I think Jim Brown is a good parallel. He played 9 seasons, same as MJ before his first retirement, before retiring at the age of 30. He is still considered to be the greatest running back in NFL history and probably top 5 player of all time. I think Jordan would have been viewed the same way.
Anything involving Pacers. Great offense, exciting young players, lots of ball movement, a joy to watch. Also, their defense keeps the games close for added excitement.
Do you take into account the cost of renting/buying a home? Cost of school/childcare (yay Canada) ? Cost of healthcare (yay Canada again)? Hurricane/flooding insurance? So no, taxes should not be included as they capture only a part of living costs specific to an area.
Less this year. As mentioned, Lillard and Giannis are on the same team. I’d expect SGA to drop as OKC gets better and his teammates take up more of a scoring load. Luka may drop as well with Kyrie there for a full season.
I think it’s pretty much any two players whose added NBA rankings are above 6. Jokic makes scrubs look like competent NBA players and competent players into stars. Will Barton went from averaging 15 PGG on Denver to washing out of the league in one year. Aaron Gordon went from 50% effective FG% in Orlando to 58% with Denver. This man makes everyone on the team so much better it almost doesn’t matter who the other players are.
I don’t see a jump from last year, his stats are virtually the same. 15.9 vs 14.9 PPG last year, 53.1 vs 53.7 eFG%, 0.375 vs 0.370 3-pt. Per 36 number may look a bit better since his minutes are down a bit, but this is small sample size.
Frankly, Knicks should be able to resign him in the $15-20M range. He is a great 6th man, but I am not sure he’d be a starter on a top-6 team, not unless he shows more. His options will be limited because most of the offers will be at the mid-level, I am not sure that teams with salary cap room will be willing to shell it out for him.