Will the Pistons continue playing the long game, preferring instead to stand pat with the trade deadline coming up?

With the benefit of hindsight, let's examine the 2024 deadline and see how good, bad or unnecessary those moves really were.

The Trail Blazers would likely want to make room to have more minutes for Donovan Clingan, who they recently selected early in the 2024 NBA Draft. For the Lakers, meanwhile, Ayton could have at least some tangible valuable as a player who has postseason experience and tremendous size on the inside.

The following list uses just two words to describe each franchise: buyer, seller, or something in between. Atlanta Hawks: Center Shopping1 of 8 The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

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.