Status: Currently rostered by the Pelicans after he was traded by the Raptors. He is not able to sign with any team currently a team in the luxury tax apron. He is not currently considered a buyout candidate, per Jake Fischer.

Both the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks are among the teams in either the first or second apron following Thursday's NBA trade deadline, according

Simply put, the Mavericks are here because they traded away star Luka Doncic. They may have gotten All-Star Anthony Davis in return but losing Doncic makes them a worse team.

During the week leading up to the NBA’s trade deadline the league just dives as deeply as possible into transactional chaos. It can be a bit funny in the moment, sure. Seeing the Suns players react to the Luka trade, for example, doesn’t seem like a particularly meaningful or harmful moment.

We may have just lived through the most active trade deadline in NBA history, but it's not as though everyone participated equally. Four teams didn't make a single trade: the Nuggets, Magic, Trail Blazers and Timberwolves,

The Lakers’ acquisition of Luka Doncic was the biggest move of the week, even if plenty of other teams were also able to improve.

But the big trade for this season — you know the one I’m talking about — was a signal that the Lakers, and the NBA, are preparing and beginning to move on from him. Just not in the way you might think.