The list of potential trade candidates for the 2024 NBA offseason isn't a short one.

Perhaps chief among these candidates, though, are a select group of players who fell woefully short of expectations this past season.

That's why we're giving the trade-machine treatment to the following four players. Each came into the campaign with sizable salaries, starting gigs and all of the pressure to perform that comes along with them. Each subsequently fell so short of expectations that they may have played their way out of their current digs.

Kings Ship Out Kevin Huerter

Chicago Bulls receive: Kevin Huerter, two 2025 second-round picks (via SAC and POR) and a 2026 first-round pick (top-five-protected)

Sacramento Kings receive: Alex Caruso and Jevon Carter

Huerter played a pivotal role in Sacramento's 2022-23 breakout, but he couldn't recreate that success this season. This wound up as a borderline nightmare campaign for the 6'7" swingman, and not only because it ended early due to shoulder surgery.

Even before the ailment, very little worked for him. His shooting rates backtracked in a big way from both the field (from 48.5 to 44.3) and three-point land (40.2 to 36.1). After averaging a career-high 15.2 points last season, his scoring output sank lower than it'd been since his rookie year (10.2). He briefly lost his starting spot and wound up logging fewer minutes than ever (24.4).

The Kings may not want to place a $16.8 million wager on Huerter's chances of bouncing back next season. Especially not if they could convince the shooting-starved Bulls to take this offer.

Caruso could be the point-of-attack stopper Sacramento has needed, and his low-maintenance offense would be easy to fit around De'Aaron Fox, Domantas Sabonis and Keegan Murray. Caruso could give both the defense more resistance and the offense extra oomph.

Carter would mainly be a throw-in for the Kings, but his arrival could make it easier for Sacramento to shop Davion Mitchell in a separate swap.

Chicago, meanwhile, could see plenty of value in adding a shooter—particularly one young enough to grow alongside Coby White and Ayo Dosunmu—and even more in the incoming draft picks. While the Bulls previously sought multiple firsts for Caruso, that could be tricky to get with just a year left on his contract. A future first and two seconds might be the best they can do for the 30-year-old role player.

Wizards Pay a Price to Subtract Jordan Poole

Utah Jazz receive: Jordan Poole, a 2025 second-round pick, a 2026 second-round pick (via CHI) and a 2028 first-round pick swap (top-four-protected)

Washington Wizards receive: John Collins

Three players made 30-plus starts this season and wound up producing negative win shares. Two were rookie guards Scoot Henderson (minus-1.7) and Keyonte George (minus-0.3). Sandwiched between them was Poole (minus-0.6), who came into the campaign with a chance to establish himself as a building block for the Wizards and exited it as little more than a massive strain on their salary-cap situation.

It was obvious pretty early that he probably wasn't a long-term keeper for Washington. The campaign wasn't even a month old before his name popped up in trade rumors. His lowlight-reel plays were tough to stomach, and his season-long stats weren't much better: 17.4 points on 41.3/32.6/87.7 shooting.

If his contract, which has another three years and $95.5 million left on it, isn't the league's worst, it's at least in that conversation. Unloading it, then, would be costly, but this might work. Collins is himself overpaid, and while his surface numbers seem fine (15.1 points and 8.5 rebounds), they lack substance. The Jazz were not a good team this season, yet they were still noticeably worse with him (minus-7.5 net rating) than they were without (minus-2.1).

Utah, which has been in asset-accumulation mode for nearly two full years now, could see this as another opportunity to fill up the coffers. It wouldn't have to play Poole unless it wanted to, as he could easily be buried on the bench behind George, Collin Sexton and Jordan Clarkson. Or, if the Jazz were bullish on their chances of reviving Poole, they might see him as their new spark plug and use his arrival as a motivation to flip Clarkson for additional assets.

As brutal as this season was for Poole, he doesn't have to be a lost cause. He has filled an important role on an NBA champion before and hasn't even celebrated his 25th birthday yet. He has a knack for scoring and flashes shifty shot-creation, so if he could ever harness his shot selection and decision-making, he could be helpful yet.

The Wizards, meanwhile, would still do well to get out of Poole's contract without coughing up a first-round pick, even if that swap looms as a not insignificant trade cost. Plus, they'd get more stability with Collins, who doesn't often stray outside of his lane. He is a flawed defender and objectively overpaid, but he's still a steady finisher and rebounder.

Bulls End the Zach LaVine Era

Orlando Magic receive: Zach LaVine

Chicago Bulls receive: Markelle Fultz (sign-and-trade), Moritz Wagner and a 2024 second-round pick

LaVine spent the previous four seasons establishing himself as one of the league's most consistent contributors on the offensive end. He was one of only five players to average 25 points, four assists and 2.5 three-pointers in each of those campaigns, a distinction shared with Luka Dončić, Kyrie Irving, Damian Lillard and Donovan Mitchell.

That consistency avoided LaVine throughout his 2023-24 campaign to forget. When he wasn't missing time with a foot injury—which eventually forced him under the knife—he was falling shy of his normal production by quantity (19.5 points and 3.9 assists) and quality (57.8 true shooting percentage, his worst rate in four seasons).

The Bulls couldn't find a taker for LaVine ahead of the trade deadline, but they "will look to trade [him] again this offseason," per K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago. Perhaps they'll find an interested trade partner in the Magic, who could be an offensive boost away from cracking the league's elite ranks.

Orlando's third-ranked defense fueled its ascension this season, but its growth potential will be capped until its 22nd-ranked offense gets upgraded. A healthy LaVine would provide that lift, as he can create for himself or his teammates, shred nets from distance or attack off the bounce. He'd pull heat away from Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner and ideally help bring out their best.

If the Magic, who have the league's fourth-youngest roster, don't want to empty their asset collection just yet, this could be their chance to add a potential difference-maker at a discount. Even LaVine's overpriced pact wouldn't do too much damage with Banchero, Wagner and Jalen Suggs still having time left on their rookie deals.

As for Chicago, the primary draw would be getting out out of LaVine's contract, but it could see Fultz as a defense-first fit with Coby White. It could also use Moritz Wagner's scoring punch off the pine. And while a single second-round pick is hardly a needle-mover, at least the Bulls could say they were able to fetch a draft asset in a LaVine deal.

Warriors Make a Splash with Andrew Wiggins Deal

New Orleans Pelicans receive: Andrew Wiggins, Moses Moody, Kevon Looney, a 2025 first-round pick and a 2027 first-round pick (top-three-protected)

Golden State Warriors receive: Brandon Ingram

While it's true that Wiggins improved over the course of this campaign, that kind of just speaks to how much of a letdown it was. His post-All-Star averages were only 14.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.7 assists, not exactly the numbers the Warriors needed from someone who served as Stephen Curry's sidekick the last time they embarked on a championship run.

All told, Wiggins averaged the fewest points (13.2), assists (1.7), steals (0.6), blocks (0.6) and minutes (27) of any of his four full seasons with the team. His 45.3 field-goal percentage and 35.8 three-point percentage were both the worst of this stretch, too. And his minus-2.5 box plus/minus was actually the second-worst of his entire career.

He was supposed to be the Dubs' difference-maker, but all he did was put this club severely in the red. Among Warriors rotation regulars, Wiggins' minus-6.7 net differential was easily the worst.

Golden State can't simply cross its fingers and hope he turns things around. Not when the clock is already ticking for the 36-year-old Curry. Maybe that motivates the Warriors, then, to swing for the fences and part with all of the above to add Ingram, whose ability to create offense for himself and others would be massive gets in Golden State.

Curry desperately needs someone who can consistently pull defensive attention away, and Ingram has that ability. The 26-year-old has gone three consecutive seasons of averaging better than 20 points and five assists per outing. Only 15 others can claim the same, and they're mostly household names, even for NBA casuals.

As for New Orleans, an early exit from this postseason could force the Pelicans to consider doing something different. The Pels might think they've taken the Ingram-Zion Williamson tandem as far as it can go, in which case they could entertain the idea of flipping Ingram for three plug-and-play rotation pieces and two future firsts to help them go star-searching in a separate deal.

Unless otherwise noted, statistics courtesy of Basketball Reference and NBA.com.

Zach Buckley covers the NBA for Bleacher Report. Follow him on X, @ZachBuckleyNBA.