Bottom line is that he WAS a good development coach, but there are actually a lot of good development coaches.
Bro, that leak may have been more damaging than what was shown publicly. Maybe multiple deals were dropped immediately after. This could be major loss of revenue for ticket sales, national media, etc. If any employee loses millions for 1 mistake, they are fired. Pure and simple
If it was practically a fait accompli that Aldridge was leaving then you can bet that his agent had told several teams, which means other agents around the league were aware of it too. Losing free agents because of this seems like a stretch since the entire agent community and their clients would be aware of what was happening behind the scenes.. Yes, Hughes fucked up, but I think you're overstating how damaging it actually was.
Yup, they were trying to close on Monroe when that news came out. He quite possibley set the franchise back years with his off the cuff remark. I think he was most likely just regurgitating the ESPN story, but damn what a dumb thing to do. If Greg was inclined to sign here he was probably like "What?" "LA's leaving?" "That's not what you told me!".
Reminds me of the halycon days of my youth: "how dare the press report we are bombing Laos - that's classified!" Except that the Laotions already knew, and the Vietnamese, and the Chinese, and the Russians. The only people who didn't know were the American public...so how is that a secret? LMA's agent had already told every GM in the league that his guy was going to be on the market. He probably told them a year or more ago. The only people who didn't know the truth was US.
I'm not basing it on just out team. This is the business. Think if Paul Allen went in the meeting at IBM and said "We really don't have an OS".
Except in your example IBM would already be aware of this. Aldridge moving was not some "sooper sekrit." Once Batum was traded and no offers were extended to Matthews, Rolo, we traded for Plumlee, etc. it becomes really easy to deduce what's happening if you aren't looking at events through the lens of being a fan.
I work at a university, and yes, there are certain things I can't do - even once - or they'll fire me. My son works at a gas station, and yes, there MANY things he can't do - even once - or they'll fire him. I've talked to a company that makes detectors. They are very secretive about the exact formula they used in their detectors. You can bet that if a tech or engineer facebooks their formula, they are fired. Any time there is proprietary information involved, you can get fired for violating it, even once. What do you do? Is there NOTHING you can't do without being fired for doing even once?
Better analogy, Seal team 6 tells the president of Pakistan that we know where Bin Laden is and will invade your country tomorrow...that would be the honest thing to do right?
I just retired from an OSEA job in Oregon after 14 years and for all 14 years I could not wear a political button or publicly call any politician an asshole...freedom is great but if you want to keep your job....Nobody looks good in brown lipstick
If this were true, then we wouldn't have even a shot at Monroe. There would be no reason for him to take our call. We can assume everyone knew with the hindsight glasses, but not one person actually called it. If that were the case, no one would be glued in to the Twitter feeds on his decision.
I'm a war vet, my analogies have my life behind them whether they suit your sports cause or not. The point is that careers have parameters and you could talk about working at Disneyland and have a similar analogy..
You do know that Monroe would have found out that LA was gone before any contracts were signed, right? That's what a "moratorium" is.
There's nothing wrong with taking our call, the more people bidding for your services the higher the price you can demand. My guess is that the Blazers were pretty frank and said, "Hey, would you like to be our 1b to Lillard's 1a for the foreseeable future?" not, "Hey would you like to backup LaMarcus and be our third option for max money?" At which point Monroe looked at the overall quality of Milwaukee's roster and compared it to our and made a decision.
During the nba FA Moratorium employeesz of nba teams are not allowed to comment on free agency, my guess is if they don't fire him for it the blazers recieve a huge fine from the league.