David Aldridge Ranks the NBA

[z0sa]

A "successful" offseason is one that is above average -- for instance, retaining Aldridge AND signing a significant free agent (or a good haul of significant role players through FA and/or trade) from another team.

An "average" offseason is just retaining everyone you have, drafting a couple guys and just standing pat. That's what the Spurs did last year. Didn't work out too well.

Stop crying about an arbitrary ranking system. it's unbecoming.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

David Aldridge clearly listed that as factoring into how he ranked the teams. Feel free to come up with your own rankings without that criterion.

1. Spurs
2. Clippers
3. Grizzlies
4. Rockets
5. Celtics


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28. Suns
29. Guests
30. Ponies

[Brazil]

Clips are clear cut second and you could argue it's a toss up with SA (?)

They added Pierce and Lance, they lost M Barnes (which is already an upgrade except against the Spurs ) and retained last minute DA J plus some other less significative stuff

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This is not a ranking of the team themselves, but offseason grades. In other words, who DA believes had the best off seasons.

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

[TampaDude]

Resistance is futile.

[T Park]

Clips are clear cut second and you could argue it's a toss up with SA (?)

They added Pierce and Lance, they lost M Barnes (which is already an upgrade except against the Spurs ) and retained last minute DA J plus some other less significative stuff

Without Barnes and who he's replaced with, their wing defense is putrid now.

[Brazil]

Without Barnes and who he's replaced with, their wing defense is putrid now.

not sure how it is worst now

[BillMc]

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

I'm sorry, Tim, I'm afraid I can't do that.

[Kidd K]

I was just reading through that site and holy The Cavs gave Iman Shumpert a 4 year 40 mil deal.

lolwut?

Suddenly Danny Green's contract looks like a really good deal.

[Agloco]

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I was just reading through that site and holy The Cavs gave Iman Shumpert a 4 year 40 mil deal.

lolwut?

Suddenly Danny Green's contract looks like a really good deal.

It should have looked good without that context tbh. It's good old fashioned robbery when put next to Shumps deal. That and the cap exploding next year will reveal just how much the Spurs shorted him.

[GSH]

Danny, Tim, and West all gave up a pile of cash. Even LMA could have made millions more by staying put. To me, that says they're hungry for that LOB. That's a good place to start.

You're right though - Schumpert at 4/40 makes Danny's deal highway robbery.

[Kidd K]

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It should have looked good without that context tbh. It's good old fashioned robbery when put next to Shumps deal. That and the cap exploding next year will reveal just how much the Spurs shorted him.

His deal seemed normal/slightly high to me (not by much though). But I guess I'm not used to seeing certain players get this much money. I remember everyone talking about how overpaid Luol Deng was and he barely got more than Green is now. And Deng is, or at least was, quite a decent player at the time too.

I mean. . .Shumpert? 10m? FOUR YEARS? What????

[Genjuro]

How are the Mavs ahead of the Rockets or the Jazz when talking about offseason improvement? It's quite a bizarre ranking IMO.