Some years ago, I read an amusing analysis of a baseball trade which lasted for decades. By that I mean the author traced the careers of all those involved in the deal, and those who were traded for those involved, and so on. The otherwise unremarkable trade had an astonishing long tail, as they say in the insurance industry.
While basketball careers are much shorter than baseball ones, I thought it might be fun to examine the alive-ness of one of Masai Ujiri’s most famous and successful trades: moving Rudy Gay and spare parts to Sacramento in December of 2013.