It’s that time of year again, NBA fans. The smell of transactions is in the air as the Feb. 6 trade deadline nears and executives ready their war rooms to figure out how to best help their teams. For some franchises that means finding a deal for that one extra piece that can take them over the top. For others, it means unloading a large salary to free up cap space or acquiring assets to help with a rebuild.

This year’s trade deadline is particularly interesting given the flurry of activity we saw this past offseason — lots of players signed lucrative deals — and the fact that the 2020 free-agent class is, shall we say, underwhelming. That means some teams may view a trade as their swiftest mode of acquiring a star player, but they also may be content waiting for much more exciting free agents in the summer of 2021.

There’s a clear divide this season in both conferences between contenders and non-contenders, which gives us a pretty good idea of which teams will look to add players and which will look to unload. Surely there will be small trades here and there to shore up rotations, but here’s a look at the teams most likely to make a big move, divided into buyers and sellers.