NBA trade deadline 2022: The winners (Nets AND Sixers) and losers (LeBron James)

Who won and lost?

Whew.

Have you caught your breath yet?

The 2022 NBA trade deadline was a frenzy before Thursday. And on the actual day when teams had to complete their deals? It got nuts.

The blockbuster we’ve all been buzzing about for weeks actually went down, with James Harden and Ben Simmons trading addresses. Before that? There was a Kings and Pacers shocker, the really good (!) Cleveland Cavaliers (!!) getting better (!!!), and more. The entire deadline period gets an A+ for drama alone, so thank you very much, NBA teams!

Let’s run through the winners and losers from a whole week of NBA transaction madness: