Article: Spurs Rumblings Before the Start of Preseason

[DPG21920]

I just don't know if 'improving their stock' is a thing in the NBA when it comes to veterans. Everyone in the league knows what Josh Richardson and Jakob Poeltl can do. It's not a mystery. A good example of how teams actively know what players are even when playing (or not playing) for bad teams is Thad Young last year. Toronto understood him as having value and traded for him.

Maybe true, but my point was they can definitely hurt their stock. I agree, nothing can be done to improve it, but they can really tank their value if they are seen as more flawed than expected because team around them suck.

[The Truth #6]

Then Yak and Jrich should get the Thad treatment: don’t play them so we don’t drag them through the mud or risk injury.