KP turning into the NBA's douchebag?

[GoBlazersGo]

And a clearly very objective one.

Fixed!

 

[bintim]

Why stop there? As far as I'm concerned, yesterday our championship window slammed shut for another 20 years....

and Kevin Pritchard killed 2 newborn puppies with his bare hands.

The bastard! Kittens I could handle, but puppies!

 

[Masbee]

From Yahoo's "Winners and Losers" of the trade deadline:




This is just an addition to the whole Darius Miles fiasco. KP is getting on peoples nerves, including mine, his ego is unbelievable. Pritchard, come back down to Earth!

Nice guys finish first.

Oh, wait.

If people like you because you are kind and sweet, they would never step all over you if you are in the way of what they want.

Oh, wait.

I take it KP doesn't give a rat's ass what the self-appointed chattering classes in the media think of him.

Was he annoying? Sure.

Is KP oblivious to it? I don't think so.

He was suspiciously talking "too much".

I think he was trying for the Grand Slam (ie Caron Butler), and had to talk the value of his assets and all the many options he supposedly had in order to flush out the best offer(s) possible.

Didn't work.

Media hates him even more.

That is KP's job. We want toughness and thick skin in our players. Why not from our GM?

 

[Masbee]

Just to give a bit of an outsider's opinion - I don't think he's a bad GM, I actually think Pritchard is a very good GM. But he's absolutely, positively a douchebag. An unbelievably large douchebag. The Darius Miles situation really sealed it.

I think Henry Abbott's comments on Pritchard after the deadline did a pretty good job of summing it up - he made some calls, felt some teams out and ultimately decided he couldn't rip anybody off. But listening to the way he, more or less, just dicked Thorn around, seemingly changing the offer for Vince every 5 minutes, totally reinforced my opinion of him as a huge douchebag.

You think Thorn was "dicked around" by KP?

Maybe. But, I doubt Thorn would put up with much.

However, the entire league knows that Thorn is a HUGE dick in trade talks. Well established.

So, yeah, whatever. No sympathy for Thorn - who FUCKED us over on the SAR trade back in the day - who is a big boy and can take care of himself.

 

[Tortimer]

It was also rumored Thorn backed out at the last minute on RJ for Zbo and we ended up with Frye.

 

[crandc]

It was Johnny Ludden.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=jy-tradewinnerslosers022009&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

I have no idea who Johnny Ludden is but I sure did not vote him NBA Expert of the Month.

And why did he say "we" in his screed? Does he have a rat in his pocket or something?