Maybe we start getting some answers.

[Blazer_Hippie]

There's another way to think about this. People speak through their agents right? Isn't it at least plausible that KP signed off on everything that Lagarrie did? Hell, even if it was Lagarrie's idea and got KP to go along with it, what does that say about KP's judgement?

The sad truth is that I think this was as much KP's doing as it was his agent, if not Lagarrie would be short one client and KP would have put a ton of distance between himself and his agent -- at least something stronger than "I want to be here...Warren (LeGarie) has his own opinions." I call bullshit; if agents have their own opinions and say things contrary to their clients' wishes or interests they don't stay in business very long.

So, why would KP say that stuff through his agent?

Obviously it wouldn't make ownership happy. But, what if KP essentially sees the writing on the wall from the non-basketball side that he is "Dead Man Walking"...or maybe he's frustrated at the diminishing amount of control he's being allowed to exercise - especially when he isn't able to save TP's job. He wants to stay because of how much of his hand is on this team - but he also wants the control. So, he throws the "Hail Mary" (of having the agent go public) hoping to drum up support from the public to pressure the ownership/non-basketball side to give him what he wants.

There are some troubling/missing pieces in this thinking, but I can't figure out what else it could be. If the agent was talking out of line KP'd be backing WAY off the agent. Also, any agent causing so much trouble for one client (even if done in the defense of another client) would have other clients all over the league questioning his methods. The fact KP has said nothing sure looks like had some hand in what was said...

 

[Nikolokolus]

So, why would KP say that stuff through his agent?

Obviously it wouldn't make ownership happy. But, what if KP essentially sees the writing on the wall from the non-basketball side that he is "Dead Man Walking"...or maybe he's frustrated at the diminishing amount of control he's being allowed to exercise - especially when he isn't able to save TP's job. He wants to stay because of how much of his hand is on this team - but he also wants the control. So, he throws the "Hail Mary" (of having the agent go public) hoping to drum up support from the public to pressure the ownership/non-basketball side to give him what he wants.

There are some troubling/missing pieces in this thinking, but I can't figure out what else it could be. If the agent was talking out of line KP'd be backing WAY off the agent. Also, any agent causing so much trouble for one client (even if done in the defense of another client) would have other clients all over the league questioning his methods. The fact KP has said nothing sure looks like had some hand in what was said...

That's as good of a guess as I've heard, but honestly none of us really know the 'why' we just know the 'how'

 

[Blazer_Hippie]

That's as good of a guess as I've heard, but honestly none of us really know the 'why' we just know the 'how'

Yeah, purely a guess. Now I'm waiting for 2 Blazer tell-all books to come out...

#1 The Jail Blazers book that spills the insane dirt that is rumored to be out there about how awful it really was being around them.

#2 The much nerdier but equally interesting to me book about the inter-office turmoil happening right now.