Is there anything that can be done to have a player stop blocking a trade? Or anything that the initiating team can do to make the player want to switch teams

If a player has a no trade clause I think they will block the trade if they are going to a team with a worse record. If its in the offseason I think they will block if its a team that had a worse record last season.

So all you can do is have them get better and have you get worse.

Also take this with a grain of salt. A lot of changes have gone on behind the scenes to the program.

I believe this is still the case!