NBA trade deadline: Re-grading biggest deals from last two years, including moves from Warriors, Heat, Celtics

Let's take a look back at trade deadline deals from 2020 and 2021 with the benefit of hindsight

Nothing teaches you about regret quite like playing daily Fantasy sports. You debate between two players with the same salary for hours and finally decide on one, only to watch the other one go off for career highs across the board while the one you picked goes 0 for 12 from the field. You curse yourself and putter around the house, wondering what could have been.

Now imagine how excruciating it must be for the front office executives who actually make these deals in real life.

We in the NBA media love to pass judgment on trades as soon as they're made -- grades, winners and losers, analysis. With the 2022 NBA trade deadline just a few days away, we've already begun engaging in the yearly ritual of editorializing. It's the reason we cover the sport, to look at deals from every angle and try to decipher how things will play out, but the truth is we can't fully evaluate a deal until some time has passed.