multiple reports coming from all over the NBA saying that other GM's don't like KP.. they say he believes his own press clippings, brags about having a Billionaire owner with unlimited resources.. and just acts like an Ass in general... The NBA is different than Ford vs Chevy.. its not win at all costs.. NBA franchises are business partners.. you must be able to develop relationships that are based on trust and mutual respect.. burning bridges by sending threatening emails (Memphis), insulting them (the Pritch-Slap nonsense) and trying to "bully" them into making deals that only benefit one team (Utah w/ the toxic Milsap offer) is just simply bad business. Bad business always comes back to get you in the end. Always.
No, according to this ***** it should be "links." MILLIONS OF THEM! Wow. I love this site because it's so much more relaxed than BBF or other sites, but when we *know* someone is a troll why can't we just ban them permanently?
KP's job is not to be liked - it is to manage the roster/coaching staff to make Portland a better team and at one time - a contender. If his reputation is so bad that he never makes anything happen - he fails. So far, he most certainly got a lot to happen for this team to bring it from 21 wins to 54. There are, I am certain, several GMs that do not like KP - and there are some that I have heard publicly express their admiration to the job he has done. So, at this point - who really cares. KP needs to make this team better. If some GMs do not like him because he will not give the cap-space/expiring and good prospects for the aging, long-term crap contract - so be it.
I've never seen/heard KP act like an ass. When? If it's not, it should be. KP didn't send the e-mail. KP has stated before the he doesn't like the 'Prichslap' bs. I've never heard him say that. If you're buying into the 'bullying' bs coming from the Jazz, I've got some swampland for sale. Utah allowed PM to become a RFA, which allows other teams to do whatever they can to get him. They need to shut up and nut up, because nobody put them in the position their in but them. What bad business?
C'Mon, look at players that the Jazz have. Okur for one. You don't think that Detroit wanted to keep him back in the day? Utah grossly overpaid for him. Look at the Lakers when they signed Shaq away from the Magic. It happens all the time is this league. Basically the national media thinks that only certain teams are allowed to bully other teams and get away with it. LA is allowed to all of the time. NY has used its market and means to try and steal players. It is a business. As far as the Pritchslap nonsense, that came from the fans. I don't believe that KP coined it. Maybe he thought it was funny when he heard it, but it was. Nobody in this league gives you players just because they like you. You think if KP came off as being less arrogant that other teams would have given him a lopsided trade? They aren't going to unless they have to from a financial standpoint. I believe we could have had Richard Jefferson if we wanted him, but KP had his sight set on Turkey. Should we be mad at TOR for having the arrogance to come in and steal Turkey when we had a verbal agreement with him? Is TOR a "bad" business partner? Sorry, it's a business, and a cut-throat business at that. Look at all the teams circling like sharks to try and pry LBJ from the Cavs. I could care less what the national media thinks, or other GM's think. They aren't out to help us.
This is a legitimate topic of conversation... David Aldridge, Wojo and other national columinsts who break tons of deals in the NBA have flat out said that other GM's don't like KP and are reluctant to deal with him.. that is BAD business. If you don't like the topic - don't respond. If you have anything of value to add (highly doubtful as I have read your posts before) .. feel free to do so.
youre right.. we should have offered Millsap less money, The goal is to have the team match your offer. And Utah should just match now instead of waiting till Friday, because that would be the nice thing to do, that way we dont have our money tied up and can go after another FA.
Really? Tell that to Exxon mobile and Occidental Oil. Their whole campaign of worldwide terror, murder, extortion, collusion with the Nazi's and nastiness since the Standard Oil days doesn't seem to be effecting their profit margins much.
We don't want Milsap.. there is ZERO chance Milsap comes here and the Blazers know that. The only purpose of that contract was to force Utah into trading Boozer for scraps or have to pay the Lux Tax. It was a shot at a rival opponent simply to anger them. Bad business.
or to get Hinrich maybe.. You and I have the same amount of inside info, so we really dont know. Also KP did something along the same lines to get Roy if I remember right... did that bother you too? And how do you know we dont want Millsap?
Simply to anger them? That's simply insane. KP might have been playing hardball and trying to force them to unload Boozer hoping to get in on a 3-way trade or to overpay Millsap and limit their options. It was not simply to anger them. If the NBA is so full of honest wonderful GM's then how do you explain Chris Wallace hosing our capspace? Toronto snatching Turkoglu etc. etc. etc. Why aren't some of the humanitarian of the year GM's out there offering fair value for Boozer? Oh that's right because it's a cutthroat business. Any illusions I had about that were wiped away by Chris Wallace signing Miles just to fuck us.
The Miles signing in Memphis is another example of how teams do not like KP and will go out of their way to get over on him... it pays to have good relationships with your business partners in the NBA. KP may be a good judge of talent in the draft - but there is more to the game than that. I hope he has the skills to finish what he has started here in Portland. I have doubts.
One more thing about the NBA being business partners. If that is the case then the NFL, and MLB should be the same. Look at what the Minnesota Vikings did to the Seahawks a couple of years ago. Steve Hutchinson was only 25 and arguably the best LG in football. The Vikings prepared a "poison pill" clause stating that if any RB on the team made more than Hutch than the entire 7 year contract was guaranteed. They knew the Seahawks had just signed Shaun Alexander to a long-term deal, and Minnesota had very poor talent at running back (prior to Adrian Peterson). Due to the way that the Salary Cap works in the NFL it made it nearly impossible for Seattle to match the offer (Hutch was a RFA). Have the Vikings been black-balled for it by the other GM's? No! It has completely decimated Seattle's running game, but nobody else around the league cares. I think comparing the NBA to the NFL is much more accurate than Ford vs. Chevy. Like I said, it is a cut-throat business. KP swooped into the 2006 draft when the entire NBA was saying how poor of a draft it was and were trying to trade down and out, and he targeted what has turned out to be 2 of the best players in the draft and turned our franchise around. As far as Memphis goes, it is hard to believe that they are not colluding with the Lakers. They gave them Gasol (probably should have been stopped by the league office), they signed Miles when they really had no use for him (cut him this off-season). They are a garbage franchise. I have no respect for them. That is the GM that out to be black-balled. He doesn't operate in the best interest of his fans even. I say, Thank God for KP.
Since when are small market teams the big bad bullies? This is ridiculous. If Memphis can sign Miles for no other reason than to mess up our capspace, we're certaintly within our right to go after the best player available in FA. Nobody called Cuban a big bad bully for trying to sign Gortat. IMO, if the Blazers really wanted Utah to match, and we're just doing this to anger them, they wouldn't have gone and added the huge money up front, etc. The contract seems actually designed to try and prevent them from matching. I have no doubt some GM's are jelous of KP and his success, that means he's doing his job.
