Interesting bit over at Hoopsworld touches KP situation

There is a blurb over on hoopsworld.com that mentions the Nuggets are looking at hiring a Clippers executive to replace Warkentein, who is expected to head to Portland. I don't know how much of it is true though, because who in their right mind would hire anybody from the Clippers organization.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/HeadlineStories.asp?lc=NBA&c=1&TEAM_ID=&PLAYER_ID=&hd=20100415#STORY_25500

 

Dunleavy FTW!!!

 

They mentioned some guy I had never heard of before.

 

Can someone please explain to me again why Paul Allen would even think of getting rid of Pritchard? I think I heard an explanation once, but it must not have made sense because I can't remember it. Pritchard is one of the best things that ever happened to this franchise, and I can't imagine him getting shipped out.

 

Because he thinks that KP and Penn duped him into paying Penn's contract at a much higher inflated rate than should have happened, by misrepresenting an offer from Minnesota and making it much larger than it really was. If that is the case, I don't blame him for being mad. It is no different than stealing from Paul Allen, is it not?

 

The language regarding that fat fuck Warkentien was that he "expressed a desire to head to Portland", which is different than "heading to Portland".

 

also for a few other things have been speculated like playing both sides during the Roy contract, trying to pay Hedo a massive amount, and talking to everyone about how he is underpaid.

Are these real reasons? I have no idea.

 

Lots of people from the Blazer organization have stolen from Paul Allen

Ruben Patterson
Zach Randolph
Damon Stoudamire
Darius Miles
Theo Ratliff
Raef LaFrentz
etc.
etc.

Penn, by comparison, was cheap.

 

There is a huge difference between overpaying in an honest situation, like with the players, vs. overpaying because people were lying and deceiving you.

 

The difference being, with the NBA collective bargaining agreement, there was nothing Paul could do with those guys. But with Penn, he can. Nobody likes being swindled. I am pretty sure if the NBA would have allowed the Blazers to cut those guys outright, it would have happened.

 

If the Blazers fire KP and bring in Warkenstein, I'm giving him no margin for error. He better be perfect. Hell, I'll probably rip him before he even makes a deal. I imagine Quick and Canzano will be all over him as well.

 

Did any of you hear the clip relating to the Blazers from an interview with David Stern that they played on 95.5 yesterday? I couldn't help but note that Stern acknowledged the Blazers for becoming a model franchise and gave credit to Larry Miller and his crew for the transformation. No mention at all of KP that I heard. I have a hard time believing that the omission was accidental. KP's toast.

 

He hasn't done everything right, but to fire Pritchard based on the Penn situation is asinine...

Paul Allen is a fucking idiot if he fires KP.......

Roy, LA, Batum, signing Howard, nabbing Camby & Miller...Camby & Miller are the reason this team is the fucking playoffs...

and Cunningham & Pendergraph have also shown themselves to be astute 2nd round pickups w\o the injury concerns of a guy named Blair that some of you can't resist harping about...

Yeah so fire your GM for taking this injury plagued group and acquiring key veteran pieces that allowed them to make the playoffs regardless....

 

I would say Theo at least engaged in the blatant deception of pretending to give a shit before getting a big contract.

 

Well Larry Miller is the President, KP is just the GM.

The guy up top get's the credit for turning around the company.

 

Yep they do. And in my corporate experience, very few of them have anything to do with it. Except for collecting a way overfat paycheck.

 

If we DO get rid of Pritchard and replace hm with Warkentein (which would be idiotic) I at least hope Warkentein trades Ty Lawson to Portland before he comes here.

 

Is Wankstain the guy who gets credit for building the current "Thuggets?"

If so, can't wait for the return of herb smoking, fan hating, wankster, malcontents.

It's been a while. I kind of miss it.

 

The only good theory I've heard is that Paul Allen doesn't think Pritchard is going to be able to push the team over the top. Paul thinks that KP's done a good job putting together a talented enough team, but that when push comes to shove he's not going to be able to make the deals that are necessary to put us into championship contention.

Maybe Paul thinks Warkentein is the guy. But if they do that I'm gonna be PISSED that they didn't just make him GM back in 2003 rather than forcing us to suffer through the Patternash era.

 

Kind of like why Van Halen broke up (or Guns and Roses) . . . too many big egos.

PA is not a guy who likes to get pushed around or will tolerate insubordination. I suspect in this case a little bit of both was going on and PA has too big of an ego to let it go eventhough KP is good for the organization . . . that is my take.