ESPN.com · Jul 22, 2025
All 30 NBA teams' biggest roster mistakes since 2020
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The NBA is famously a league of transactions. Teams must nail their trades, signings and draft picks to compete for the title, and fan interest in those dealings is often higher than in the games themselves.
Some of these transactions result in meteoric success. Just look at the past two NBA champions: The Oklahoma City Thunder and Boston Celtics traded for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Alex Caruso, Derrick White, Jrue Holiday, Al Horford, Kristaps Porzingis and draft picks that became Jalen Williams, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Other recent champions landed their MVPs with the No. 41 (Nikola Jokic) and No. 15 (Giannis Antetokounmpo) picks.