First, sportswriters set Twitter ablaze with deals.
Source: Kevin Garnett agrees to trade, will go home to Minnesota for Thaddeus Young.
— David Aldridge (@daldridgetnt) February 19, 2015
The Suns and Heat have agreed to a Goran Dragic deal. It's happening
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) February 19, 2015
Sources: As part of Brandon Knight trade, Milwaukee gets Michael Carter-Williams, Tyler Ennis and Miles Plumlee.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) February 19, 2015
And it was too much for NBA Twitter to handle.
Trade deadline update: pic.twitter.com/GZZ2pWIKcA
— Zach Harper (@talkhoops) February 19, 2015
#NBATradeDeadline's got basketball twitter like pic.twitter.com/FbvPRYSgjJ
— Sam Laird (@samcmlaird) February 19, 2015
woj breaking down the trade deadline to a bunch of fans: pic.twitter.com/KOqjkdKLsn
— alex (@steven_lebron) February 19, 2015
Even — especially? — NBA *PLAYERS* were confused as hell.
Just woke up from my nap a #Piston #DETROITBASKETBALL!!!
— Reggie Jackson (@rjOKCson_15) February 19, 2015
Someone tell me what's going on please help
— Joel-Hans Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) February 19, 2015
Man this trade deadline is bananas !!!!
— shabazz muhammad (@ShabazzMuhammad) February 19, 2015
The media had a little freakout session, too.
CO-SIGN RT @si_nba: GAH RT @CBSSportsNBA: RIGHT THERE WITH YOU RT @SBNationNBA: WE DON’T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 19, 2015
Isaiah Thomas was just traded to the Sixers (via @ESPNSteinLine) and Celtics (via @WojYahooNBA) at the same time. WE’RE SPLITTING THE ATOM!
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 19, 2015
When even Woj is at a loss ...
.@WojYahooNBA has best summary of Trade Deadline Day: pic.twitter.com/Y708hMpcs7
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) February 19, 2015
The dust settled, and we tried to make sense of it all.
The details on every trade today, as best we know them. http://t.co/e9jcyHJCKe pic.twitter.com/8ix8UEid4s
— SB Nation NBA (@SBNationNBA) February 19, 2015
But mostly we just made jokes.
The 76ers wikipedia page has been updated. #NBATradeDeadline pic.twitter.com/Fe8h13NoZH
— NBC Sports Network (@NBCSN) February 19, 2015
Thanks for the idea, @SethPartnow pic.twitter.com/Et6twtIKiw
— Steve McPherson (@steventurous) February 19, 2015
In the end, everyone had fun online. And that's what matters.
I am literally high off of this trade deadline,.
— Bethlehem Shoals (@freedarko) February 19, 2015
That was the greatest thing that's ever happened to my timeline.
— Tom Ziller (@teamziller) February 19, 2015
Maybe one day we'll figure out what the heck actually happened.
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