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Wade was injured in 2008 that was why they sucked, not cos they "tanked". And yes they made plenty of additions, they did so without...
1. You are tanking, you are trading a productive player for a non-productive player in the hope that said non-productive player has potential in...
If you want to tank, then you better fire Daryl Morey. If Les wanted Daryl to tank, he would resign tommorrow, and get hired the next day by...
The problem is coaching, not competition. The level of coaching in china is very low. They don't need to hire ex-NBA players, they should hire...
Orlando could've had Mcgady and Howard, they already had the no 1 draft pick before they dealt Mcgrady. You could argue that trading mcgrady cost...
Good management don't tank.
Clippers have been tanking for years, bobcats have tanked their entire franchise history, memphis, etc... Cleveland tanked to get Lebron,...
Most number 3 picks will never reach what Scola and Martin are at right now, makes no sense to deal them for potential.
What most fans mean when they say "rebuilding" is to trade away "good players" for draft picks or "potential" and hope their teams suck enough to...
my point is that we look with rose colored glasse at recent players. Everyone think of Derrick Rose or Deron Williams as franchise players, but...
Here's the thing, let's accept that all these guys are franchise players, which is not true. Most of these guys were traded or acquired in Free...
Irrelevant to how to build a team today, this was pre-draft lottery, pre salary cap, pre luxury tax, pre-free agency.
All-stars are not franchise players. Franchise players are the supposedly alpha dogs that you can build a championship team around.
Where did I ever say that? my whole point is that you are no better off rebuilding than trying to improve the team. There is no "rebuilding"...
All of them other than the Spurs? Shaq, changed teams twice KG changed teams Billups changed teams
So how many franchise players were drafted between 1990 and 2000?
This is not a game of fantasy basketball, it's not a question of comparing stats between the two. How does the team do under brooks and lowry...
The problem is that Wade and Duncan come around once a decade. There's probably only one franchise player every 2 years, that's 28 lottery...
Different era, there was no such thing as salary cap, luxury tax, even free agency was limited. We are playing with a very specific CBA.
Bulls and Pistons were pre-draft lottery, where you could tank and be assured of no 1 pick, it was the tanking of houston that led to the draft...
