ability to move a player from team to team so that each team can be more competitive overall. For example, what if a certain player gets injured? Well you may need a replacement, and there are only so many good players, maybe another team would swap with you and both teams can benefit.
There are rules around how this is done, and generally the most important one in the NBA is called the ‘trade deadline’ basically there is a day in the year in which all trades *must* be made before that day. This is generally a bit later than half of the season. Some players also have a ‘no-trade’ clause which prevents the team from trading them, without their approval (it can always be waived by the player for any reason and its common to waive it if the player wants to be traded)
This ensures that teams can’t just trade players like the game before the playoffs or any weird shenanigans
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