Joakim Noah to NYK

Jul 8, 20162016-17free agent signingplayer page →transaction →

Pre-move team need

Withheld No Prior Team Need Baseline

No listed top needs are available at the decision date.

The database withheld this conclusion because the required evidence or coverage was not available.

Incoming player's observed functions

Limited

Strongest prior functions: passing, creation, rim protection.

Stable front-end label for the underlying evidence state; inspect the supporting relation for the measured fields and evidence boundary.

Measured need alignment

Withheld No Prior Team Need Baseline

No listed top-three need was matched by the player's strongest prior functions. Match ratio 0%.

The database withheld this conclusion because the required evidence or coverage was not available.

Post-move role & workload

Role partly appeared after the move

Post-move strongest functions: rebounding, rim protection, passing. Realized overlap 67%.

Some of the player's strongest prior functions appeared after the acquisition, while others did not.

Asset price

Not Applicable Nontrade Acquisition

No outgoing assets recorded

Stable front-end label for the underlying evidence state; inspect the supporting relation for the measured fields and evidence boundary.

Contract / cap cost

Available

Selected player charge $17.0M — 18.1% of the cap

Authority context

Exact basketball authority match

Lead executive: Phil Jackson. regime page →

The decision date falls inside one resolved basketball-authority regime for this team.

Shared-floor evidence

Shared-floor and workload evidence after the move.

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Fit, role realization, price, authority and post-move usage are parallel evidence lanes; none is a decision-quality or causal verdict.

observed_acquisition_not_inferred_intent; prior_season_need_proxy; post_role_is_hindsight; realized_same_window_market_not_rumor_universe

CoverageResolved

withheld: falseresolved acquisition: truecontext function count: 3workload function count: 3interaction function count: 3transaction context present: false

Supporting relations (6)

gb_state.frontend_acquisition_review_v
gb_state.frontend_current_transaction_player_movement_v
gb_transactions.asset_move
gb_state.authority_regime_portfolio_function_lineup_interaction_state_v
gb_state.authority_regime_portfolio_function_lineup_context_state_v
gb_state.authority_regime_portfolio_function_workload_transfer_state_v