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The Donovan Mitchell trade to the Cleveland Cavaliers might have started a new era in the NBA… one where smaller market teams are better positioned to make a big NBA trade for stars.
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I think you’re ignoring that the small market teams usually have worse weather and less to do lol. Players want to live a good life too
The Knicks haven't been really good since I was in high school and I'm old. There's now way that young stars grew up dreaming about playing for the Knicks. I think it's always been overstated that players only want to go to NY or LA
Only thing that matters is which team is prepared to spends more money
Toronto is literally taylor made for a star just to show up and be a title contender. Siakam is literally proving he can be a second option on a championship team. But now he’s even better then he was when Kawhi was there. His play making abilities have increased drastically. Plus they are one of the best front offices in the league
This just isn’t all the way true. Big market teams are still overwhelmingly destroying small market teams in terms on wins (outside of smaller market teams with all time great players). Now if you look at the last 20 NBA champions 13 of them came from big market teams. Now if you take a look at the remaining 7 teams it was the Spurs 4 times, Bucks, Cavs, and Pistons. Outside the pistons the other 6 teams had at-least one player who is top 30-40 player of all time. Shit even take the last 20 championship teams, 19 of them had a top 30-40 player of all time leading them to the promise land. So really small or big market the only thing that has been proven is you need all time greats to win.
The Cavs lived in the luxury tax during Lebron 2.0. The big market/small market talking point is just that. A talking point that doesn’t impact as much as people think. The question you should be asking is why do big market teams try to acquire a Superteam when we know Superteams don’t have a great track record. CLE, MIL, PHO, MIA will become the new normal.
This team is so fun. ECF here we come #Letemknow
Sure the Mitchell trade helped elevate the Cavs but they aren't title contenders and they HAVE to figure out how to keep depth over the next couple years given the lack of 1st round picks in the coming years.
Nobody of note has signed with a big market team in years. The moves you mentioned was 6 years ago. You can't even name the last top player that left for a big market recently.
The best part about this Cavs team is that the best is yet to come. Garland and Mobley still have so much more room to get even better. Give it a couple more years and they'll be legit contenders
When you say "big market teams" I don't understand why you include the Knicks. Who wants to play there?
Good for the Cavs. Good for D. Mitch. They're a fun team to watch.
If the other guys develop right,the cavs could be a super team with 4 legit all stars on the team.
LA also had cap space for LBJ 😀 , and in case to compare markets Utah-Clevland i would toss coin
Bro repeated the take like 39 times
Remember,the Knicks didn't want him so their fans say 😂
4 years ago, nobody was gonna say the cavs were a capable organization that has any advantage over any other teams
Damn the knicks are in this guy head 24/7
This case doesn't apply to Damian the team sucks,
If lebron went to Utah in 2018 he would’ve won at least 2 chips
start putting highlights of players playing basketball, I don’t wanna just look at you or frozen pictures
Yo what’s up with ur Nets? Don’t sunglasses every other team and then say “I gotta wait til the story is str8” our ass. And nah no patreon no twitter bs make a vid that’s why we’re subbed bro!
Love the video
I disagree on the takeaway tho. I think if anything, larger markets adopt the strategies as fans get more educated with strategy etc. Like the sixers. Anyways just my opinion, still love the content
I dont want to be that guy, but i watched the whole video and the caption is “ Everything changed “ and you dont anything about how something changed, and saying what you think about small market teams. Not good.
Been a Cavs fan 50 years. DM is the biggest trade acquisition we’ve ever had. Great to see it’s working so incredibly well.
Fantastic video! Tucker is on fire this week!
I really liked where all of these small-market teams are headed, and how they’ve set themselves up to compete. 🙂
Were not even a quarter into the season lets pump the breaks.
I guess you're right? But that's bad business obviously for the NBA money machine so trust the league to adjust the rules and get around this. After all, the market forces always decide in the free World
I disagree with tucker, the Cavs are contenders and I'm a heat fan no bias wanted Mitchell as our second option
I gotta agree that too much win-now pressure often produces bad teams. The Celtics, for example, had by far the winningest franchise for so long by the late 1980s that it was unthinkable that they wouldn't keep finding ways to stay ahead. Sure they might have a down year here and there, but the expectation was that the next Bird was around the corner. But two super talented players unexpectedly passed away in the late 80s and early 90s, which along with the retirement of the big three, started the franchise down a losing path. After several years of losing, massive pressure built up to start winning. Famously they paid Rick Pitino a huge salary to turn the franchise around. He had not only been a successful college coach, but he had some success coaching the Knicks as well. As coach and top executive he did make some solid draft choices like Paul Pierce and Chauncey Billups, and he clearly was a good player development guy, but the pressure to win now was immense, and he made a series of bad trade after bad trade that wasted much of the talent he acquired and developed. He made it pretty obvious in his public statements that the pressure was just too much. Fortunately expectations had lessened, making it easier for execs like Wallace and Ainge to take their time gathering assets for the C's, eventually sending them back to the top of the NBA. But with the Lakers and Knicks, for example, that pressure never really dies. We can see with the Buss family and some legacy execs, like Mitch Kupchak, that the Lakers too had too much pressure to handle. Again with the Knicks, there is endless pressure from the harshest fan-base in sports, and virtually no one can stay in that pressure cooker for long.
Not to mention how much of a local hero you become if you go to a smaller market, have success and decides to stay
I feel like the East is really starting to lean their focus on the younger generations, and building up their visions for the future. Cleveland, Milwaukee, Boston and Atlanta's stars are all in their early to mid 20s, so they won't be stalling any time soon. I'm down for this – Milwaukee fan, but the more power every team has, the more meaningful each win is worth and the more they can learn from losses.
really interesting vid
Cavs got the steal of the summer frfr 🤞🏾
Bigger market teams overly attach themselves to their star players and have long term deal. Which means more control and more money to the star players
I think we can give up on the "Knicks trade rumor" angle. They don't get stars. Like, at all.