The 3 p.m. ET deadline was a moment in time, but this 2025 version qualified as a “trade week” at least, almost as a “trade season” if we look back to Dec. 15 when Thomas Bryant moved from Miami to Indiana and Dennis Schröder went from Brooklyn to Golden State.

During the week leading up to the NBA’s trade deadline the league just dives as deeply as possible into transactional chaos. It can be a bit funny in the moment, sure. Seeing the Suns players react to the Luka trade, for example, doesn’t seem like a particularly meaningful or harmful moment.

The final numbers from trade-deadline time: no fewer than eight current and past All-Stars, some of them recent All-NBA selections, some among the league’s highest scorers and even three Olympic gold medalists,

The Los Angeles Lakers made multiple blockbuster trades at the trade deadline this season, adding some real talent for the rest of this season and the future. T

The Los Angeles Lakers came away as the winner of the 2025 NBA trade deadline by a wide margin, somehow managing to pull off the most shocking trade in league history when they dealt a package centered around Anthony Davis to the Dallas Mavericks for Luka Dončić early Sunday morning.

Luka Doncic is set to make his Los Angeles Lakers debut in the coming days. Mat Issa explores how the superstar will fit in his new home.