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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 2590535" data-attributes="member: 2013">As to trades, IIRC, there were a grand total of three trades last season.  Two were swaps of 9th or 10th men for other 9th or 10th men, and the one "blockbuster" was something like Andre Miller plus Chris Mihm for Paul Pierce and an even scrubbier Center than Mihm (maybe Zaza Pachulia?  Can't recall who, even though I was in on the trade).As to the two center position thing... I just fired my way through the top 120 players (on the assumption that 10 "playing slots" per team times 12 teams means that on average, 120 players will get a lot of minutes) as listed by Yahoo's O-Rank, and found that there are 23 of those players eligible at Center... which just happens to be one shy of two per team.  When you consider that rookies Bogut, Diogu, and Frye (of the top-10 picks, who probably will get playing time) are also eligible at Center, that works out to a little more than two center-eligible players per team.  And I don't think there are only "5 good centers" - by my count, there were 9 center-eligible players in the top 42 as ranked by Yahoo... compare to 18 forward-eligible players and 23 guard-eligible players (note this doesn't sum to 42 as some players are eligible at multiple positions), and consider that there are, statistically, twice as many guards and forwards on the floor as there are centers, and this doesn't look particularly lopsided.Besides, I think it's nice to make teams stretch a little bit... if there are so few teams that everyone has star players at every position, there's no need for trades.  If everyone is stretched a position or two thin, it forces you to make decisions about where you are going to have your holes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

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