The Amazingly Sucky Theodore Leonsis Thread

[hands11]

Pelicans is a better team name than Wizards.

Pelicans is the dumbest name I have ever heard. Specially if they are considering changing from the Thunder to that. The Thunder is a awesome name.

The Pelicans

That is ridiculously stupid.

Wizards is actually not that bad a name. It has grown on me. I like it better then the Bullets. I wouldn't change it if I was Ted. Washington Wizards works pretty good. Specially if they start winning. So much play you can get off of that name. Bullets is kind of lamn if you ask me.

Beside of they go from Thunder to Pelicans then they won't be OKC anymore. OKP doesn't work.

But if they do it, we should definitely go with Washington Beavers. The marketing opportunities are endless.













or something a little more edgy.

[AFM]

Hands I hate to break it to you but Pelicans in New Orlean's new name, not OKC.

[LyricalRico]

Hands I hate to break it to you but Pelicans in New Orlean's new name, not OKC.

[Halcyon]

No idea where hands' mind went there lol.

[hands11]

Hands I hate to break it to you but Pelicans in New Orlean's new name, not OKC.

Oh, right. lol

So they are going to be NOP ? Yeah, that works.

Still, what about the Beavers.

[hands11]

No idea where hands' mind went there lol.

I was all focused on the Beavers and got A HEAD of myself.

[mohammed10]

Bumping this thread to ask if anyone views Ted's Take (http://www.tedstake.com)

Has anyone hard any success in posting any comments that simply don't sing his or Wizards praises? His so-called mods (I suspect Ernie Grunfeld) delete just about every negative comment that is posted over there. I wanted to get this boards' thoughts. Perhaps it is time to start a Ted's Take thread on RealGM...

[Upper Decker]

So I guess hockey's back now. I don't even have passing interest in hockey but honestly I'm so infuriated with how Ted handles his hoops I wish nothing but pain and misery on the Caps this season.

I think his bravado comes from the fact that the Caps have been good, if not total choke artists, however. His Caps plan will work for the Wiz, he'll prove us he knew what he was doing all along.!! Worst owner in sports.

[gambitx777]

heres the problem, he has been dealing with another lockout. Plus he has been loosing a lot of money over it. Now that its over he can give more attention and time to the wiz, and look for E.G. to possibly get fired soon.

[MikeTheKid]

In the Eastern Conference, playing at a 500 level would qualify a team for a playoff spot. There is that much parity around the league. Click here to see standings.

In fact, right now- the team in the 8th spot is playing at less than a 500 level.

Last offseason, as we entered our third year of our rebuild, we harbored aspirations to play at a 500 level which would have shown great progress for our team in terms of wins and losses from the previous year. It also would have had us in the playoff hunt discussions.

We suffered a staggering amount of injuries to key players early on and we presently sit with the worst record in the NBA. We are now easing back into the lineup our key players and we are starting to play better as a team. In our last 10 games, we are playing 500 ball having won five games. This is the kind of performance we were anticipating for the season. Six teams in the East had a better record than us in the last 10 game segments.

A good goal for us for the rest of this season would be to play at a 500 levels or better. We have our players back, and we are gaining confidence. The players are motivated to play well, as they have high levels of character and they know this is an important stretch of games for the team to assess our strengths and weaknesses. Our long term goal is to build a team that can compete at much higher levels than 500 ball, but we must plan for steady and marked improvement - in measured increments.

I think there is much to still play for this season, as does everyone associated with our franchise. Thank you Wizards fans for supporting our team.

This made me LOL

[tontoz]

Our long term goal is to build a team that can compete at much higher levels than 500 ball, but we must plan for steady and marked improvement - in measured increments.

That is complete nonsense.

[montestewart]

Our long term goal is to build a team that can compete at much higher levels than 500 ball, but we must plan for steady and marked improvement - in measured increments.

That is complete nonsense.

No, it's not. Too much success too soon could go to their heads. If they win one additional game every year, eventually they'll have an unbeaten season, and a barrel full of humility to boot.

[nuposse04]

I hope rudy gay isn't a "measured increment"

[closg00]

Steinberg Tweet

WTOP callers asked Leonsis about noise and Gary WIlliams as Wiz coach, but not about Ernie Grunfeld or Jan Vesely. Good Job.

Ted:

We might have some talent deficiency in some places, but we don't have work ethic or accountability issues.

Check-out Steinbergs tweets reporting live from the Leonsis interview, lots more good stuff to post but I don't have time.

[Nivek]

Over at the blog, I wrote this response to the Leonsis Q&A on WTOP.