How Paul Pierce's Game Has Eroded Since Last Season

Paul Pierce is 35 years old. He has now been in the league for 15 years and has logged over 39,000 minutes of playing time. That is essentially the equivalent of playing basketball non-stop for 28 days in a row. That is how much mileage Pierce has on his body. So, it's only natural that the skills of the future Hall of Famer are going to erode. This is not a knock on Pierce. This is just the natural course of events, and the fact that he is still a fringe All-Star caliber player at this stage of...