<div align="center"></div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Orlando Sentinel - "In a stunning development, John Weisbrod will step down as general manager and chief operating officer of the Orlando Magic , National Basketball Association sources told the Sentinel today. "They all have been involved in the coaching search from the beginning," said an NBA executive. "From what I've heard, they are close [to naming a coach]." This is not mentioned in the article but it is very possible the new coach is getting a dual role as coach and GM and the coach could very well be Flip Saunders. </div> <div align="center">Source</div> Definitly didn't see it coming. Specially that we're a month away from the draft.
Good, this guy pulled off 2 of the worst trades of all time. Gooden/Verajao/Hunter for Battie, and McGrady for Francis.
Well it was about time .. The guy has been a total dumbass throughout his tenure as the GM. Go back to hockey. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Good, this guy pulled off 2 of the worst trades of all time. Gooden/Verajao/Hunter for Battie, and McGrady for Francis</div> Well from the Rockets' perspective, it was Francis, Christie, and Cato, 2 second round picks in the coming years .. for McGrady, Barry, James, and Howard. He pulled, IMO, a worse trade than the latter. Cuttino for Christie was stupid. Christie is older, Cuttino is a better scorer, and can become a way better defender, if he was pushed to do so. Even if he didn't resign, there's always a chance, especially if they made the playoffs. The best they could've done is do a sign and trade with someone, get a few first rounders, or a guy like Shareef and put him at the 3. Trade Francis for a legit big-man, or a first rounder and some change. Send him to the Clippers .. Sterling and Baylor aren't too smart. PG: Nelson SG: Hedo SF: Abdur-Rahim PF: Howard C: Brand? Wilcox? I'm just rationalizing, the Francis trade could've happened two seasons ago, but now .. maybe. The S&T with Cat and SAR is very possible, they should've considered resigning Mobley before they decided to trade him.. Just my 2 cents.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting magnomonkey:</div><div class="quote_post">He pulled, IMO, a worse trade than the latter. Cuttino for Christie was stupid. Christie is older, Cuttino is a better scorer, and can become a way better defender, if he was pushed to do so.</div>Forgot about that one. This guy pulled two trades where he got the worst player out of it. I understand the McGrady trade, it had to be done. But in the Battie trade, he managed to get possibly the worst player out of the 4 (battie) and he clearly got the inferior player in the Mobley trade. This team is left with enough good talent to be contenders again with a few nice moves.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting briang8818:</div><div class="quote_post">Forgot about that one. This guy pulled two trades where he got the worst player out of it. I understand the McGrady trade, it had to be done. But in the Battie trade, he managed to get possibly the worst player out of the 4 (battie) and he clearly got the inferior player in the Mobley trade. This team is left with enough good talent to be contenders again with a few nice moves.</div> that guy is an idiot, how the hell did he get the job, wait i know... still he is an idiot and he put the magic is a terrible position, he made them worse and worse year by year.
Yeah that Battie trade was pretty stupid. They could have had a nice backcourt set for years with Howard, Varejao, and Gooden.
