Biggest winners/losers of 2023 trade deadline?

[dc]

Mavs were big winners. Dramatically increased their title shot w/o giving up a motherlode of assets. Suns are also winners going all in on a title as well, but they definitely gave up an eyewatering amount of assets.

Everybody else in comparison is pretty meh. Nets you can obviously call losers, but they had no choice but to blow it all up and at least they got assets back.

[dhsilv2]

The Raptors willingly signing up to be an unimpactful treadmill team with almost no young players or decent picks to continue to build around moving forward is just baffling. I'm a Blazers fan so I can speak from experience this is definitely not where you want to be as a franchise.

Maybe the offers for OG Anunoby out there weren't as hot as we were lead to believe, but also not trading Fred Vanvleet who's just going to walk for nothing in the offseason was a real head-scratcher.

How could they trade either after upgrading at center and offering a 2024 first? They have to be playing to make the playoffs this and next year given that...

[AussieCeltic]

Winners: Lakers, Clippers, Suns

Neutral: Bucks, Hawks, Pistons, Celtics, Nets, Sixers, Warriors, Wolves, Mavs, Nuggets, Knicks, Magic, Grizz, OKC, Spurs, Rockets

Losers: Blazers, Hornets, Raptors, Jazz

Honestly, I thought a lot of the trades were pretty fair and teams achieved what they wanted. Only a few were clear winners in my eyes and only some didn’t get enough.

[Ito]

Lakers lost.. they got worse unless they expectin Bron to drop 30+ every game

What the heck are you smoking?

sum good good but that's not the point.. how everything shapin out to be they could have just traded Westbrook, Pat Bev and bryant and whatever they was asking for n gotten kyrie and one of their bigs and called it a season

You telling me the Lakers missed out on kyrie because of reeves?? But everyone out here gassin that they got d Lo instead of Westbrook.. doesn't make sense

[spanishninja]

Winners: Lakers, Clippers, Suns

Neutral: Bucks, Hawks, Pistons, Celtics, Nets, Sixers, Warriors, Wolves, Mavs, Nuggets, Knicks, Magic, Grizz, OKC, Spurs, Rockets

Losers: Blazers, Hornets, Raptors, Jazz

Honestly, I thought a lot of the trades were pretty fair and teams achieved what they wanted. Only a few were clear winners in my eyes and only some didn’t get enough.

yeah it looks like the Pacific is back to being the best division. the defending champs are the ones in the "worst" shame, and even they got GP2 back.

[Sunlight]

WTF is Bulls doing? Should fire their GM immediately.

[KGtabake]

WINNERS: WEST
LOSERS: EAST

Just when conferences finally become equal for the first time in a while, Durant and Irving make star-power disbalance once again with also two LA teams also both very improve for playoff efforts by several small moves, unlike any EC contenders apart from the Bucks.

On behalf of the eastern conference:
Kyrie is your problem now. **** his star power.
Dinwiddie any day, all day. I knew that since '19 but Brooklyn fans weren't hearing it back then.

[nbafan38]

I'd say Lebron is a loser, although the lakers as a team got better they didn't make any moves that move the needle for the next year or two and the rest of the west got way better.

[nbafan38]

Mavs were big winners. Dramatically increased their title shot w/o giving up a motherlode of assets. Suns are also winners going all in on a title as well, but they definitely gave up an eyewatering amount of assets.

Everybody else in comparison is pretty meh. Nets you can obviously call losers, but they had no choice but to blow it all up and at least they got assets back.

I would switch the order of Suns and Mavs, getting KD is way more valuable than getting Kyrie. Plus KD is under contract for 3.5 years.

[G R E Y]

I feel bad for Patty and LMA. They joined a then-stacked Nets team as key additions to shore up for a deep run but LMA had a heart issue resurface (he's healthy now, thank goodness), and Patty is such a good team mate that he'll be needed to be a glue guy, a stabilizing force through all the changes.

Maybe Patty gets bought out? He's a high quality person and will serve any team well.

[brutalitops]

Weird how the lakers were told to give both picks for turner/Hield, But they get better, trade only one pick and save money and get a potentially way deeper squad

[hauntedcomputer]

Man, I was away from internet for 24 hours and I come back and it's like

[BuddyBuckets]

Pels quietly had a win. Shedding Devonte was a must-do and getting back a decent bench 2-way wing for the playoffs push is good return.

[Jadoogar]

Losers - raptors, bulls, blazers, pelicans. All are content riding the treadmill it seems

Winners - Lakers, suns, clippers. All three got better and addressed weaknesses

Undecided
Nuggets - love Thomas Bryant move, hate dumping Bones for nothing

Nets - pretty good return for both kyrie and KD but just took themselves out of contention

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[tarantism]

Suns are the clear winners, for obvious reasons.

Warriors are losers to me. Sure GP2 is an upgrade to Wiseman but he makes too much money. Not to mention that GSW did nothing to catch the teams above them and a few teams passed them. These guys are done.

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[Harry Garris]

The Raptors willingly signing up to be an unimpactful treadmill team with almost no young players or decent picks to continue to build around moving forward is just baffling. I'm a Blazers fan so I can speak from experience this is definitely not where you want to be as a franchise.

Maybe the offers for OG Anunoby out there weren't as hot as we were lead to believe, but also not trading Fred Vanvleet who's just going to walk for nothing in the offseason was a real head-scratcher.

How could they trade either after upgrading at center and offering a 2024 first? They have to be playing to make the playoffs this and next year given that...

Upgrading at center? I mean yeah they kinda did that but also center is by far their deepest position on the roster and by getting Poeltl they're effectively cutting Achiuwa out of the rotation, who had been playing well lately. They have no depth at guard and did nothing to address it.

Not sure how this is a team that's making it out of the play-in tournament, and even if they do, should be a quick first round series regardless of who they face.

[Bucksmaniac]

For me the Bucks are losers. They really needed to get younger and they’re out of assets

Nets did good for themselves getting 5 picks from an aging phoenix squad & getting Bridges back

Toronto probably should’ve cashed in OG


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Technically they got younger in their main rotation, a likely fresh Jae Crowder in place of George Hill. Nwora was a solid negative so his younger age hardly matters. I thought age would be an issue too but look at how up-tempo they’ve been playing (and doing it successfully) lately.

[Marvin Martian]

Biggest loser is John Wall. He went on a podcast trash talking the Rockets and the Clips traded him back there lol

[mademan]

The Raptors willingly signing up to be an unimpactful treadmill team with almost no young players or decent picks to continue to build around moving forward is just baffling. I'm a Blazers fan so I can speak from experience this is definitely not where you want to be as a franchise.

Maybe the offers for OG Anunoby out there weren't as hot as we were lead to believe, but also not trading Fred Vanvleet who's just going to walk for nothing in the offseason was a real head-scratcher.

How could they trade either after upgrading at center and offering a 2024 first? They have to be playing to make the playoffs this and next year given that...

Upgrading at center? I mean yeah they kinda did that but also center is by far their deepest position on the roster and by getting Poeltl they're effectively cutting Achiuwa out of the rotation, who had been playing well lately. They have no depth at guard and did nothing to address it.

Not sure how this is a team that's making it out of the play-in tournament, and even if they do, should be a quick first round series regardless of who they face.

We have no C. I like Precious, but we have zero rim protection at the moment and no real size (Precious is 6'8). I dont like the move, but characterizing C as the deepest position on the roster is crazy. We have a lot of guys who play C, sure, but really only Koloko is an actual C and he sucks

[Dr Aki]

MOVED:
Russell Westbrook
Kendrick Nunn
Thomas Bryant
JTA
Damian Jones
Pat Bev
27’ FRP - Top 4 protected
4 second rounders

Gotta add PatBev to outgoing players