Notice at the trade deadline, the teams at the top of this ranking are relatively quiet with their moves. Their front offices already did the work, now everyone is trying to catch them. 1. Oklahoma City Thunder (39-9,

Post-trade deadline, all eyes are on the Los Angeles Lakers . Not only have they won 12 of their last 14 games, climbing to fourth place in the Western Conference, but they added one of the top-three players in the league in Luka Doncic to their roster.

It's strange having the NBA trade deadline so close to the All-Star break. The mid-season break provides a natural checkpoint to take stock of where every team sits, and yet -- especially given the monumental activity around this year's deadline in both quantity and quality of players -- a lot of teams will look vastly different over the final two months of the season.