Filed under: Warriors, The Works
In The Works today: charting the cha-ching! NBA owners have heard over the past 20 years and how Zach Randolph's alleged desire to be a Piston is weird.But first we take a look at the machinations, or lack thereof, of the Nuggets front office.
Downsizing in Denver
The latest shake-up in the Denver front office is news, largely because the Denver front office has to make a decision on Carmelo Anthony at some point before season's end. Unless the Nuggets magically improve tenfold and entice Anthony into staying, these executives will either preside over the deal that reboots the franchise (way to pass on Derrick Favors, guys) or catch the tomatoes with their faces if 'Melo leaves as a free agent -- leaving the team empty-handed.But as much as the Nuggets' executive soap opera makes for good news -- largely because it relates to 'Melo's future -- it's a smokescreen. The Nuggets have no choice but to trade Anthony; they passed on the best deal they're going to get, and it was good even before Favors surpassed all expectations. Whoever is left in the unenviable position of, well, doing anything in Denver's basketball operations department, is being set up for failure. The franchise is changing hands -- even the outgoing owner Stan Kroenke is lucky like a rat jumping off a sinking ship.
Fine, upstanding professionals should want to get out of the Nuggets. Unless there's some young, Sam Presti-like whiz kid lurking in the organization with a master plan for rejuvenation, in the short-term, this is a dead-end job. Actually, it's worse: it's a suicide mission.
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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/11/10/the-works-dreary-doings-in-denver-z-bos-strange-desire/
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