By trading away its second star, LeBron James’s team has become even better

“IF IT ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” the old adage goes. And the Cleveland Cavaliers of North America’s National Basketball Association (NBA) are very, very far from broken: they have reached the finals for three consecutive years, and in 2016 won the first championship for a major professional sports team in the city in over half a century. Nonetheless, on August 22nd Koby Altman, who was named the club’s general manager less than a month earlier, took the bold step of breaking up the Cavaliers’ core, by trading Kyrie Irving (pictured, left), their star point guard, to the Boston Celtics. In exchange, Mr Altman received a package of three players headlined by Isaiah Thomas (right),...Continue reading