Jonny flynn is not derived from a trade with Boston, right? Good stuff!

Shows very handily how the current roster got constructed. I went back a little further to show more transactions (and details, incl. management changes) for the Blazers over a longer timeframe, but that makes it somewhat harder to read, handle and research. I thought about adding another decade, but currently I don’t have the time so I just updated it (will have to add two short-term contracts from the injury exceptions).

In the past I’ve used special applications to handle highly complex charts like that to show relations in processes (or IT landscapes). That might be used to even show cross-connections between teams, but it would probably be quite some work to set up. A site like prosportstransactions might use it to sit on top of their database and visualize it if they were so inclined, they have all the data.

Fellow Blazers blog Bustabucket has done a very nice visualization of all player transfers in the last summer that looks artistically pleasing, like a dreamcatcher. Yet that also would become too crowded when doing it over a long timeframe.