Luke Ridnour was the equivalent of a relay baton for a week this summer, having been traded four times in seven days before the Raptors finally waived his non-guaranteed contract. The veteran guard endured a whirlwind similar to what the unheralded Scotty Hopson went through last summer, when he, too, was traded four times before being released.
Still, Ridnour is in a class by himself when it comes to having gone through so many swaps in such a compressed time frame, and while he’s the only player to have been traded more than twice since the start of last season, plenty of others have endured multiple trades this year. Ridnour is one of 14 players to have been traded at least two times since the beginning of the 2014/15 regular season, and one of six such players who have since been released, become free agents, or signed with other teams. Zoran Dragic joined that group Monday, when the Celtics released him shortly after acquiring him from the Heat, who had traded with the Suns for him at the February deadline.
See the entire list of players traded multiple times since the beginning of this past season:
Traded four times
- Luke Ridnour (Magic to Grizzlies, Grizzlies to Hornets, Hornets to Thunder, Thunder to Raptors) — waived by Raptors, now free agent
Traded twice
- Matt Barnes (Clippers to Hornets, Hornets to Grizzlies)
- Steve Blake (Trail Blazers to Nets, Nets to Pistons)
- Reggie Bullock (Clippers to Suns, Suns to Pistons)
- Zoran Dragic (Suns to Heat, Heat to Celtics) — now on waivers from Celtics
- Danny Granger (Heat to Suns, Suns to Pistons)
- Jameer Nelson (Mavericks to Celtics, Celtics to Nuggets)
- Alexey Shved (Sixers to Rockets, Rockets to Knicks) — contract expired, now playing overseas
- Pablo Prigioni (Knicks to Rockets, Rockets to Nuggets) — waived by Nuggets, now playing with Clippers
- Tayshaun Prince (Grizzlies to Celtics, Celtics to Pistons) — contract expired, now free agent
- Austin Rivers (Pelicans to Celtics, Celtics to Clippers)
- Jason Thompson (Kings to Sixers, Sixers to Warriors)
- Gerald Wallace (Celtics to Warriors, Warriors to Sixers)
- Brandan Wright (Mavericks to Celtics, Celtics to Suns) — contract expired, now playing with Grizzlies