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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.

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.

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NBA trade deadline. It’s NBA trade deadline day. The action really kicked off two months before Feb. 6, with the Brooklyn Nets sending Dennis Schröder to the Golden State Warriors, and we’ve been dishing out trade grades on the most notable moves ever since.

The Nuggets should have made a move at the 2025 NBA trade deadline but they instead did nothing, which could hurt them in the end.

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.