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Jazz hire Celtics Assistant GM Austin Ainge as new President of Basketball Operations

Add nepotism to the list of things that are only prohibited and sanctioned for us lowly plebs, along with the likes of conflict of interest, bribery, grifting, general corruption, lying, infidelity, etc.
 
Funny enough, the year to All-out tank - even if you got less than ideal value back -would’ve been 22/23 after blowing up the team, and then pivot to trying to win with whatever you ended up with in 23/24. Even without trying, they were basically a play-in team leading up to the deadline. Pay out the pick in a crap draft and then pivot again to doing whatever you can to compete. The lure of winning the Cooper Flagg lottery was just too much to pass up.
 
Schrödinger's Gerbil said:
Plenty of coaches have been fired with plenty of years left on their contracts. It would hardly be a precedent.
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Will Hardy is AA guy even if he didnt hire him. They used to share office walls in Boston and Austin spoke very highly of him.

The way Ryan and DA also talk about him indicates that he is the savior more than any player currently on the roster.

I would bet his leash is very long.
 
HermanG said:
Will Hardy is AA guy even if he didnt hire him. They used to share office walls in Boston and Austin spoke very highly of him.

The way Ryan and DA also talk about him indicates that he is the savior more than any player currently on the roster.

I would bet his leash is very long.
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Could very well be. But, when a sacrifice is required, shiite flows downhill. At some point, he's going to be accountable; no honeymoon lasts forever.
 
Coach Ellis said:
Funny enough, the year to All-out tank - even if you got less than ideal value back -would’ve been 22/23 after blowing up the team, and then pivot to trying to win with whatever you ended up with in 23/24. Even without trying, they were basically a play-in team leading up to the deadline. Pay out the pick in a crap draft and then pivot again to doing whatever you can to compete. The lure of winning the Cooper Flagg lottery was just too much to pass up.
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Notwithstanding the incredibly low odds of winning the lottery. IF indeed that single low probability event was what drove "strategy" over the past year, that's clear-cut FO malfeasance.
 
No one wins when you are stuck in the middle,
Coach Ellis said:
Funny enough, the year to All-out tank - even if you got less than ideal value back -would’ve been 22/23 after blowing up the team, and then pivot to trying to win with whatever you ended up with in 23/24. Even without trying, they were basically a play-in team leading up to the deadline. Pay out the pick in a crap draft and then pivot again to doing whatever you can to compete. The lure of winning the Cooper Flagg lottery was just too much to pass up.
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Bill Simmons, who knows Danny pretty well once said that Danny's goal is to win every trade. That seems very evident in what we have seen in Utah and at least in part explains why we have been stuck in the middle
 
Schrödinger's Gerbil said:
Could very well be. But, when a sacrifice is required, shiite flows downhill. At some point, he's going to be accountable; no honeymoon lasts forever.
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For sure. But I think they will flip the entire roster again before they even consider cutting ties with Hardy.
 
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