Cody Zeller to NOP

Jul 6, 20232023-24free agent signingplayer page →transaction →

Pre-move team need

Available

Listed top needs: rim protection, interior finish, shooting.

Incoming player's observed functions

Medium Mixed Coverage

Strongest prior functions: rim protection, screening, rim pressure.

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

Measured need alignment

Partial need alignment

Matched needs: rim protection. Match ratio 33%.

Some, but not all, of the incoming player's strongest observed functions matched leading pre-move needs.

Post-move role & workload

Role partly appeared after the move

Post-move strongest functions: rim protection, rebounding, passing. Realized overlap 33%.

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 $3.20M — 2.3% of the cap

Authority context

Exact basketball authority match

Lead executive: David Griffin. 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: 2workload function count: 2interaction function count: 2transaction 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