<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Press Release - Kroenke Sports Enterprises announced today that Nuggets General Manager Kiki Vandeweghe and Owner Stan Kroenke met to discuss Vandeweghe's contract status with the Denver Nuggets ."After meeting with Kiki today, we agreed his contract will not be extended. We appreciate the time he spent with the Nuggets and wish him good luck as he seeks out his next challenge," said Kroenke. "We remain focused on attaining our goal of establishing a team that consistently competes at the highest levels and will make every effort to achieve that goal.""I am truly grateful to Mr. Kroenke for the opportunity he gave me and for everything I have learned from this experience," said Vandeweghe. "I am excited about moving in a new direction."</div>LINKKiki Vandeweghe is not comming back as Nuggets GM. WOnder how this will affect him.
It has little to do with Kiki not finding a shooter. It has a lot to do with owner Stan Kroenke and his meddling ways. Kroenke signs the checks and felt that he should have more say in personel matter. Bad choice Stan. Hopefully Stan realizes this and actually hires a basketball person instead of doing a GM by committee type of thing.Kiki will find a job. Portland seems interested. If Isiah gets fired he could land in NY. I just hope Stan doesn't mess up the foundation and all the good will Kiki brought to the Nuggets.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LUD @ May 5 2006, 08:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I just hope we find a good replacement.</div>I hear Isaiah Thomas is looking for a new team.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 5 2006, 09:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Kiki sucks, if you take out him drafting Carmelo Anthony he's done nothing worth mentioning.</div>Except for stealing Najera, Camby + Nene, Patterson + Evans, drafting Klieza and most importantly making the Nuggets a playoff team again.
I'm sorry but thats not very impressive. Without the picking of Carmelo this team would still be in the dumps, outside of Carmelo the team really isn't that good. He's not put this team in a position to win by not signing a scorer or a shooter.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 10 2006, 03:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm sorry but thats not very impressive. Without the picking of Carmelo this team would still be in the dumps, outside of Carmelo the team really isn't that good. He's not put this team in a position to win by not signing a scorer or a shooter.</div>I'm not saying he is perfect, because he isn't. He's made a lot of mistakes (see pro vs. con post).But he was/is better than over 50% of the GM's in the league today.
kiki needed to go...carmelo was his only high point, maybe bringing in Martin, but that really hasnt panned out either...time for a change
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ender @ May 11 2006, 02:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm not saying he is perfect, because he isn't. He's made a lot of mistakes (see pro vs. con post).But he was/is better than over 50% of the GM's in the league today.</div> What has he done to justify that statment? Nothing.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 12 2006, 01:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What has he done to justify that statment? Nothing.</div>He made the Nuggets a playoff team. A team that matters in the NBA again. Look at the status of 50% of the teams in the league. They are worse to much worse then the Nuggets.How can anyone say he has done nothing? That is ridiculous.I'm not saying he should stay, but I am only in favor of letting someone go IF there is a better option out there. Kiki had quite a bit of room for improvement, but he still did a lot.
He had nothing to do with it, Carmelo Anthony fell to him and thats why they are a playoff team, other than that he's done nothing.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 14 2006, 06:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He had nothing to do with it, Carmelo Anthony fell to him and thats why they are a playoff team, other than that he's done nothing.</div>ok I agree, he just got 'Melo, Andre, Camby, Najera, and Elson all for good deals.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 14 2006, 06:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He had nothing to do with it, Carmelo Anthony fell to him and thats why they are a playoff team, other than that he's done nothing.</div>Only Anthony? hahahahaha. Then why didn't Paul Pierce take the Celtics to the playoffs in the watered down East? Your statement is ridiculous. Camby, Nene, Miller, Boykins, Martin, Najera, Evans, Patterson, Elson all have played a HUGE role in the Nuggets getting to the playoffs the last 3 years (at various times). All were brought in by Kik.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 15 2006, 10:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He had nothing to do with it, Carmelo Anthony fell to him and thats why they are a playoff team, other than that he's done nothing.</div><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>He turned one of the laughingstock franchises in sports into a playoff team by engineering one of the largest salary dumps in NBA history, then using the salary-cap space to later sign free agents such as Kenyon Martin, Andre Miller, Marcus Camby and Earl Boykins.</div>http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci_3791380He got rid Van Exel, Posey, LaFrentz. He traded away McDyess for Camby and Nene. With the salary dump we were able to sign those players including re-signing Camby. Without him doing that, I think we would have been the Knicks, a team filled with overpaid, grumbling players. What's more, he picked the colors for our current baby-blue jersey... he won fans back. :beerchug:I heard he was close to signing Arenas back in 2003, but Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke cancelled the offer because he didn;t think Arenas deserved it (?) so Vandeweghe had no option than signing the best left available, Andre Miller, who in my opinion didn't turn out so bad for us.Aside of giving K-Mart big money, Nikoloz and Nene drafting over Amare, I think he'd fare better than most GMs in the L.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nba dogmatist @ May 5 2006, 07:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>that's what he gets for not finding a shooter.</div>yup
