don’t think you can trade those guys back to PIT bc the CBA with retaining on players you had less than a calendar year prior

I think this is a joke. That's a lot of wheeling and dealing.

It’s called Liquidating lol

Sure, but when one of the first trades is trading two guys back to a team that gleefully traded them away about 4 months ago, it falls apart.

It further falls into insanity when looking at the trades as a whole. There were 17 trades last deadline. You have 12 here.

Finally, each team has 3 retention slots. You've used 7.

So evidence points to this being a joke.