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He’s really good, hopefully it translates well. He’s going to talk them into tanking for Victor, I’m only mostly kidding.

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From DX.com to this. OUTSTANDING!

Damn there goes my favorite draft source.

Watch the Blazers go full tank for Victor

Happy for him but sad day for basketball fans as hes the best analyst on TV

Props to the Blazers! The organization appear to making moves that could actually help the team out. This is akin to getting out of one's own way.

Wow good for him. I’m gonna miss his draft analysis and breakdown. I always enjoy his perspective.

Good for him, he's very knowledgeable, was cool seeing him talk at the combine this year.

That’s pretty cool and you can tell he’s passionate about his work. Good hire

This is awesome. Good for Mike. Guy really worked his way to the top.

Always enjoyed his analysis.

Lol who? This is why Lebron left Cleveland because star players careers are placed in the hands of nobodies and people judge these star players careers on winning championships. Front offices are comprised of people who don't reflect NBA sidelines.

SelfishPlayer wrote:Lol who? This is why Lebron left Cleveland because star players careers are placed in the hands of nobodies and people judge these star players careers on winning championships. Front offices are comprised of people who don't reflect NBA sidelines.

wow, mike schmitz was spot on

WTF

Lol he's a grade A fraud. Blazers are just an unserious franchise

There is a trend of front offices in sports hiring media members.

People barely knew this guy's name before ESPN absorbed draftexpress. You could really see Schmitz absolute go to work at ESPN. He raised his profile every year he was there to the point of getting a job offer like this. That is super impressive.

SelfishPlayer wrote:There is a trend of front offices in sports hiring media members.

Grizzlies sorta started it when they hired ESPN John Hollinger. Granted, it was a terrible hire because Hollinger wasn’t even good as a writer, but there ya go.

At least this guy has a proven track record. To go from Draft Express to now this. Awesome stuff.

themoneyteam2 wrote:Lol he's a grade A fraud. Blazers are just an unserious franchise

Please explain this. I'm actually not a huge fan of his, but I'm sensing this is about him having a lot of misses in the past.

If that's the case then strike up the band and play the old classic: scouts can't tell the future, GMs take guesses based on the only info we have on people, which is inadequate for the task and which is the same thing everyone who's done their homework knows. That's drafting, basketball fans need to stop pretending there's more to it or something else 'smart scouts' or 'great GMs' know beyond that.

Was he ever part of RealGM? I remember Givony posted here under CheeseDoodle.

Something happened where he wrote about disparaging a prospect and the agent freaked out, went after the Board. He stopped posting.

Does anyone remember the story? Who was the prospect?