Official GM Hunt Thread......

[The_Lillard_King]

Y! Sources: The Toronto Raptors are finalizing an agreement with Ed Stefanski to make him VP of Basketball Ops.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Paul Allen, what a space cadet. Why doesn't he hire a GM right now? Think of all the stuff the GM could be doing. Calling other GMs and talking about the weather, since he can't talk about players. Smiling at Quick without saying any player names. Looking like an important stuffed shirt while Allen pays him for doing nothing. Allen lucked into his money. Most billionaires had no luck. They earned it through hard, hard work, just like a ditchdigger.

And when the lock-out ends, I'm sure the rest of the league will be willing to postpone the start of the season another month or so, just so the Blazers can get their shite together.

Of course, your argument makes perfect sense - if Allen has inside info that negotiations are a sham and the owners have already decided to cancel the season.

 

[maxiep]

They should change the title from "General Manager" to lap dog.

 

[BBert]

They should change the title from "General Manager" to lap dog.

Or Head Nurse and Bottle Washer.

 

[Masbee]

David Aldridge has something to say about the GM search today. What do you think of Donnie Nelson?

Blazers gazing toward Big D to fill vacancy?
Meanwhile, the collapse of talks is holding up teams that still have front-office and assistant coach vacancies.
The Blazers continue to keep their GM search under tight wraps, having told all of the candidates they'd already interviewed over the summer that they were going in another direction and would be looking for executives who'd been in the GM chair for a long time. And the names that many outside of Portland (no one in the 503 is talking, of course) have attached to the job are Utah's Kevin O'Connor and Sacramento's Geoff Petrie. And O'Connor's and Petrie's track records would make them top candidates anywhere.
Last week, though, front-office types began to believe the Blazers might also be doing due diligence on Mavericks GM Donnie Nelson, who helped turn the Mavs from an offense-dominant team that his father, Don, coached to initial success, into a championship team that emphasized defense under coach Rick Carlisle.
Portland president Larry Miller declined comment this weekend, but there's no concrete evidence that the Blazers have asked for permission to speak with Nelson.
The Blazers cleaned out their front office during and after the 2009-10 season, first firing assistant general manager Tom Penn for mysterious and still-unexplained reasons in March, then firing respected GM Kevin Pritchard the day after the 2010 Draft, having let him twist in the wind for weeks before making the move. Pritchard's replacement, former Thunder assistant GM Rich Cho, lasted just a year, after owner Paul Allen met with him in Europe to make sure he was the right fit and after the Blazers lauded the soft-spoken Cho's people skills.
Under Mark Cuban, Nelson has had the freedom to burn up the phone lines in search of a deal, something that Allen has loved to do over the years, buying up Draft picks from anyone who would sell them and never being leery of making big deals. But Allen has grown into more of a financial hawk over the years, and impacted the current collective bargaining talks with an odd appearance Oct. 21 in which he came to a key meeting between owners and the union, yet said next to nothing even when spoken to by union head Billy Hunter.

http://www.nba.com/2011/news/featur...lockout-next-steps/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1

 

[Mediocre Man]

LOL at Nelson leaving Dallas for our cluster fuck of a front office


We might be gazing towards Dallas, but we are probably getting the middle finger back at us

 

[Nikolokolus]

LOL at Nelson leaving Dallas for our cluster fuck of a front office

We might be gazing towards Dallas, but we are probably getting the middle finger back at us

Why do I immediately get an image of a Larry Miller, Bert Kolde and Paul Allen as a group of nerds sitting in a circle talking about girls they would or wouldn't do?

 

[Draco]

Well we were able to navigate free agency and sign Wesley without a GM last year so I guess we don't really have to have one. We could just give Chad Buchanan the title....

Or maybe just give it to Larry Miller for the time being and then a year or two from now maybe they will finally be able to find a candidate willing to take the job. If we gave Chad the title now it would make it hard to bring in a permenate GM without firing/demoting Chad.