Notice at the trade deadline, the teams at the top of this ranking are relatively quiet with their moves. Their front offices already did the work, now everyone is trying to catch them. 1. Oklahoma City Thunder (39-9,

The 2025 NBA trade deadline started in earnest with the trade bombshell that seemed so ludicrous, fans and players alike thought someone was playing a prank: Luka Dončić being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three-team deal that also included Anthony Davis going to the Dallas Mavericks.

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What happened with Bradley Beal and Luka Dončić at the NBA trade deadline could make both players and teams rethink how to approach no-trade clauses moving forward.

Post-trade deadline, all eyes are on the Los Angeles Lakers . Not only have they won 12 of their last 14 games, climbing to fourth place in the Western Conference, but they added one of the top-three players in the league in Luka Doncic to their roster.

We also had a Donatas Motiejūnas trade in 2016 get rescinded due to back issues. The Rockets traded him to Detroit, but the Pistons voided the deal. It was the second time these two teams were involved in a voided trade. The Pistons traded Sean Elliot to the Rockets for Robert Horry and Matt Bullard in 1994, but Elliot failed his physical.

The biggest miss for the Jazz at the NBA trade deadline is that they failed to get a return on vets like Jordan Clarkson and Collin Sexton.

With 26 of the league’s 30 teams making some kind of move ahead of the deadline, and heads spinning from Seattle to South Beach at the dizzying speed of transactions, it’s time to reset things, evaluate everyone’s work and rank every team’s trade deadline.