A: The beauty of the NBA personnel calendar is that it almost never ends. So immediately, from the trading deadline, teams now turn their attention to the March 1 buyout deadline. Actually, even that is not a deadline. Basically, any player who has been in the NBA this season must be waived by March 1 in order to be playoff eligible for another team. That doesn't mean such a player has to sign by March 1 elsewhere, only that he is waived by that date. Such players then can be signed any time up until the final day of the regular season to be eligible for a playoff roster. In fact, players who have not been in the NBA this season (Michael Beasley alert!) can be signed any time prior to the end of the regular season to be playoff eligible. So what happens next is that players who are out of their team's rotation or are on teams out of playoff contention can negotiate a settlement on the balance of their contracts to be set free. Depending on the relationship between player and team, that can be a relatively smooth process or one that goes down to that March 1 deadline (there even have been cases where the relationship is so contentious that teams purposely have waited until after March 1 to buy out such a player in order to deny that player playoff eligibility). The most likely place to start when considering those available is to look at players who were dealt at the trading deadline merely as salary-cap fits. That could/should have players such as Steve Novak and Lance Stephenson available soon enough. Then there are the courtesy buyouts of veterans who have been good soldiers but either have fallen out of their team's rotation (David Lee) or whose teams have fallen out of playoff contention (Joe Johnson). In other words, for all that did or did not happen Thursday, there still is another leg of the personnel process to be visited.