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Much remains unsettled about what effects the NBA's new first- and second- apron restrictions will have on how teams are built in the future, but this offseason suggests one pretty clear trend: It's forcing franchises to be much more careful. The Denver Nuggets and LA Clippers got meaningfully worse because they were unwilling to face the penalties of continued spending, and other squads maneuvered with great care to duck under the first and second aprons. Despite the new rules engendering so much caution, teams still made mistakes this offseason.

Some errors were larger than others, and we'll really have to stretch to identify them in a couple of cases. When you look back a year from now and try to identify what went wrong with your favorite team, there's a good chance some of these offseason miscalculations will be to blame. The Atlanta Hawks' decision to break up their backcourt by trading Dejounte Murray instead of Trae Young could turn out to be the right call.



But by choosing to retain Young, whose presence has a more fundamental impact on Atlanta's identity—how it plays on offense, what it must do to compensate for him on D, how it builds out the rest of the roster—the team risks finding itself in a similar situation a year from now. Which is to say: disappointed in the results and still looking for a true reset. That the Hawks moved Murray suggests they still believe Young can be their central figure on the floor and in the locker room.

Or it could mean packages f.

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