Per reports of late, he might not be long for that position. Imagine that, he's alienating the fanbase at Texas.
I strongly disagree. LMA sent out strong signals in June of 2013 that he wanted out. Maybe canceling all his PDX endorsements and selling his Lake Oswego house and renting Damon's West Linn home in July of that year were too subtle. Bottom line -- you don't let your prime franchise player walk for nothing. Miami gave up a combo of five 1st/2nd's and a $16m TPE for Lebron. Minnesota received the #1 overall pick + TPE for Love. Orlando received a HUGE package of assets for Dwight. This isn't Greg Monroe, you don't let LMA walk. If you didn't have the foresight to see this - you're blind. Neil should be on the hot seat. I'm glad Canzano is going in on Neil.
And HERE we go AGAIN!!!! Pretty sure that each half of the board can recite the other half's position on this by heart. Just fricking let it go.
Nah, that would be Sam Hinkie who drafted Joel Embiid with the 3rd pick in June of 2014 draft AFTER it was announced Embiid had broken the navicular bone in his right foot, would need surgery and miss the entire 2014-15 season. Or maybe it was July 2013 when Hinkie traded Jrue Holiday to NOH for Nerlens Noel who had torn his ACL in February 2013, missed the NCAA tournament was expected to miss all, or most, of the 2013-14 season. In just three years as an NBA GM, Sam Hinkie has clearly established himself as the master of the preseason tank. BNM
Noel's injury was a freak accident. That move is turning out to be brilliant. Noel for Jrue is robbery.
Still, it was clear, by trading his best player for a guy who was going to miss the entire season, that Hinkie was tanking in July, 2013 - and again in June 2014 when he drafted a player that had JUST announced he'd broken his foot and needed season ending surgery. Noel looks to be panning out, Embiid, not so much. BNM
Without going on and on about this...I just don't think he is that good of a GM. He's had a ton of missed opportunities and I think much like in the way Nate was exposed as a coach and hasn't been able to recover from it. Neil has been exposed as a General Manager. Going back to the Chris Paul trade back in his time with the Clippers. I really feel that was more about Stern and his drive to help NO and to get Paul in a larger market than it was about Neil pulling a rabbit out of his hat. Which I have never seen out of him here.
He landed a great prospect in Vonleh for a sputtering Batum. With the foresight, he could've landed a nice package for LMA. He set this franchise back years for hoping medicore moves like Afflalo/Kaman/Wright would put this team over the top and convince LA to stay.
Although it wasn't the reason Kaman was signed, his mentoring of our young bigs, may make the Kaman signing a brilliant move and money well spent. Heck the improvement we saw out of Meyers alone last year made it worth having Kaman on the roster. Kaman worked with him in the off season and was constantly in his ear during games. I can only imagine how practicing against Kaman on a daily basis helped Meyers' development. But yeah, Afflalo (especially) and Wright were disappointing. BNM
Afflalo/Kaman/Wright (ok, not so much Wright) put us in the conversation at the top. Wesley's Achilles failed, not Olshey.
Olshey said himself in hos presser he told both Blake and Kaman their contracts would be attractive to other teams, and Blake said he was told to expect a trade. I would assume Kaman was told the same thing since Neil made a point to bring it up.
I thought if we didn't trade him before some July date he was guarAnteed. I short handed the decision not to do anything as resigning. That wasn't totally accurate.
