Wolves to Hire Sachin Gupta as VP of Basketball Operations 你狼今天从活赛管理层挖角了Sachin Gupta担任VP，预计是负责设计交易、签约等内容。 有点架空雷登原本的职责的意思。 Prior to his brief stint in Detroit, Gupta spent time with the Houston Rockets as a special advisor to Daryl Morey. This was actually Gupta’s second stint with the Rockets, his first coming back in 2006 when he was Morey’s first hire for the front office after Morey was hired away from the Boston Celtics. Gupta also spent time with the Philadelphia 76ers 在去年到活塞任职前，Gupta曾待过火箭、塞尔提克、七六人，是Rosas过去的同事。 OK... I know most of that is just a resume word salad and not very exciting, but here’s the fun part: Gupta, a graduate from MIT, is most well-known as the man responsible for developing the NBA Trade Machine on ESPN.com! Yes, THIS NBA TRADE MACHINE! Gupta最广为人知的成就是，他设计了ESPN网站上知名的NBA TRADE MACHINE。 可见他对於CBA(Collective Bargaining Agreement 集体谈判协议)是非常纯熟的。 Gupta’s second stint with the Rockets, his first coming back in 2006 when he was Morey’s first hire for the front office after Morey was hired away from the Boston Celtics. 2006年莫雷上任後，第一个签的制服组就是他 Gupta, a recent computer science and electrical engineering graduate of MIT who was working as a software engineer for ESPN at the time, stuck around when the talk was over to chat with Morey one-on-one. 当时Gupta刚从麻省理工毕业，在ESPN当工程师。 Morey, of course, met with many young adults looking to enter the sports world, a hypercompetitive industry with depressingly low odds to break into. But Gupta left an impression on Morey because of how proactive he was, even as a relative outsider, in pushing the boundaries of statistical analysis. The fact that Gupta had proven his coding ability as an engineer at ESPN made him even more desirable. 虽然Gupta在NBA圈内完全是个外行人，但他的数据分析能力已经给莫雷留下了深刻的印象。 When Morey was hired by Houston just a little over a year later, Gupta immediately applied for one of the numerous positions Morey posted to fill out his staff. His role with the Rockets was one that started off in a more traditional, technical variety, building the databases and generating the reports that Morey and VP of Basketball Operations Sam Hinkie would use to help them make decisions. 一开始，Gupta在火箭的工作是建立数据库，协助莫雷和Sam Hinkie作为决策参考。 But while Gupta’s connection to Morey may have helped him get his foot in the door, he was also fortunate enough to work in an environment that was built on meritocracy. Emboldened by the open environment Morey and Hinkie created, Gupta, who became an expert on the ins and outs of the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement while developing the trade machine at ESPN, began branching out, pitching trade ideas to Morey and Hinkie despite not having the job title most would deem necessary to be taken seriously. 经过多年磨练，Gupta在CBA精算上大有斩获，设计了ESPN TRADE MACINE，并且开始设计各种交易方案让莫雷和辛基参考。 One such instance was the buildup to the summer of 2010, the year of LeBron, when every team in the league was clearing cap space, convincing themselves that they had a real chance to sign James and turn their franchise around. The Rockets took the the road less traveled, using their cap space to capitalize on the rest of the league’s unrealistic optimism in order to gain additional youth and draft picks, such as Jordan Hill, a future 1st round draft pick, and the right to swap first round picks with the Knicks, pieces which would prove valuable as the team tried to rebound from the devastating injuries to Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. 2010年所有球队都在想办法清空间，准备裸签大鱼时，Gupta认为市场对於空间的价值太过乐观。所以火箭在其他球队拚命清空间时，反其道而行，开始高价卖空间收选秀权、新秀和首轮签互换。 That trade, according to those involved with the Houston front office at the time, was the brainchild of Gupta. Over the years this would prove to be Gupta’s forte, even more so than the comfort level with statistics that got him in the door. 火箭内部消息指出，顺利摆脱Tracy McGrady的大约是Gupta杰作。 He would eventually leave the Rockets to pursue an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, although that time away from the game proved to be brief as Gupta was immediately brought in to be Hinkie’s #2 when the Sixers hired the now-controversial executive away from the Rockets in the spring of 2013. The Rockets, according to sources, were going to try to bring Gupta back once he was finished with his MBA, but his familiarity with Hinkie and the chance to be the #2 man in Philadelphia would make the decision easy. Gupta後来跑去念书，在这个期间跟随辛基在七六人精算。 It’s not really all that surprising, considering his background in computer science, that Gupta’s role with the Sixers would be characterized by most as being an “analytics guy”, a marginalization rarely done for a team’s second in command. Truth be told Gupta’s role with the Sixers rarely involved hands-on work manipulating code or databases, graduating to become a stakeholder of such systems rather than the architect. 辛基给Gupta对外的职称是数据分析师，但费城内部的消息显示，Gupta并没有参与数据库多少。更多的是利用数据操盘和设计交易。 One of the frequent criticisms of Sam Hinkie’s front office was its lack of traditional “basketball guys” at the top, as none of Hinkie, Gupta, or Ben Falk (VP of Basketball Strategy) played high level basketball. To say that was intentional may be overstating the situation, but it certainly wasn’t something Hinkie seemed to shy away from, either, looking to build the best staff of decision makers he could, not just the smartest collection of basketball minds who happened to have the genetics required to physically compete at an NBA level. 辛基和Gupta在费城的时候常常被质疑，这些菁英出身的管理层不懂球，外行领导内行。 当然，费城之後的成就众所周知。 Michael Carter-Wliiams, fresh off a Rookie of the Year season, was traded at the 2015 trade deadline, a move criticized by many because they traded a “known” commodity (whatever that actually means) for an unknown future reward, highlighting a key fundamental difference in thought process. Teams, more often than not, are unrealistic about the actual value of their players, especially young players, and turn down countless offers that may never become available later on down the line. 止损麦卡威的那笔交易也是Gupta的杰作之一，大部分的球队很容易高估这种类型的新秀，随着时间让他们贬到一文不值。 Perhaps no trade exemplifies an organizational philosophy, and creativity in using their unique cap situation to their advantage to “create luck”, better than the trade with the Sacramento Kings. The trade brought in Nik Stauskas, Carl Landry, Jason Thompson, the right to swap draft picks (at the Sixers’ discretion) in both the 2016 and 2017 drafts, as well as a future draft pick from the Sacramento Kings Gupta设计的、最经典的交易，就是那笔吃两年两千万的垃圾合约，从国王迪爷那里骗(?)来了两年首轮互换、一个无保护首轮。 The right to swap picks with the Kings was viewed by many, perhaps even the Kings themselves, to be worthless, a window dressing addition to the trade that was never going to materialize. The outside view thought there was no chance for the Kings to be worse than the Sixers, who at the time were about to embark on an almost historically bad season. So what’s the point? 很多球队制服组认为首轮互换没有意义，但Gupta反其道而行，他已经从尼克要了一个，这次又从国王里拿到了两个。 While characterized as an “analytics guy”, Gupta was more often than not at the forefront of trade activity with the Sixers, constantly brainstorming trade ideas and with an uncanny ability to look at the trade from the other side and correctly assess their motivations and ambitions, coupled with a deep understanding of the collective bargaining agreement and a creative mind. Depending on relationships with other team, time constraints, and schedule, Gupta would also, from time to time, conduct at least part of the negotiations himself. 在辛基的经典交易之中，Gupta参与了脑力激荡、设计交易方案、精算CBA、以及部分的交易谈判。 In fact, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the Sixers’ front office proceedings, there wasn’t a trade of significance that Gupta didn’t have his hands in, an aspect of the Sixers’ rebuild even their most ardent detractors would almost universally admit was well executed. 费城的消息指出，Gupta参与了交易的所有过程。 “His whole life revolved around that day in February,” one Sixers staffer told me, referring to February’s trade deadline. Those same sources describe Gupta as the driving force behind the Kings’ transaction, a trade which now looks to have set the Sixers up so enviably for the near- and long-term future. 费城的消息源指出，在那笔坑爆迪爷的交易中，是由Gupta主导并完成。 Since leaving the Sixers over the summer Gupta returned to his native Boston area, rediscovering a work/life balance that’s impossibly difficult to maintain in the world of front office executives. He’s remaining close to the Sixers’ ownership group, working as an adviser to their many sports franchises and business dealings. He’s also kept in contact with NBA circles, heading to various events, such as this month’s D-League showcase, the life of an NBA addict with every intention of getting back in the game. Gupta在辛基被开除後离开了七六人，但还是跟前上司们(莫雷、辛基)保持了联系，CP3那笔交易中他应该也参与了设计交易内容、精算CBA等等。 圈内的评价： David Aldridge： Some keep saying there’s "plenty of time" for the Wizards. Meanwhile: The Pels hired David Griffin (PBO)/Trajan Langdon (GM); Minnesota hired Gersson Rosas (PBO)/Sachin Gupta (VPBO); Nets hired Jeff Peterson/Andy Birdsong (assistant GMs). Major talent getting scarfed up. 这次的管理层选人在NBA圈内的评价似乎很高。 这次管理层的改组，可以想见未来的大方向。 Gianluca Pascucci负责选秀、低顺位、发展联盟淘宝 Sachin Gupta和雷登负责设计交易、精算CBA Rosas则是担任主要决策及对外的门面 毕竟前述三位制服组在NBA圈内对於业务能力评价高，但较不擅长和其他队伍交流。 而小桑则是担任将制服组掏来的新秀炼蛊练出可用之兵的任务。 看得出来球队是想往金块、篮网等队的建队模式发展。 插播一个，你狼近期重点考察了後卫NAW、前锋Little的试训。 也试训了若干个顺位15~20左右的射手。 虽然时间很赶，但从这个制服组的构成来说(Rosas也在广播中提到过)，近期可能会有选秀权向下交易的可能。 今年这种小年，如果能多抠到一个次轮是很不错的，也符合球队炼蛊的大方向。 --

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