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Understanding the Trade Market: Who is Dealer Dell?
This whole series has aimed to give you, the readers, a better understanding of the trade market as a whole. We hoped to give you some academic insight and practical knowledge, so you could comprehend the factors that dictate every decision a team makes in the trade market. While we often used examples from our […]
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Understanding the Trade Market: Opportunity Cost
Everything has a cost. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it many-a-time until they run me off this site. Even if a thing is free from a financial perspective, it has a cost from an economic perspective. The difference here is crucial. The financial perspective is simply about money. Straight up. Plain. Simple. Vanilla. […]
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Understanding the Trade Market: the Problem With Redundancy Redundancy
Picture this. You’re playing an NBA video game and you’re creating a player. You have no limits on the amount of skill points you assign to him. If you’re me and you’re 13 years old, you’re cranking the created player to a 99. You’re 7’2 and you move like Russell Westbrook, you shoot like Steph […]
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Understanding the Trade Market: The Layers of Asset Values in the NBA
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray This little quip from Mr. Wilde would eventually be co-opted to mock economists as people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. For non-economists, the point of this phrase was […]
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Understanding the NBA Trade Market: The Bigger Picture
A few of the writers here at Bourbon Street Shots are going to be putting together a series on the NBA Trade Market leading up to the trade deadline. Our goal is to publish around a couple of pieces a week on various topics relating to trades. This article will serve as the introductory article. […]