NBA economics

Read Mark Cuban's thoughts on the Detroit Pistons, and why the Lakers lost. Mark Cuban, in case you don't already know, is the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. His blog pretends to be about basketball but like so much of the best sports writing it concerns personnel management, human motivation, and how to measure achievement. I loved this line from yesterday: "Believe it or not, even in the NBA [trade] discussions start based off of what we read in the newspapers."