Paul George, Chris Paul and the Warriors’ ticking clock

Executing trades in the modern NBA can be difficult, Mike Dunleavy Jr. pointed out at his pre-draft press conference. All teams have smart front offices with quantitative models and analytics departments. The new collective bargaining agreement complicates deals for high-payroll teams in a number of punitive ways.

A blockbuster trade gets even trickier when there’s an artificial deadline and the whims of a superstar to react to.

Paul George has emerged, if the reports and rumors are to believed...