Danny Ainge hired as CEO of basketball operations

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I'm ok with this along as Zanick is still the GM. I think other GMs are leery of dealing with Ainge and he has burned a lot of bridges with his dealings. If he can give us more brainpower as the CEO, I'm cool with that, just don't let him be the one who calls other GMs.

CEO just means "more power than the GM". It's some ******** business term we've decided to use in basketball just to put some above the GM.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

It's kind of funny that the one off-season JZ had, he actually did quite well.

He did a really good trade for Butler and signed Rudy Gay. Nothing to really complain about other than the Favors trade, but he was forced to do that.

 

[SojoDave]

I think we need to get a list of Ryan Smith's friends and see who else he is going to hire...

 

[NUMBERICA]

This is ***

What does JZ have to do to get a fair shake? I… really don’t like this.

 

[The Fresh Prince]

Not everyday do you bring in a guy who was able to bring in 2 HOFers to a championship team for pennies on the dollar and the fanbase hates it.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

It's kind of funny that the one off-season JZ had, he actually did quite well.

He did a really good trade for Butler and signed Rudy Gay. Nothing to really complain about other than the Favors trade, but he was forced to do that.

I think he lacks the polish or charisma of some more well known GMs but he gets **** done. Literally checked every ****ing box this offseason that you could have reasonably asked. Every move was positive. The cash thing was an ownership mandate.

So now we bring in the more polished experienced guy to take JZ's shine. This is the **** I couldn't handle in the big consulting firms I worked in. JZ wasn't a big enough name. Hopefully he sticks around because I think he's pretty damn good.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I dont really like that it's a whole "he's good friends with the owner thing". If Ainge does a **** job, is Ryan going to have the balls to fire him?

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Someone should ask him, “how much more would you have to work with right now had the Jazz been able to cash in on a max TPE?”

I'm sure our "tough" media guys will ask the hard questions. I'll bet the can't wait to go hard at him... there is no way they will just slap his back and talk about how great he is... no way.

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

I am not enthused about it. I hope that changes, which it would if we get a chip.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I dont really like that it's a whole "he's good friends with the owner thing". If Ainge does a **** job, is Ryan going to have the balls to fire him?

Exactly... I have some family that have a business and I basically told them we shouldn't hire friends or family unless they are like twice as good as what we can get from non-friends. Every time they ignore me on this it blows up spectacularly.

 

[LogGrad98]

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I guess a positive is that Ainge can non-emotionally trade a guy like Clarkson, and since he isnt handling day-to-day operations, he won't have to deal with the players and JZ can play good cop on the ground floor.

PLayers: Yo what the **** JZ we loved Clarkson

JZ: Dont look at me, it was that bastard Ainge, he took my damn job too.

Unity in hating Ainge = championship.