Everybody fails sometimes. What matters is how they respond to failure. NBA teams know this well.
You’ve heard it before. If you don’t succeed, try again. Although normally, it’s “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”. If you ask us, they should have tried again when they coined the expression.
The New York Knicks did their best to land Donovan Mitchell this summer. For a long time, his eventual departure to New York felt inevitable. It wasn’t. Now, Mitchell is a Cavalier. The Knicks failed.
That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try again. Between now and the trade deadline, plenty of star players could become available. As some teams underperform, the same rumors that surrounded Mitchell will inevitably start to warm around them.
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For example, the Chicago Bulls ought to hope for a hot start. Otherwise, who knows if Zach LaVine will come to be seen as a trade candidate?
In the event that he does, here’s a deal that sends him to the New York Knicks.
