The 2023 NBA trade deadline brought a flurry of player movement, but many of the players headed to familiar destinations. A handful of deals reunited players with teams they played for previously, resurfacing nostalgia and some interesting history about how those relationships ended the first time.
D'Angelo Russell getting dealt back to the Los Angeles Lakers, Spencer Dinwiddie returning to the Brooklyn Nets and John Wall reuniting with the Houston Rockets are just a few of the homecomings from this year's trade deadline.
It's too soon to tell whether these trades will be fortuitous for the players and teams involved, or whether the players even wanted to return to those teams.