The San Antonio Spurs moved on from Dejounte Murray earlier in the offseason in a trade with the Atlanta Hawks. Now, they are in need of another potential future NBA All-Star.
We live in a society. Accordingly, we are governed by rules. With that said, everyone has a different relationship with those rules. Some people love the rules. They prefer order and organization to chaos. On the other hand, some people see rules like a piñata: They were made to be broken.
Meanwhile, the National Basketball Association is governed by rules as well. Some of those rules are more formal than others. One informal rule is that rebuilding teams do not trade first-round picks.
A related rule holds that win-now teams do not trade impact players.
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Moreover, teams largely follow those rules. Yet, they are informal – if teams want to break them, nobody is going to stop them.
Here’s a deal that has the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat acting as utter anarchists this summer.