from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,

What still remains to shake out around the league is the rental trade market. It’s as if everyone is just waiting for Sunday and Monday at this point to move on rentals.

"No one wants to blink yet," said one Eastern Conference team executive Tuesday.

The buyers and the sellers appear to still have a different price in mind for rentals, which perhaps is explained by an awfully deep draft in June. These picks mean more than usual. No one wants to give these picks away easily.

"You make offers and the answer is that it’s not enough right now," one Eastern Conference buyer told ESPN.com Tuesday. "Everyone just seems to be waiting each other out. Historically, stuff has happened earlier but it doesn’t look that way now."

Part of the problem is that the only rental deal done so far, Feb. 15 by Nashville and Toronto, really can’t serve as a price-setting trade.

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