Sport Thoughts

The Brooklyn Nets are currently one of the worst basketball teams in the 2023-2024 NBA season. They have poorly underachieved, fired their head coach and botched the trade deadline. General Manager Sean Marks is responsible for this poorly constructed Nets roster and failed coaching staff. The Nets 2023-2024 roster is flawed but the team problems date back as early as three years ago. Sean Marks problems as General Manager began in January 2021, the year he traded multiple first round draft picks, future All Star Jarret Allen, role players Carris Levert and Taurean Prince for Super Stars James Harden. The future first round draft picks would go to the Houston Rockets, preventing the Nets from owning their own picks in the future. Just one year later, Sean Marks traded a disgruntled James Harden to the Philadelphia 76ers for former multi All Star Ben Simmons. Marks could have kept the Nets big 3 of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden in tact for the 2022 playoffs. He would liste...

Today was a shocking day for the Boston Red Sox front office. The organization parted ways with respected top executive Chaim Bloom. Bloom joined the Boston Red Sox front office following the 2019 MLB season. Bloom took over the front office just one year after the Red Sox won the 2018 World Series. He made several major changes to the Red Sox organization during his 4-year tenure. Bloom will perhaps be most known as the executive who traded away future hall of fame outfielder Mookie Betts for outfielder Alex Verdugo and catcher Connor Wong. In terms of free agent signings, Bloom signed shortstop Trevor Story, third baseman Justin Turner, closer Kenley Janson, outfielders Adam Duvall and Masataka Yoshida during the 2021 and 2022 offseasons. On the postive side of moves, Bloom improved the Red Sox farm system and extended home grown supstar third baseman Rafael Devers. His previous offseason moves were decent but none of the moves improved the team towards contending. Bloom had little t...