You will notice some numbers in parentheses. Feel free to ignore them if you wish. Their presence indicates that the player or pick in question was eventually traded by Lombardi, and that subsequent trade will be found by seeking out the one indicated by the number in the parentheses (all the trades are numbered at the left-most column). For example, Patrick O’Sullivan was acquired by Lombardi in trade number one. The (31) after his name tells you that he was subsequently traded in trade number 31. If you go down to trade 31, you will see a (1) after O’Sullivan’s name. This allows you to track back and see where the just-traded asset was acquired.

I don’t know if I made that confusing enough, but I do find it useful to track what became of the assets Lombardi traded for. For example, you might notice that a pick in the Conroy trade was packaged with O’Sullivan (from the Demitra trade) to get Justin Williams. Demitra also netted us Trevor Lewis, and another Conroy pick got us Dwight King. So the sum of those parts is “Demitra and Conroy for Williams, Lewis and King.”