need4detroit wrote:Who again is responsible for the 1st round pick thats about to be sent to Charlotte?
Oh yeah. Tom Gores.
This is likely true.
I could certainly evision Dumars having sat down with Gores (on Skype or whatever) and his Platinum Equity underlings, and laying out the options for Gordon:
- Keep him and pay him
- Amnesty him, pay him, but free up the cap space
- Charlotte has offerred Magette for him, but we'd have to give them a first rounder as well. That means we don't pay him, and we free up the cap space.
Which one?
Did Dumars hold the power there?
Was it a democratic vote - did Dumars not want to make that trade yet get out voted?
Did Gores hold all the power?
I'm not going to apologize for Dumars. He's obviously at fault...but I continue to wonder: How much really is his fault? How does it really work behind the Tom Gores curtain? Is that why Dumars is still here? Is this team where it is more because of Gores and his Platinum Equity underlings?
Will we ever know?
