Can an owner fire himself? PG, LA, Magic royally screwed up his plan to sell the franchise. Sent from my E6533 using Tapatalk
Hope by the time this lawsuit gets around PG is a Laker and we wear George Lakers jerseys to the hearings.
I don't typically read Bucher, but he's got a bunch of sourced quotes in here from other GMs and former GMs. Good insight.
wait, so everyone cheats? One prominent agent went even further. Asked if it would serve as any kind of deterrent, he laughed. "Are you kidding me? It might enhance it. If it only costs $500,000 to take a shot at getting Paul George, I'd think every team might try it." I knew I was in the wrong business.
it's good that someone in the media is willing to go all-in on this angle. i see a lot of bet-hedging in most of the other pieces. this one is unequivocal: -everyone tampers. -indy was/is salty. -nobody really wants these investigations. -the league can't enforce its own policies. -and those that cheat the most tend to win (i'm almost certain the un-named GM is referring to morey in terms of gms instructing players to recruit other players).
That's what a great business man / media man does. Now Jeannie will respond with "no, I've got this." Now they show everyone they are one big happy family, which they probably are. But attention is taken off Pelinka. Shows the team, fans, free agents they are all in this together. A+ Magic.
Exactly. I loved hearing this from Magic. Even though it was finding from a conversation Rob had with Mintz (PG's agent) Magic is the head man in charge as Lakers VP and he's taking responsibility which I love because Magic is the one who was given the first warming about the appearance on Kimmel's show.
Accountability is a lost art. Only the strong and responsible have the sack to take account to their mistakes.
A+ indeed. Brilliant basketball executive PR move of the year imo though he won't get credit for it. Maybe from a few smarter journalists but that's it. In the NBA's eyes (and by "NBA" I mean the players and agents) Magic just made this personal between he & Simon/Pritchard. You do not want to be a couple of white business men in a personal PR (let's call it Player Relations) war with a guy who in some player's eyes is the greatest player to play the game or at least top 5 to the rest and currently THE guy players want to play for because of the style of game he endorses, his legend and his passion + personality. All the money the Lakers have to spend and living in LA doesn't hurt either. This is what I meant earlier when I posted "are you sure you want to draw the wrath and ire of the Lakers?" Magic trivialized the fine by accepting it himself (everyone knows how rich Magic is), releaving everyone including Pelinka and Paul George who might have felt at least a little bad about it and Jeanie for that matter (she does explain things to a board). Would Mitch have done that? No, but he wouldn't have even spoke to PG either and PG wouldn't be coming to play here. I've got to think PG is now really going "whoa, Magic's THE man" He steered the blame away from Rob and said "uh-uh. I'm top dog here, it happened under my watch and my approval, hit Magic." That was a class act and a Laker legend just showed why he is a Laker legend. He's got this front office respect already but now... Lastly the message to Indy (and everyone else) is "Yes, we will do it again and make you look bad in the process ".
yeah, good move by magic. i'm not sure he was fully aware of the PR jujitsu, but even without that: let's fight for accountability when things are going wrong. that's character.
I believe the article above points out that most GMs would get caught if a team asked to investigate them. The thing is teams don't ask tampering to be investigated, because they don't want retaliation in the form of being investigated themselves. It's not that Rob did anything any other GM wouldn't or doesn't do, it's that the Indy owner was being a butthurt baby so he did this. Could come back to bite him and good ol' "KP" later on.
