Breaking down six of the biggest risers and fallers from the 2019 NBA season
In college, I got a D+ in finance (if my mom asks I got a B). So I won’t pretend to be an expert on anything involving interest, time value of money, or other financial things that I can’t remember and are probably the reason I got a D+. That being said, even a D+ means that I could pretend like I knew some of the terms, at least enough to not fail.
One of the very few things I remember from that class, besides the impossible tests and the kid with a mullet who always tried to steal my spot in the back corner of the class, is depreciation of assets. I bring this up because appreciation and depreciation of assets is something that every team in the NBA has to continuously evaluate. Both for their players, and players around the league.
The difference is that there is no formula for NBA teams to project how well or poorly their players (assets) have aged. They can hope and predict that young players improve and expect older players to decline, but until you see it, you can’t really put much stock in it (pun intended).
What I’ll be doing here is something resembling an appreciation/depreciation article about some of the biggest risers and fallers of the 2018-19 season. The goal is to look back and see what players we think differently about this summer than we did last summer, whether that’s for reasons that are good or bad.
A few agenda items before I get to the names:
- This is an evaluation of a given player’s net change in trade value over the past year, not a list of players who simply improved and regressed the most. It’s a combination of all factors: production, contract, age, etc.
- This is one year in review, no extra points for having a good career prior to this year. Think of it as an evaluation of what we thought a player was last summer, and comparing that to what we think of them now.
- That’s it but I wanted to have three agenda items.