The more I think about it the more I think KP needs to dump his Agent. If you are a GM you hate it when a players agent (like Sergio or Rudy's) starts creating distractions. Well this is what Warren LeGarie did. What kind of example is it when the GM's agent is just as bad. If I am Paul Allen, I am pissed right now. It would be hard to get past it when it comes time to negotiating a new contract. If KP wants to keep his job long term, he needs to cut his ties with LeGarie
There's another way to think about this. People speak through their agents right? Isn't it at least plausible that KP signed off on everything that Lagarrie did? Hell, even if it was Lagarrie's idea and got KP to go along with it, what does that say about KP's judgement? The sad truth is that I think this was as much KP's doing as it was his agent, if not Lagarrie would be short one client and KP would have put a ton of distance between himself and his agent -- at least something stronger than "I want to be here...Warren (LeGarie) has his own opinions." I call bullshit; if agents have their own opinions and say things contrary to their clients' wishes or interests they don't stay in business very long.
I agree with you. I don't think it's a matter of KP needing to fire his agent but a matter of why hasn't he done it already?
All the reason to tell LaGarrie good bye. If it was KP's idea and he wants to make it look like it wasn't he needs to say "sorry" to LaGarrie and throw him under the bus to save his job. But I hear what you are saying and if it was KP's idea then Allen will not forgive him. Still his only chance is to fire the agent and even then it may not help.
kpee should be in this video [video=youtube;yLHiWq_Dslo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLHiWq_Dslo&feature=related[/video]
So, why would KP say that stuff through his agent? Obviously it wouldn't make ownership happy. But, what if KP essentially sees the writing on the wall from the non-basketball side that he is "Dead Man Walking"...or maybe he's frustrated at the diminishing amount of control he's being allowed to exercise - especially when he isn't able to save TP's job. He wants to stay because of how much of his hand is on this team - but he also wants the control. So, he throws the "Hail Mary" (of having the agent go public) hoping to drum up support from the public to pressure the ownership/non-basketball side to give him what he wants. There are some troubling/missing pieces in this thinking, but I can't figure out what else it could be. If the agent was talking out of line KP'd be backing WAY off the agent. Also, any agent causing so much trouble for one client (even if done in the defense of another client) would have other clients all over the league questioning his methods. The fact KP has said nothing sure looks like had some hand in what was said...
That's as good of a guess as I've heard, but honestly none of us really know the 'why' we just know the 'how'
Yeah, purely a guess. Now I'm waiting for 2 Blazer tell-all books to come out... #1 The Jail Blazers book that spills the insane dirt that is rumored to be out there about how awful it really was being around them. #2 The much nerdier but equally interesting to me book about the inter-office turmoil happening right now.
