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Wonder if they want to go after Petrie.
Blazers fire Cho
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Strange time to fire your GM with the draft rapidly approaching. You'd think they would have done it the day after their season ended.
They certainly aren't getting Petrie this year. He's under contract and has a critical offseason ahead of him with absolutely no reason for the team to allow him to interview.
They certainly aren't getting Petrie this year. He's under contract and has a critical offseason ahead of him with absolutely no reason for the team to allow him to interview.
bajaden
Hall of Famer
If my memory serves, part of it had to do with Pritchard giving Roy a new contract against the wishes of the owner.
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They fired him and he asked to do the draft and they let him.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Can you really blame the owners in that case?
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Unless they're offering up Batum, i don't see what we would really want from them at this point in time.
rainmaker
Hall of Famer
Wallace maybe? McMillan brought up the logjam at the 3 with Batum and Wallace in the interview I posted.
KingsCitizen
Starter
I'll want Gerald Wallace back on the King's roster! We got robbed with the Charlotte expansion, of all the players the got from teams Crash was their best player.
He will be legit starting 3 on this team, and contract is manageable with only years left. So in case he will crash and burn, he can be an easy ender for a trade bait.
He will be legit starting 3 on this team, and contract is manageable with only years left. So in case he will crash and burn, he can be an easy ender for a trade bait.
The rest if I recall has to do with him constantly leveraging for a new contract, having his right hand man get a job offer from Minny so that he could leverage that offer for a raise and a failure to give any credit to coach McMillan or anyone else in town who may have had a hand in the Blazers recent run of success. Essentially he was an egomaniac and a world class prick which would have been forgivable if he fulfilled his fiduciary responsibilities to the team's ownership group. Since he couldn't/wouldn't hold that line he was sacked.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
His right hand man was Kahn? No wonder they fired him
No, his name was Tom Penn. He got the job offer and then used it to demand a raise from ownership and stayed but was fired about two or three months before Pritchard. That's when the writing was on the wall that Pritchard was next. Lord knows why they kept him all the way until draft day, I thought that was a strange move.
Watching the local news report on Cho right now, Larry Miller is saying that Cho and Paul Allen had no chemistry and some communication issues. Blazers will not replace him until after the draft. Another strange move.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Twas a joke. Sigh. I'm letting my posting muscles lax into prime offseason form.
rainmaker
Hall of Famer
I have to believe some of the reports that Allen isn't the most pleasant person to work for. The timing of the firing of the last two gm's, only a year a part, of horrible.
Kingster
Hall of Famer
It seems kind of odd that a GM could have power of attorney for the organization when it comes to these multi million dollar contracts. You'd think the owner would have to sign on the bottom line.
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Portland paper is calling for Petrie
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=130620979274155100
So if Petrie doesn't want to go to Anaheim does he take the safe bet going back to Portland now if the Arena plan falls through?
http://www.portlandtribune.com/sports/story.php?story_id=130620979274155100
So if Petrie doesn't want to go to Anaheim does he take the safe bet going back to Portland now if the Arena plan falls through?
As far as I'm concerned the arena plan ain't falling through, so it's a moot point.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Um, the very same article says he is singed through 2012-13 with the Kings (something I do not remember happening -- I thought he was on a one year to se what happened? Or was it extended?). In any case if that's true, then how exactly is he going to go be the Blazers GM? Employment is not at will in the nBA. You have binding contracts, and your former team cann hold you to them.
The Tribune isn't a complete piece of junk (they ran a nice interview with Adelman when he was in between jobs) but it is a weekly newspaper, and probably only the third most popular of its kind in town.
