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You know the old expression that hindsight is 20/20. And while that is true most of the time, there are instances where teams in every sport try to make bold moves that they hope will pan out in spite of the fact that most people thought it was a bad move at the time.
Is anyone surprised that the Chicago Cubs traded Milton Bradley one year into a 3-year, $30 million contract he signed last year?
The only reason the Cubs were able to find a taker [...]

If there’s one thing that a lot of NBA fans are guilty of it’s what I like to call “GM Worship”. This happens when a fan thinks that every move that their team’s GM makes is brilliant.
I remember Raptors fans in the summer of 2008 who couldn’t shut up about the brilliance of Bryan Colangelo. They couldn’t have been any giddier about Hassan Adams, Roko Ukic, and Nathan Jawai.
A year later and none of the three are still members of the Raptors. Adams is playing in Serbia, Ukic was traded to the Bucks, and Jawai was traded to the Mavericks, [...]

If the last few seasons are any indication, one of the NBA’s golden eras might soon be coming to an end.
From 1992-96 the NBA experienced five of it’s greatest draft classes in terms of superstar talent and career longevity. Now that many of those stars have begun retiring, we have a large enough sample with which to gauge the average career span of the modern-day NBA superstar.
There are a number of factors which separate this particular generation from those that preceded it.
For example, the number of high school games many of those guys played was nearly twice as many as [...]

In light of Saturday night’s events, you really have to feel for Greg Oden. Fran Blinebury of NBA.com points out that by the conclusion of this season , Oden will have played in just 82 of a possible 246 games to begin his career. That’s exactly one full season of games out of three.
While I’m not trying to say that injuries to athletes who are unlikable should be cheered, the fact that Oden seems to be a great kid makes it that much more heartbreaking.
If you don’t believe me, check out Oden’s “audition” for the hosting gig at the 2008 ESPY Awards.
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