Answer: Bucketball
@ sacking
this is the well-known nonsense of the prophets after Christ.
the point is to analyze the data before doing anything.
if I know the final result, I'll give you an analysis that NEVER falls outside.
the exchanges that take place in the NBA have to do first with the "salary cap" and then with the competitive part.
so if we do not know exactly what applies to this piece and under what conditions the player remains free, we cannot have an opinion.
to figure out. clearly, Martin cannot be compared to Harden. the 2nd is a much more complete player, he offers much more in the park. Martin is only for the attack, for nothing else.
and clearly COMPETITIVELY such an exchange does not make sense, but there was a lot more and finally Harden left for Houston and Martin took the opposite course. this exchange was made purely for "salary cap" reasons and because in the summer, as you write, they would have lost him anyway, because he was free. many teams in the NBA are moving like Oklahoma did in Harden's case.
but let me say the other thing now.
who expected that after the trade of Rudy Gay and the arrival of Prince in the middle of multiple trades finally in Memphis, that Memphis would reach the final of the West?
Will the prophets after Christ come out to say that in this case Memphis made the big trick?
because then no one would have expected the evolution of Memphis. today that I know the result, I am making an analysis murlia