<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Mid-level exceptions are the greatest threat to fiscal sanity for teams, and tend to lead to the most mistakes. They?re available to every team that?s over the salary cap, which is nearly every team, but there aren?t enough worthy free agents available to justify them. Some teams, eager to pacify their eager fans, inevitably reach out and touch the wrong someone. An exceptionally well-connected league insider once told me the story of how Brian Cardinal got his mid-level. Seems Memphis owner Michael Heisley, frustrated by general manager Jerry West?s lack of activity, walked into West?s office one day and asked why he hadn?t signed anyone yet. So an exasperated West picked up his phone, called Cardinal?s agent and offered the mid-level on the spot. Then he turned to Heisley and said something along the lines of ?There, you happy now?? Now nobody in Memphis is happy about Cardinal?s contract _ other than Cardinal, of course. </div> Source: Indy Star Wow.
<div class="quote_poster">bronbron23 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">You got to love Jerry West</div> Why, because he's a jackass? Nothing he's done while at the helm has made any sense. He's driven this team straight into the ground.
