The Amazingly Suck Theodore Leonsis Thread

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Good. Perhaps that sweet GEICO money can defray the costs of eating the rest of EG and Brooks' contracts.

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I can't believe this jackass announces a financial transaction on which he makes money, & which has no other meaning of any kind, as "great news for... players and fans."

Show me the double in that bottom line.

Does he have no shame?

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I can't believe this jackass announces a financial transaction on which he makes money, & which has no other meaning of any kind, as "great news for... players and fans."

Show me the double in that bottom line.

Does he have no shame?

I disagree. I want the Wizards to maximize their revenue streams as much as possible, so long as it doesn't result in any sacrifices to the on-court product. I also want them to invest new revenues into the on-court product, e.g., hire a new GM, buy 2nd round picks, and wallow in lux tax land when the new GM deems it strategically appropriate. Doing the former helps fund the latter.

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I can't believe this jackass announces a financial transaction on which he makes money, & which has no other meaning of any kind, as "great news for... players and fans."

Show me the double in that bottom line.

Does he have no shame?

Seriously, how exactly is it great news for the players, and the fans in particular?

We all know what most fans would consider great news, I won't hold my breath in Leonsis doing what's necessary.

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I disagree. I want the Wizards to maximize their revenue streams as much as possible, so long as it doesn't result in any sacrifices to the on-court product. I also want them to invest new revenues into the on-court product, e.g., hire a new GM, buy 2nd round picks, and wallow in lux tax land when the new GM deems it strategically appropriate. Doing the former helps fund the latter.

You think lack of revenue is the problem with this franchise?

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I disagree. I want the Wizards to maximize their revenue streams as much as possible, so long as it doesn't result in any sacrifices to the on-court product. I also want them to invest new revenues into the on-court product, e.g., hire a new GM, buy 2nd round picks, and wallow in lux tax land when the new GM deems it strategically appropriate. Doing the former helps fund the latter.

You think lack of revenue is the problem with this franchise?

Of course not. But in the event Ted ever decides to build / recruit a proper FO, I want them to have every resource at their disposal. If the jersey sponsorship means we sell one less 2nd round pick, it's a win.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/11/05/adam-silver-worries-when-teams-spend-themselves-into-unprofitably/

“[Players] want to enter a competitive system, too,” Silver said. “These are 450 of the best players in the world. They want to be on teams that can compete for championships. They don’t want to be on a team that because they’re in a smaller market or in a situation where they can’t generate as much revenue, that their team can’t afford to spend the same kind of payroll. So, it’s a long-winded way of saying that we continue to look at how to create optimal competition and I’m sure there are additional ways we can improve the system over time.”

I think it won't be too long before something's going to give here.

Either the luxury tax in its current form is going to go bye bye, or owners will be pushing for a hard cap with the next CBA.

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Per the Tap, a blow-up is on the table and chicken-sh** Ted will want to have Ernie hold his hand throughout the process. There is NO way in hell Ernie should get another 5 years at tearing-down and building up a team for this Org.

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I'm gonna throw up and then spam Ted's email full of, well, some horrifying content if he really lets Ernie handle Wall/Beal-trade and keep working on his "process". Please God help us.

[truwizfan4evr]

I'm gonna throw up and then spam Ted's email full of, well, some horrifying content if he really lets Ernie handle Wall/Beal-trade and keep working on his "process". Please God help us.

i hate ernie so much. the nba worst gm" still has a job.

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This turd just flat out despises Washington Wizards fans.

There's no other way you can explain Grunfeld getting yet another chance to drive this franchise off the cliff.

**** me, I'm at a total loss for words that the guy that has created this toxic mess is sitting on the phone fielding calls from other teams.

What a sad joke of a franchise, I feel sick to my stomach about every single minute and every single dime I've ever wasted rooting for this **** pile.

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The one explanation for Ted not firing Ernie that is sort of comprehensible is that the decisions to supermax Wall and sign Brooks to his ridiculous contract were mostly Ted's decisions or are understood that way. Some day it would be interesting to get the low down.

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I never get tired of posting this.

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“I thought both front offices had ‘A’ grades for their offseason. I think that when a season ends, you sit down and say, ‘This is what we want to accomplish,’ and for the Wizards, it was we need to have more balance and more depth and be prepared for injuries,” Leonsis said. “We had injuries last year and we want to be able to have interchangeable parts and players that are adapted to the new NBA.

“From center position to wing to the backcourt,” Leonsis continued. “So we were able to bring in a lot of bench scoring, and I think we can go 10 to 11 players deep.”

Let's not forget.

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The one explanation for Ted not firing Ernie that is sort of comprehensible is that the decisions to supermax Wall and sign Brooks to his ridiculous contract were mostly Ted's decisions or are understood that way. Some day it would be interesting to get the low down.

A competent front office might seem just a little too "in charge" for Terd's liking. Why pay millions just to let someone else play with your toy?

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What's the word for being racist against Greeks? I have become that.

[Donkey McDonkerton]

What's the word for being racist against Greeks? I have become that.

So, you wouldn't trade Wall for Giannis??

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Can we get millie in here for a laugh?

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What I miss is hands explaining how he predicted all this to the letter

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Let's see what the great Thomas Boswell has to say, he manages to put things in perspective more often than not.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/11/20/dont-let-washington-wizards-spoil-your-day/

This is a response to the question of whether the Wizards should have known they weren't getting a meeting with Durant and whether it should have affected their decision making with respect to the Brooks coaching hire.

Very good points. I felt the same thing at the time: What are they thinking? They aren’t going to get within a thousand miles of K.D., and everybody — except them — knows it.

Does anybody listen to anybody within that franchise. When players, especially your best players — like John Wall and Bradley Beal — constantly seem to be saying that the problem after a bad loss was “lack of effort,” that often means they don’t want to say the truth, which is that there’s a lack of talent — including less talent in their own games than they want to admit, even to themselves. The only thing Beal can do at an above-NBA-average level is shoot. That’s a great thing to be good at. But there’s not a lot more to his game. Wall can do a lot of things — if he would focus on those things, including defense — but he can’t shoot, from any distance, including layups in traffic. And he doesn’t know it.

I wrote a column about Bad Owners last week. I should have mentioned Abe Pollin and Ted Leonsis in their combined incompetence in running the Bullets/Wiz for what is now 40 seasons of despair. The Wiz need to go on a winning streak to reverse this trend.

How long a winning streak? Just to make them a .500 team over the last 40 seasons? They’d need to win 454 games in a row.

This is one of the historically awful teams in U.S. pro sports. And the spiral, after some hopes in recent years, seems to be going back down the drain.

Whenever the Wiz start talking about “How do we get better?” I always want to say, “LOOK IN THE MIRROR. You first order of business is to make sure that you DON’T GET EVEN WORSE.”

With some franchises, I’d be quick to advise 'em to “break this mess up.” With the Wiz, I wouldn’t. Because it’s more likely they’d find a way to get back down to 25-to-30 wins for several seasons, but still never land the lottery pick Hall of Famer who changes the whole picture.

My advice: Stop trying. Just play. Get a little better. Stop pretending your weaknesses are strengths. Listen to the coach. Oh, and fire the GM, just to get people's attention.