I don't think so as (1) most teams and players aren't gonna pull stunts like that and (2) the second rounder still has other benefits like stashing players and not being subject to the rookie scale if you want to bring over say, a very good overseas player.
I don't necessarily agree with everything in this article due to some leaps of logic. But there is a point. That being said. I thought that all articles and media bash Morey nowadays because he's been exposed as a bad, overrated GM according to some posters here.
no, the early second rounder is *normally* very similar in talent to the late first rounder, but with the added advantage of greater salary flexibility for the team. The guaranteed first round rookie scale calls for guaranteed number of years and amounts that are proportional to the position selected.
Not the same type of deal. Bogans has a nonguaranteed portion of his salary that can become VERY attractive to teams wishing to shed salary. I know at least the 2015-16 year of the contract is fully nonguaranteed. Terry's contract is just an expiring albatross of a contract.
In Sacramentos defense, just about every asset they acquire starts to depreciate the second it steps foot within the city limits. It's like Sacramento is a giant sinkhole or something. Nothing they can do about that save get out like the Maloofs.
Hopefully other GMs reading that article are smarter than the writer. There are 30 teams in the NBA. If your team is a playoff-bound team, you're really only fighting against 3 teams in your conference and the best from the other conference. If you can plug a big hole in your roster by giving away a player whos skill set you dont need, who might be a better talent than who you're asking for in return, to a team you're unlikely to face in the playoffs, then what's the big deal? All this one GM trying to one-up the other GM in a trade, that could be true (Isaiah Thomas Knicks GM), but the smarter GMs know they're beating the other GMs who are not in the trade. Its like fantasy basketball. Nobody wants to trade their hotshot center when they're already leading the league in blocks by a huge mile and the team's last in assists and 3s.
They make trades so much over the years that i thought they ought to change their team names to Sacramento Rockets and Houston Kings.
Actually it might improve it early second as as the reason Josh agreed to the arrangement is that he might not have even been a 2nd round pick. It's moves like these that allow more marginal players to be drafted in the first, leaving the early second much more tantalizing.
I'm convinced Morey gets his drink on every now and then and prank calls Petrie in retirement to tell him he's got a deal.
