Heard this guy is a comer. Probably unattainable, though....... http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3658571 http://www.foxsportshouston.com/06/...shine/landing.html?blockID=258173&feedID=3803
Pritchard inherited a team rich with top lottery picks and even lucked into the #1 pick. Then he traded away a future all-star for nothing. He grossly overpays contract extensions of young players. He has more financial resources than all but a couple other NBA teams. Yet KP's team has achieved less than the Nuggets.
Pritchard turned one lottery pick into Aldridge and Roy with Telfair being the trade bait to Ainge. Give the guy at least a little bit of credit. The Clippers always have lottery picks, yet they continue to be terrible.
Probably has something to do with his agent. But that seems like an important question. He was the exec of the year in 08-09 and one summer later they don't give him a contract extension? I mean, if we're to listen to his publicist, 'the Woj', Warkentien is the 2nd coming of Christ, so something isn't adding up. He seems competent enough, I don't really have a better idea (except keeping KP), but it seems odd.
You give Wark no credit for maintaining a team in the playoffs in spite of economic restrictions... but you claim that the Clippers are a reason KP should get credit for turning terrible records into good players? That's silly. Ed O.
Denver had the eight highest payroll last year at $75 mil. I'm not sure their "economic restrictions" are exactly... restricting. And the Blazers won the same number of games in the playoffs with the league's lowest payroll last year.
