The "Dude": The Mitch Kupchak Thread

[Diop]

Please not Brand

[LofJ]

Please not Brand

Brand was one of several candidates mentioned by Woj, most of them are current GMs too. If they're going that route it's a good sign imo. It means they're opening their checkbooks because those guys aren't going to walk away from their current jobs without substantial incentives.

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[Bassman]

Agree, Brand gives me rerun vibes…bad reruns.

[Robot Rock]

Alaskan Assassin would be great.

[yosemiteben]

From Stein Line:

All of this context currently surrounds North Carolina, where the Tar Heels are mired in a season of mediocrity while advancing through a GM search, sources told The Stein Line. In football, of course, North Carolina just made an almighty splash by hiring Bill Belichick as its head coach with GM Mike Lombardi in tow. Now NBA names, not surprisingly, have been connected to the basketball gig. UNC is a school known to value its alumni, spawning the expectation that the Tar Heels will ultimately hire a general manager who bleeds the school's powder blue blood. Mitch Kupchak, most recently the Charlotte Hornets' lead executive and once ACC Player of the Year as a Tar Heel, is known to be advising the process.

On3 reported in early February that one of Kupchak's top Hornets aides — Buzz Peterson — is a candidate for the Tar Heels' GM job. Peterson, of course, was Michael Jordan's college roommate. (Quick aside: Can you believe MJ turned 62 on Monday?)