I ended up spending a solid amount of MT on Magic and Hakeem , but thanks for the tips ! I considered the Suns collection a while back because I ' d love that Hornacek card big time . His sapphire card was my number one blacktop card so having a boosted version would be great . Hayes I definitely badged up , but I hesitate to put Marion on the bench to be honest . Most guys have a deathly talented starting group , so I want to be sure to have strong defenders throughout . I feel like Kiki is situational at times because he ' s a bit too slow . If I saw Bob for 80 k I would have pooped . Never have I seen him less than 95 <| sep |> Why didn ' t events like Mongol invasions shatter those centralized states ? They did , to be sure . But centralization had been waning for long periods even before the old order was swept away entirely . Whether we ' re talking about the Zhou , the Han , the Tang , the Song , or the Ming , Chinese dynastis tended to drift away from strong central authority at their own peril and yet nevertheless that drive was always present . In large part , probably , because the sheer size of the realm made that centralization a truly monumental task to maintain , and all the more so because there was a constant pull toward decentralization from officials who wanted their own piece of the pie , and increasingly ineffective pull back toward centralization over the life of a dynasty thank to the genetic diceroll that often is monarch helped along by palace officials who for their own reasons and motivation personally benefitted from keeping a weak invalid on the throne as a rubber stamp . But in terms of the Mongols vs . Goths question , the mongol replaced a weak centralized state with a strong centralized state and were swept away once they themselves began decentralizing too much whereas in Western Europe there was no single strong confederation of Germanic tribes forming a European Khannate the closest you get is the Carolingian Empire of Charlemagne , and that was cobbled togther some 4 centuries after Western Roman authority crumbled .