It has been three years since last we experimented with what I will call The Danny Ainge System, using baseball's Sabermetrics to evaluate NBA front offices. It is inspired by both Ainge's stint with the Toronto Blue Jays and the similaritiesbetween Daryl Morey's brand of team-building and Billy Beane's Moneyball.
within each category and overall. They are by overall OPS, excepting executives who assumed decision-making duties in the past year: Denver Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth, Portland Trail Blazers GM Joe Cronin, Atlanta Hawks GM Landry Fields, Washington Wizards team president Michael Winger and Golden State Warriors GM Mike Dunleavy Jr. The sample sizes for them are simply too small.
Not all home runs are created equal. Tim Connelly's second-round selection of Nikola Jokić in 2014 is the equivalent of a 550-foot walk-off grand slam. Kevin Durant was served on a platter to Sam Presti as a No. 2 overall pick in 2007. Both count the same in OPS, which in the long run should prevent any one transaction from defining an executive's career. Same goes for strikeouts. Connelly's acquisition of Rudy Gobert was like.
We also weeded out a ton of transactions to streamline the system. Most swaps of second-round picks and salary dumps that do not cost teams anything of significance are eliminated. A series of trades that is tied together is generally combined into one transaction. Executives are not credited with strikeouts for whiffing on late second-round picks, but they can benefit from reaching base with any of them . Likewise for veteran minimum free-agent signings.Context matters.
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