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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2005 14:47:32 GMT -5
You bring up an interesting point, 'bridge. How is it that in the NFL, MLB and my beloved NHL, if a GM sucks he's generally out the door pretty quick. Yet somehow in the NBA, GM's stick around for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS doing nothing? Making the team worse? Never getting them near the playoffs? Does one year above .500 and a seven or eight seed earn you a decade long pass in the NBA? Unreal.
I'm pretty confident most people (well, basketball fans at least) given the requisite training in collective bargaining agreement interpretation could build better teams than a decent number of the current NBA GM's. I would NOT say the same thing about those other sports (except maybe baseball... especially when you consider the success of some small market teams and the horrid performance of others - i.e. A's versus Royals or Pittsburgh for example).
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Post by Cambridge on Jun 30, 2005 14:50:47 GMT -5
You bring up an interesting point, 'bridge. How is it that in the NFL, MLB and my beloved NHL, if a GM sucks he's generally out the door pretty quick. Yet somehow in the NBA, GM's stick around for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS doing nothing? Making the team worse? Never getting them near the playoffs? Does one year above .500 and a seven or eight seed earn you a decade long pass in the NBA? Unreal. I'm pretty confident most people (well, basketball fans at least) given the requisite training in collective bargaining agreement interpretation could build better teams than a decent number of the current NBA GM's. I would NOT say the same thing about those other sports (except maybe baseball... especially when you consider the success of some small market teams and the horrid performance of others - i.e. A's versus Royals or Pittsburgh for example). Baseball GM's tend to hang around too long too, but you're right, it's amazing how long totally miserable GM's hang on in the NBA. I mean teams that haven't been even within 10 games under .500 in a decade are plugging along with the same front office year in and year out. Makes you wonder about NBA owners...either that or the NBA is frighteningly more profitable than we could ever have imagined.
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