How Basketball Free Agent Negotiations Resemble the Mergers & Acquisitions Market
The annual basketball free agent frenzy that started June 30 caused its own fireworks before Independence Day.
For those who follow this, it’s a shuffle akin to Whac-a-Mole® in which select players suddenly pop up having signed to new teams. Fans losing beloved players to other cities go through a grieving process of shock, acceptance, then hope that the replacement will perform at least as well as the dearly departed one now about to set up shop with the Brooklyn Nets.
