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I came across this interesting story on developing front offices. It makes a few interesting points. It does make some points about racial bias, but it also talks about how teams tend to overlook the lunch bucket players and suggest the stars without considering their abilities to transition to the front office.

I know Drexler's name was kicked around as a possible executive for the Blazers, but why not Buck Williams?




http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/sport ... raton.html

It should surprise no one familiar with the professional basketball career of Charles Linwood Williams, more commonly known as Buck, that he is the vice president of a construction and building supplies company in the Washington area.
Buck Williams, whose number was retired by the Nets in 1999, is the vice president of a building supplies company.

Not because he wasn