IMO, the league's worst front office in recent years is the Knicks', hands down. The article I linked to only talks about Walsh, who is certainly not the league's worst GM. But the overall situation in New York...yikes. That's a franchise that has no excuse to ever put a bad team on the court. They have tradition, a passionate fan base, loads of money...and they play in New York for godssake. They should roll out a great team built around two or three elite free-agent pickups year after year after year. Instead, they've been rolling out a steaming pile of dung that at one point cost more than $100 million in salaries. And they aren't out of the woods yet. If they weren't so effed up, they'd have attracted much more than just Amare Stoudemire this summer.
I've always thought that if you're going to assign blame for the Pacers' recent woes, most of it should go to former players rather than the front office. I'd argue that the jury is still out on Bird. He was dealt a crappy hand. Next summer when the bad contracts are up and the shackles come off, that's when we'll find out if he's a good GM or not.
