Finally! A basket entry As you can see who enter from time to time in my blog, most links are blogs that I have basketball (in fact, almost all of you have one) and this is why mine is not, because I think that cracks like Peter, Juanejo, Wilt, Wolf, Wayne Sixers or little I can contribute myself.
However, from time to time one gets to ruminate on issues that others do not try and it is one of those issues that bothers me right now.
For years, we've seen in sports in general and in the NBA in particular, people are always the same. See a player who is a promise to 18 years, a reality at 25 and retires 10 years later after an extensive career of more or less success.
has won a paste in the NBA Now what? it probably becomes a TV commentator (it sells), assistant coach (everyone assumes that who has played and has been trained in the elite then you can train the elite) or, at worst, it becomes part the management of a franchise. And
peorcísimo cases is where it becomes General Manager.
We have seen for years as the NBA stars, great players no doubt, come to occupy a position quite different, something for which they may not be prepared. Danny Ainge in Boston has gotten a team that went into the conference finals with Pierce and Walker, happened to be one of the worst in recent 4 years. But we will give a vote of confidence by the movements that have made this summer and have turned to Boston in aspiring to the ring.
Larry Bird as a player was possibly one of the five best ever. As a coach led the Pacers to the NBA Finals, where they stood up to the best lakers in recent years. Why did GM got the job then? From the hand of a coach we like them all as bad as Van Gundy, the Pacers have gone in a few years of candidates to the ring worst team in the NBA.
Speaking of Van Gundy, his best years were with the Knicks. But now the Knicks are headed by one Isiah Thomas. Yes, it was a great player and decisive in two rings of the bad boys. But still a bad boy in the worst sense of the word now. Wears, long the most expensive franchise in the NBA, with players with more ego than the desire to win something, and when it seems that everything is calm, then makes a move impossible with which to load the template or come to a light affair that makes this person and, by extension, the entire franchise, the laughingstock of the league.
The list is endless, and I only come to mind exception to the rule: Joe Dumars, who already has 3 rings to the pistons, 2 as a player and 1 as General Manager. Has built a team where Billups, Prince, Hamilton and Rasheed share hierarchy, work, talent, hungry for the championship. It was Big Ben, and seems to play rebuild, but what he has done is remarkable.
And I wondered how many of these completed the university? How many approved to be the stars in their basketball team? What studied, accounting, finance? I do not think, nor do I think someone whose talent is playing basketball should be an entrepreneur and give administrative control of a franchise for having gotten many baskets in the past.
But my opinion does not count, this trend continues, and now there are two franchises that take the challenge of management of a former NBA star.
Jordan after a failed attempt to do something good with wizards, now begins a new path in front of the bobcats. His first move was brave, and has given his team a jump in quality. It ended up being an expansion franchise, with the signing of J-rich, with a dedicated and Gerald Wallace and a good inside as Okafor, the Bobcats will struggle to get for the first time ever in the playoffs. You probably do not succeed, but a first step, and so far, the attempt to Jordan to improve what this is, at least, commendable. I'm rather more pessimistic
with the other management stars. Steve Kerr is difficult to forget ballot Colangelo, the man who became one of the teams at that time, most boring league in the team we all want to see win a ring. He went to Toronto (which in its first year has managed to make the best season of his history with the championship division) and replaced him with D'Antoni, who lowered his performance as a manager and as a coach. Who all trades. Now comes Steve Kerr D'Antoni to return alone to practice and time their movements have been ... well, have not been. It seems that the first thing you did was take a vacation (during which we have risen to Kurt Thomas and James Jones) and the only thing that has made remarkable has been to sign Grant Hill, who hopefully has more players than Jalen Rose Phoenix game.
The question is who will be next? Can you imagine Rodman as GM of a team? "The Admiral Robinson? What Spreewell? (It should be looking for work, you need to feed their children.)
nice Barkley did, playing as a commentator and not the manager!
