Grading the Brooklyn Nets Offseason | Page 7 of 12
Nets sign Thomas Robinson to a multi-year deal
Thomas brings tenacity and energy on the boards and depth to the team’s bench in what may be the best value contract of the offseason. Last season, he averaged 8.8 points and 7.7 rebounds for the Portland Trailblazers.
Grade: A
From the archive. The filing above went up on 28 October 2015. It ran at that length on the day — the desk posted what it had and moved on — and it has not been padded out since, because rewriting an old note to make it look substantial is the one thing an archive must not do.
The piece lives on Opinion, and the section index lists that desk next to the other seven with what each of them holds.
The 2015-16 season contributed 34 pieces to the desk, and this is one of them. The archive is arranged by season, so the whole of that run can be read in the order it was filed.
Why keep it at all, given the length. Because the address still receives readers — out of a search, out of a link in somebody else’s writing, out of a bookmark — and answering them with a redirect to the front page is worse than answering them with the short thing they actually asked for. Every address the old site had was kept when this one was re-set.