Presidents and general managers of talent-fowling NBA teams, gather 'round. It's high time y'all were made privy to a dirty little secret.
Contrary to popular and widely assumed beliefs, some of you are better off resisting the temptation to enter the trade market.
This doesn't hold true for all of you, of course. If Mr. Billy King can find a way to blow up the Brooklyn Nets, then by all means, blow that money pit up. If Rich Cho can enact the ultimate mulligan by unloading Lance Stephenson, do it.
And if Stan Van Gundy can find an unwitting team to trade for Josh Smith, then go right—oh, never mind. Bad example, per the Detroit Pistons themselves.
Other Association executives aren't in the same boat. Some might be overseeing middling, underachieving or bottom-feeding squads in clear need of upgrades. Some might even be charged with controlling a championship contender looking to add an extra punch or sidestep the exceedingly expensive, deeply dreaded luxury tax line.
For whatever reason, the appeal of significant change—as is in dynamic-disturbing; as in Sam Hinkie collecting another second-round pick in exchange for Robert Covington wouldn't qualify—is there. And for other reasons entirely—namely respective futures—the allure of immediate change must be warded off.
from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/1zX7M06
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