First-annual Atrocious GM Summit

by **Amphatoast** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:13 am

link

good read for all those who bash GM for lopsided trades and moves. ( shaq trade, layden moves, isiah moves, VC trade, etc.)

by **Fenix** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:15 am

You beat me to it. Great read.

King: Just look at what I've done in Philly: Since we made the 2001 Finals, I gave Mutombo a $68 million extension even though he could have been, like, 48 years old for all we knew. I gave $35.5 million to Aaron McKie. I gave $29 million to Eric Snow. I gave $18 million to Greg Buckner. I gave $40 million to Kenny Thomas and $25 million to Brian Skinner. I gave $25 million to Kyle Korver and $60 million to Sam Dalembert last summer. That's $300 million of contracts to guys who were either on the decline or never that good in the first place. Plus, I traded for other bad contracts, guys like Keith Van Horn, Glenn Robinson, Kevin Ollie, you name it. And then, last February, the pinnacle -- dumping three bad contracts for C-Webb, who everyone thought couldn't be traded because of his contract and because he ran with a limp. Now we have an aging team built around two past-their-prime stars and our cap space is killed through 2008. And we completely wasted Iverson's prime, when he was one of the best players of his generation.

by **Its_asdf** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:21 am

Entertaining. Although I'm not a fan of the Carter trade bashing on Babcock, I think that it was pretty funny.

by **maes** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:23 am

Sad but true.

People whine about Kobe's supporting cast recently, but AI had to deal with the same crap for his entire career and still made it to the Finals. They even lost a Finals game because whats-his-name blew a wide open uncontested two handed dunk in the final moments.

by **Fenix** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:25 am

maes wrote:Sad but true.

People whine about Kobe's supporting cast recently, but AI had to deal with the same crap for his entire career and still made it to the Finals. They even lost a Finals game because whats-his-name blew a wide open uncontested two handed dunk in the final moments.

I don't believe Lakers have anything remotely resemblant to a younger (45 years old) Mutombo, Eric Snow, Mckie or any other quality player from that Philly team.

by **Buckley** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:36 am

wow nice article....

simmons is rite on the money when hes talking about king giving away money. greg buckner, brian skinner, damn.

at least king doesnt make dumb trades (isiah)

by **dada** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:38 am

I was just about to post this. I am a bit late though and I havent finished reading it yet. Pretty funny stuff.

by **1CenT** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:01 am

lol awsome article, it was darn funny

by **maes** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:36 pm

best line:

Weisbrod: Passing up Andre Iguodala for a 24 year-old center who averaged 0.1 blocks per game in college and runs like a duck … I just thought that was brilliant.

by **artestfighttrainer** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:01 pm

Philly are in the shit. I reckon cwebb and ai still capable but they def. need better role players and bench. they need a better sf, korver only good at 3's and salmons is not that good

by **Matt** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:25 pm

gave Kevin Ollie $15 million over five years. Now, he's a below-average guard with no real skills -- if you rated a point guard in eight different categories, he's probably a C-minus or below in each of them.

that's not as bad a deal as he makes it sound. Ollie is a very good defensive player, man to man and team defense and his offense is passable. He knocks down the open shot and isn't too bad at going to the rack. Just the type of role player championship teams need.

by **Its_asdf** on Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:48 pm

A role player of Ollie's caliber for 5 mill a year? You're shitting me. Point guards will never get any PT in Philly as long as AI is playing 40+ minutes a game.