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Do NBA teams avoid trading within their own division?

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  • adams, jimi
  • Bojanowski, Michał

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Within US professional sports, trades within one’s own division are often perceived to be disadvantageous. We ask how common this practice is. To examine this question, we construct a date-stamped network of all trades in the National Basketball Association between June 1976 and May 2019. We then use season-specific weighted exponential random graph models to estimate the likelihood of teams avoiding within-division trade partners, and how consistent that pattern is across the observed period. In addition to the empirical question, this analysis serves to demonstrate the necessity and difficulty of constructing the proper baseline for statistical comparison. We find limited-to-no support for the popular perception.

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  • adams, jimi & Bojanowski, Michał, 2023. "Do NBA teams avoid trading within their own division?," Network Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 11(4), pages 657-669, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:netsci:v:11:y:2023:i:4:p:657-669_6
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