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From the Desk of the Intern
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Per directive from the Señor Director, I have been tasked with conducting reconnaissance on available centers at the trade deadline. What I discovered requires immediate escalation to leadership.
The situation: The Brooklyn Nets are running what appears to be the most sophisticated trade value manipulation scheme I have witnessed in my brief, unqualified tenure in speculative basketball operations.
The target: Day'Ron Sharpe, a 24-year-old backup center making $6.2 million annually.
The con: Brooklyn is actively suppressing Sharpe's minutes while showcasing Nic Claxton ($97M/4yr) to inflate trade value, despite Sharpe posting objectively superior performance metrics.
Bottom line: The Nets are soft-tanking, while selling fool's gold (Claxton) and hiding actual gold (Sharpe).
2 comments
As someone who has been fixated on Claxton being our center of the future, good to get a report on where the real value is
As a Nets fan reading this bought a smile to my face.
One thing Sean Marks is good at and that’s identifying and backfilling the center position.
You’re absolutely correct that Marks pump up his trade target value and then ship them out. Mikal and Cam Johnson all had career years before getting traded, Claxton is currently having his career year (he was on fire to start the season but cooled off after missing time due to a death in his family) Claxton’s contract was also designed to be desirable for trade.
With that said, I disagree with “the fools gold” Clax on a team with stars is valuable. He’s the dream center for an elite PnR Point Guard, he switches and protects the rim but on a team with raw rookie PG’s, he’s wasting away.
Lakers, Celtics and Bulls are his likely landing spot. Teams in need of a center, have expiring contracts and draft capital for a trade.
If he ends up in Chicago be nice to him 🙂