2023-24 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

Seemed accidental to me. Of course, it's Brooks, so probably premeditated and planned a month in advance.

 

When the Spurs won the title in 2014 I think they played some Euro team in the preseason and lost. It happens every few years, those teams are good and most NBA teams don't care about the preseason.

I've been dreading it a bit since Simmons mentioned it on his podcast a few years ago, but DLo/Rui for Kyrie is simple and works from a salary perspective after January 15th. I don't want it, but we'll almost certainly hear about it. After constant trade speculation for most of the last two seasons, I'm trying my best to just enjoy the current very good team and not think about who else could potentially be on it lol.

 

makes you wonder if the genius that is Rob had this in the back of his mind as well when they came up with the amount of the Rui contract....



With as much talent as we have at that position, it's not an outlandish possibility for sure.

 

they gave him 80 million for this?

 

Lol..I love it! I hope the firecrackers self implode on the launch pad!

 

Guess no one wanted to trade for nutcase averaging 3 & 3

 

Have fun in China, bruh!

 

Bridges in the news again

 

broke his ex-girlfriend's (the one he beat) windshield at her place apparently

how do you still play him after that?

 

The report stated that it didn't involve any violence.

 

So how does Kyrie do on defense when big wings and forwards hunt him like haters thought was happening to Reaves in FIBA play?

 

NBArank 2023: Player rankings for 2023-24, from 10 to 1

LBJ #9
AD #10

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38633041/nbarank-2023-player-rankings-2023-24-10-1

 

we'll be lucky to be the 8th seed in the West lol

(Per Analcysts)

 

NBA says ‘load management’ no longer supported by scientific data: ‘Every player should want to play 82 games’

According to NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Joe Dumars , the league's statistics no longer show the benefits of spreading the workload of star players, The Athletic's Joe Vardon and Sam Amick report.

“It used to be that the data showed that players should be rested for a certain amount of time and this justified their absence from matches. We have collected statistics, and they in no way confirm that rest or missing matches correlates with the absence of injuries, fatigue or anything like that. But the fact that guys are not so effective in back-to-back is for sure.

Obviously, everyone won't play in 82 games, but they have to want to play in 82 games. And that’s the culture we’re trying to restore now,” Dumars said.

In September, the league introduced a new policy that will affect the 49 players who have been named to the All-Star Game or All-Star Game over the past three seasons.

“We got to this point without paying attention to the problem. And we went towards this gradually – year after year. And as time goes on, you can see how all these missed games in the regular season, All-Star games turn into what it was last year. And it didn't just appear out of nowhere. Therefore, at some point you need to stop this decline. We must solve this problem,” added Dumars.

 

hmm...i'd love to see the data on both sides of the argument. obviously, no one has conducted a RCT for load management in the nba, so there has to be a lot of room for interpretation. for example, does kawhi leonard--just that one guy--skew the data? what constitutes as an observation for "rest" as opposed to injury? what's the outcome variable of interest? actual injury? who verifies that and how?

 

The practice of resting players who are not obviously injured long predates Leonard, but it (along with the actual phrase of “load management”) spread like wildfire throughout the NBA over the last two seasons, with numerous stars being held out of the same games, often when they were broadcast on national TV, even though they were not obviously injured.

Teams have overhauled their training staffs with an emphasis on hiring people who could use data analytics to predict and prevent injury, to the point that it has become a cottage industry within the NBA.

To offer a hint of just how commonplace it had become, of the top 50 scorers in the NBA last season, only 12 played in at least 70 of the league’s 82 regular-season games. Not all of those games missed were due to load management, but it’s still far too many absences from a team sport built on the marketability of stars.

There was a January set of games in Cleveland last season, on a Friday and Saturday night, when the Warriors on Friday kept Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, and Andrew Wiggins out, even though only Wiggins was injured (the Warriors had played the night before). On Saturday, the Bucks kept Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton out.

That’s six All-Stars out of action in one weekend of games in one city.

 

As recently as last February, during All-Star weekend, NBA commissioner Adam Silver rejected the notion that star players were missing too many games. He said, “there is real medical data and scientific data about what’s appropriate.”

But in September, as the league, in conjunction with its players’ union, created new policies to restrict when they may rest players who are not obviously injured, Silver changed his tune, saying “frankly, the science is inconclusive” and “we don’t see any statistical data suggesting that players increase their likelihood of getting injured as they go further along in the season.”