Perhaps they can’t find or acquire a superstar because there is an incredibly limited supply of superstars in the league and almost none of them are on the trade market. Jimmy Butler is a good player, but he’s a marginal all-star game backup, not a super star who will lead you to a title. They couldn’t trade for a…

Its almost entirely due to the “the concentration of elite talent.” There are only 5 players on the court at once. The best player on the court has a much larger marginal effect on the outcome then the best player on a football field, essentially always. Swapping JJ Watt or Aaron Rodgers onto a random bad NFL team…

WIN.

Yes, “sounds like a dumb trade made up as a a facetious joke.” That’s exactly what it was. I said I was being facetious. Somebody’s butt hurt about rooting for a crap team, oh boy.

I was being facetious. Sounds like the kind of dumb trade Philly makes all the time.

Yes. Thus the pennies on the dollar comment... he hoarded assets to the point that he’s deflated their market value and has to divest of his assets at a much lower price than what he paid for them (selling them for cash or 2nd rounders is a perfect example of this)

Only can have 1-2 guys optioned to the D League at a time. Fwiw, Jordan Mickey, last year’s 2nd rounder, was crushing it in the D League this past year to the point that most teams would have tired to see if he could cut it in the real league. Could only get like 4 minutes total on the main team as they were chasing…

Yup. I was wondering if they could pry Noel, Saric, 24, 26 and a future pick for 3 tonight, then flip 3-4 of the first rounders back to like 8-12 and still pick a lottery player to go along with that haul. Sixers seem desperate.

Problem is, Celtics have too many picks. Can’t possibly find minutes to develop the young players they do select (there literally aren’t even roster spots for the 8 guys they could draft tonight), so their investments in these picks may never pay off, and nobody wants to trade for their picks unless they give out so…

Yeah. You could make a very legitimate NBA playoff contender (or at least you could 3 years ago, some of these guys are getting older now) with a team full of guys who Thomas and Donnie Walsh identified as talented, brought to the Knicks, and then got rid of before they could hit their stride in New York (Dolan forced…

Sounds about right.

Its the old Knicks formula returning. Back to the dark Isiah Thomas andn Dolan intervention days. Struggling for relevance? Why not trade away one of your only passably good players (lopez) and some of your young prospects to add an overpaid, oft-injured, former All-Star with declining skills who doesn’t complement…

Indeed. Voting is a classic collective action problem. Each individual voter can free ride on everyone else with no statistical risk of affecting the outcome. But if a lot of people to try free ride, the outcome can definitely change.

get over yourself

if you didn’t see a structured offense from Cleveland last night you weren’t paying attention. the cavs were very patiently and methodologically trying to pick apart the warriors by doing the same thing over and over and over, which was to have curry’s man (or Klay’s) screen for the ballhandler (usually lebron) at the…

No disagreement from me that the Warriors system is incredibly special and hard for any team to guard, even with preparation.

But they clearly adjusted, learned from that game, and devised a system through trial and error to counteract the lineup over the course of the series. The Cavs were running a different offense by Games 5-7 then they came into the series running.

My fear at that moment exactly

How much of it as that for your regular regular season game the opposing team only has time — given the NBA schedule — to do minimal game planning and practicing and changing of its own sets to adjust to the Warriors unusual lineup. So on any given regular season night you have team X running its usual sets against…

Even though he may have badly injured his wrist moments earlier? He may well have an injured wrist right now and we just haven’t heard the details yet because it doesn’t matter. He took a crazy fall on the foul there.