With the most hyped-up draft class of the past decade looming over the start of the 2013-14 NBA regular season, it is time to look at some of the most likely trade victims of this season full of tanking.

A handful of teams are essentially forfeiting competing for a playoff spot in the interest of a high pick in June, while many others are trying to make a playoff push despite being woefully undermanned. This season will be full of trade rumors and more than likely, a very busy trade deadline. Here is a list of the 10 most likely players to be traded this season:

1. Greg Monroe, Detroit Pistons - Josh Smith, Andre Drummond and Greg Monroe sharing a frontcourt.. Really? General Manager Joe Dumars spent approximately $96 million on Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva in 2009. Both are still on their original contracts and neither started a game last season. This is a GM clearly accustomed to flying without a flight path.

Josh Smith has played small forward before. He did it when he was younger, quicker, and more athletic (if that’s possible). His poor shooting limited his effectiveness and was eventually moved back to power forward where he belongs.

Drummond is a tremendous athlete who many compare to a likeable version of Dwight Howard.

Monroe is an old school power forward who can play with both his back to the basket and facing up. All three are excellent rebounders, entertaining, and starting caliber players in the NBA. However, only two are signed beyond this season, and they are elite defenders. This leaves Monroe, the most polished offensively of the three as Dumars’ primary trade asset. Dumars clearly isn’t afraid to swing for the fences, so I could see a trade with the Raptors for Rudy Gay here.

2. Goran Dragic, Phoenix Suns - While many have focused on Dragic’s favorite target last season, Marcin Gortat, as the main trade chip on this team who has already been dealt to the Wizards; others noticed that the Suns just traded for 23-year-old “Mini-LeBron,” Eric Bledose, as their point guard of the future. Although the Suns insist the backcourt is safe for now, Dragic is too valuable an asset to waste when your goal is to tank the season in hopes of a great prospect. Smart money says the Spurs looks to grab Dragic as their third guard of the future as Manu Ginobili plays his last few meaningful minutes in the NBA.

3. Eric Gordon, New Orleans Pelicans; Danny Granger, Indiana Pacers - Since Gordon’s free agency period two summers ago, a trade has been discussed sending Gordon to the Indiana Pacers for Danny Granger. Gordon is an Indiana native and would fit fantastically next to Paul George as a ball handler and scorer. Granger, who has been injured during George’s ascension to stardom is a native of New Orleans and would fill the last spot in the Pelicans' starting five by giving them a versatile go-to scorer. The trade is too perfect not to happen if both are healthy if the Pacers are prepared to pay the tax.

4. Rudy Gay, Toronto Raptors - The most talked about trade piece in the NBA, Gay is as likely to be traded this season as any other big name player. The unfortunate part is that the team getting him will only be paying pennies on the dollar. While Rudy Gay has long been overrated and one dimensional, only a small number of players have his type of athleticism and shot-making ability in this league, and even fewer can theoretically match-up with LeBron James.

5. DeMar Derozan, Toronto Raptors - Just 24 and coming off a season in which he set career highs in points, rebounds, assists and three-point percentage (admittedly only 28 percent). With the most hyped Canadian basketball player of all-time headlining the NBA draft, Toronto would be crazy not to do everything in their power to put themselves in the best position to select Toronto native and admitted Raptors' fan, Andrew Wiggins. While Rudy Gay has an enormous contract and will likely garner very few, if any, useable assets for Toronto, they would be smart to try to clear out the glut of shooting guard/small forwards on the roster by trading their most valuable one. I could see the Mavericks or Hawks biting on his potential. Plus, how fun would a Vince Carter reunion half-season be in Toronto?

6. Pau Gasol, Los Angeles Lakers - Three seasons ago, Pau Gasol was considered one of the top-10 players in the NBA, was a perennial All-Star, and made his third consecutive appearance on the All-NBA team, this time as a part of the Second Team. Then the Lakers started losing while he suffered major injuries in back-to-back seasons. Given the high likelihood that the Lakers are terrible this season, they will have no choice but trade Gasol’s high priced expiring contract rather than letting him walk away in free agency. The Lakers will not want to take back any salary beyond this season in deals for either Gasol or Steve Nash. 

7. Al Horford, Atlanta Hawks - Did anyone notice that the Hawks got another starting power forward rather than a center to play next to Al Horford? Since his rookie season in the NBA, Horford has played out of position and spent too much effort trying to body up the opposing teams biggest players. While this Hawks somehow made the playoffs last season, this year’s version has virtually no scoring outside of the starting lineup and is worse defensively after losing shot blocking specialist, Josh Smith. Rather than continuing this slow rebuild to mediocrity, the Hawks would be smart to hit the reset button and trade one of the few assets available this season that could get a lottery bound team to give up their pick. 

8. LaMarcus Aldridge, Portland Trail Blazers - The only player to essentialy request a trade and then take it back this offseason is the player most likely to be traded if his team struggles this season. The Blazers are much improved, but if they sputter into the All-Star break, every team will be calling them to get their hands on one of the best power forwards in the NBA. 

9. Wilson Chandler, Denver Nuggets - The Denver Nuggets won 57 games last season... they won’t this season. After losing their two best perimeter defenders in Andre Iguodala and Corey Brewer, the team is left with Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari at small forward. Given that this team has approximately zero above average defenders on it, they’re going to lose and they’re going to lose a lot. With the 25-year-old Gallinari having three years and over $30 million left on his contract, Chandler’s $20 million (only $15 million guaranteed) would be much easier to move. Still only 26 and an extremely effective scorer, Chandler shot a career high from the three-point line last season at over 41 percent. He is an ideal fit with the Timberwolves to space the floor for Ricky Rubio and could be easily acquired for promising albatross, Derrick Williams.

10. Rajon Rondo, Boston Celtics - Rondo is the last remaining member of the championship team on the Celtics and he is also the only player who would be a guaranteed starter on teams throughout the league. When healthy, he is a top-15 player in the NBA and a top-five point guard. Coming off an ACL injury, you can be assured that Rondo will stay on this team long enough to get him on the court and show that he’s healthy.