Any Significance to Taylor Veto?

[Tirion]

How old is Taylor anyway?

Any chance he dies before Love-Rubio era is over?

[Scottypax]

Taylor should let Kahn be the General Manager. That's his job! I'm frustrated that the owner would veto the trade.

[mandurugo]

I don't know if I even believe the report to begin with.

This.

Yep, pretty thinly sourced in a media hungry market.

[C.lupus]

But does anyone look at the fact that Taylor was unwilling to add salary (Fisher) in an attempt to add a key piece (Crawford) for a playoff run?

I'm not sure Crawford is really a key piece. If it was someone like Gordon, it would probably be worth adding an extra contract but Crawford? I don't think so.

[Klomp]

But does anyone look at the fact that Taylor was unwilling to add salary (Fisher) in an attempt to add a key piece (Crawford) for a playoff run?

I'm not sure Crawford is really a key piece. If it was someone like Gordon, it would probably be worth adding an extra contract but Crawford? I don't think so.

He would've been a key piece for this year's playoff run...

[C.lupus]

We would have been but he's still not worth $8.4 million.

[eyeteeth]

I have conflicting feelings about sending Beas to the Lakers. I want to see him do well, don't want to see the Lakers do well, want him to have a good home, not certain the Wolves can be that for him... It's kind of a mess.

But this "report" (by which I mean "hearsay," or even better, "unsubstantiated nonsense") doesn't mean bupkus. If it were true, it would be worth thinking about. But without some kind of reporting from a non-LA media outlet, I'm just going to ignore it.

[Dr. Laker]

I have conflicting feelings about sending Beas to the Lakers. I want to see him do well, don't want to see the Lakers do well, want him to have a good home, not certain the Wolves can be that for him... It's kind of a mess.

But this "report" (by which I mean "hearsay," or even better, "unsubstantiated nonsense") doesn't mean bupkus. If it were true, it would be worth thinking about. But without some kind of reporting from a non-LA media outlet, I'm just going to ignore it.

Yeah - the Los Angeles Times is completely lacking in credibility.

[Saltine]

When it comes to Wolves basketball they are.

How did that Pau Gasol trade work out?

[shangrila]

Maybe they figured they could try and sign Crawford in the offseason without having to take on more salary?

[Dewey]

How old is Taylor anyway?

Any chance he dies before Love-Rubio era is over?

You win "The most classless post ever" award ... Can't believe this was not removed.

[Saltine]

How old is Taylor anyway?

Any chance he dies before Love-Rubio era is over?

Glen will be 71 next month, he's a pretty nice guy. My girlfriend used to work for him in Mankato, she has nothing but good things to say. He isn't cheap, and he does care. She was very surprised to see that he knew not only the names of all his employees, he knew what was going on in their lives, their families names, everyone where she worked... He's an all right dude, who employs over 9000 people.

http://www.taylorcorp.com/company/Pages/about-us.aspx

We are lucky to have him, he is a far better dude then most of the owners in sports, and far wealthier.

[Araxen]

Glenn has spent over the cap before for this team before so he isn't a cheap owner, but now isn't the time to be overspending. Especially bailing the Lakers out of their bad contracts. This year isn't playoffs or bust. Playoffs are a bonus for this team this year and not a necessity. This team is still in it's early stages of competing. With Rubio out the playoffs aren't that big of deal too, but they will be next season. Kahn has a huge burden of adding a SG in the off-season now and I hope we don't have to settle for Crawford and Kahn is able to get someone better.

[Tirion]

Glenn has spent over the cap before for this team before so he isn't a cheap owner, but now isn't the time to be overspending.

People need to stop with “Taylor is willing to pay when necessary” crap. The only real MAX contract he gave was to KG and that was almost 20 years ago. The last 10 years he was cutting costs at every opportunity.

[EddyCool]

Glenn has spent over the cap before for this team before so he isn't a cheap owner, but now isn't the time to be overspending.

People need to stop with “Taylor is willing to pay when necessary” crap. The only real MAX contract he gave was to KG and that was almost 20 years ago. The last 10 years he was cutting costs at every opportunity.

That's completely wrong.

His problem has been hiring and sticking to GMs that haven't been spending money wisely. He allowed McHale to spend too much money once the CBA changed after KG's and Shaq's contracts. We were bad because we spent too much and couldn't add talent without cap-flexibility and draft picks.

In the time after KG's contract and before Kahn, McHale overspent and continued to pour money into mediocre or oft-injured player such as: Wally Szczerbiak (near-max deal), Troy Hudson, Trenton Hassell, Mike James, Ricky Davis/Mark Blount (traded Szcz for Blount's longer deal), Terrell Brandon, Marko Jaric, and Marcus Banks off the top of my head. Who the team was cheap about? Cassell, Sprewell, Rasho... is that it? You can have the Rambis draft-pick selling conspiracy, too. They overpaid Rambis when they hired him, anyway.

As a candidate for the GM job after McHale was fired, Kahn's reputation out of Indiana was Donnie Walsh's salary cap guy, so coming in and clearing out all of the garbage and starting clean, which is what happened in the first year and a half. They paid at or over market value for Darko, Pek, and JJ. There hasn't been a single max contract possibility in years outside of Al and Kevin, and both were signed. We've never been more attractive to any FAs than somewhere that we couldn't out-bid.

Whatever.

[Tirion]

So if Kahn was the janitor, why he's still around? Cause cleaning not over yet. And it will not be over, cause Taylor is not about winning anymore.

[thinktank]

So if Kahn was the janitor, why he's still around? Cause cleaning not over yet. And it will not be over, cause Taylor is not about winning anymore.

Under the new CBA, all GMs have to be janitors. You're stuck in the old CBA.

[psundeen]

I sort of feel proven right on this topic. If he wouldnt stay in Houston theres no way he would have been ok with playing in Minnesota... Sad but true, pro athletes think we're Siberia!

[Worm Guts]

It wasn't worth the risk.