Remember Lance Blanks

[gaspar]

Babby used to be Beasley agent. It was his guy he brought him in.

Nope.

I never heard about Felton to phx..

Just ask Amin Elhassan on twitter.

Lol babby use to represent Beasley In the early yrs..
He convinced sarver just google it can probably pull up 100 articles of him being a agent

Give me a source.

[phx#7]

Give me a source.

http://sportsagentblog.com/2009/10/06/m ... anagement/

Schwartz is still his agent today. The only other agent Beasley has had is his former AAU coach who he fired shortly after signing his rookie deal with the Heat and went to court against.

Lon Babby was never Beasley's agent.

[NaturalBuns]

Nope.


Just ask Amin Elhassan on twitter.

Lol babby use to represent Beasley In the early yrs..
He convinced sarver just google it can probably pull up 100 articles of him being a agent

Give me a source.

Your source is google.
Search "Lon babby"
Below his name tell me what it says.

[gaspar]

Lol babby use to represent Beasley In the early yrs..
He convinced sarver just google it can probably pull up 100 articles of him being a agent

Give me a source.

Your source is google.
Search "Lon babby"
Below his name tell me what it says.

It sure as hell doesn't say Babby was Beasley's agent at any point in his career.

[phx#7]

Your source is google.
Search "Lon babby"
Below his name tell me what it says.

Babby's NBA client list prior to taking the position with the Suns:

Tim Duncan
Hidayet Turkoglu
Shane Battier
Luke Walton
Grant Hill
Brandan Wright
Thaddeus Young
Ray Allen
Luke Ridnour
Tony Battie
Adonal Foyle

Beasley has had 2 agents in his career. Jeff Schwartz and Joel Bell.

[EB2]

People think Lance Blanks actually did a decent job?

If decent all of the sudden means terrible, then yes he was a decent GM.

[Big NBA Fan]

I don't think anybody is saying he did a great job, but he DID do some good things that have already been mentioned.

I think a better example of this would be the Lakers and Mike Brown. He wasn't popular among fans (Who wanted Rick Adelman instead), but he has his current team in the race for the playoffs while the Lakers under Mike D have been a total disaster.

Brown, without Lamar Odom, without a training camp, took them to the second round of the 2012 playoffs where they blew Games 2 and 4 to the Thunder.

Remember, the 2007 Mavericks won 67 games even though they got off to a terrible start that season.

I think the Lakers would have been OK under Brown if they kept him because he has proven to be a PHENOMENAL defensive coach (Unlike Mike D) and even though he took a lot of criticism over the Princeton Offense experiment, it was at-least a better fit than D'Antoni's run-and-gun system when he first took over.

Lakers should have kept Brown or hired Phil instead of Mike.

I still think Mike D is a good coach who would have a championship by now if it weren't for the suspensions, but he has clearly struggled since leaving Phoenix; something he has since said he regrets.

I guess sometimes it doesn't matter about the coach or GM as much as it matters about the fit.

Some examples:

Larry Brown in New York, Flip Saunders in Washington, Adelman in Minnesota, Porter in Phoenix, etc.

Mike D really should have stayed in Phoenix and given the Shaq trade a fair chance instead of quitting just two months after such a huge gamble and controversial move that he pushed for more than anybody else.

[SDC]

I remember last year as the season wound down there was a lot of hating on Blanks. Here's where I think the responsibility lies for some of the recent Suns decisions

Robert Sarver
Hiring Ryan McD
Signing Dragic
Signing Frye

Lance Blanks
Markieff Morris
Marcus Morris
PJ Tucker
Lower of Miami/Lakers 2013 1st round pick (Nash trade netted Archie Goodwin)
Lakers 2015 1st round pick (Nash trade)
Minny 1st round pick (Lopez trade)

Ryan McD
Gerald Green
Miles Plumlee
Eric Bledsoe
Indy 2014 1st round pick
Washington 2014 1st round pick
Hiring Horny

Really, how bad was Lance? Obviously bad choices on Hunter and Beasley. Still a lot of our success this year and in the future can be attributed to him. Thoughts?

lance blanks was trying to make the team better and playoff bound by acquiring markieff, marcus and pj tucker.

mcdo was trying to get philadelphia level bad by getting rid of the suns quality vets for throw ins like gerald green and miles plumlee. the thinking at that time was that the lottery protected indy pick was the most valuable asset among the suns indiana haul.

[SDC]

mcdo blew it by selecting len. can you say bust?

[RaisingArizona]

mcdo blew it by selecting len. can you say bust?

Big men take longer to develop. Last year's draft was bad. Not many good players were in it.

[SDC]

all mcdo can come up with after the trade deadline was randolph instead of gasol. what a joke.

[grumpysaddle]

mcdo blew it by selecting len. can you say bust?

Big men take longer to develop. Last year's draft was bad. Not many good players were in it.

Why do you have to quote him? Everyone knows what every post is going to be about already. And they're all going to be ridiculous.

[SDC]

mcdo blew it by selecting len. can you say bust?

Big men take longer to develop. Last year's draft was bad. Not many good players were in it.

Why do you have to quote him? Everyone knows what every post is going to be about already. And they're all going to be ridiculous.

edit: let's see if he's really blocking me.

[phrazbit]

Blanks was an idiot.

Wanted Felton over Dragic.

Not only did he make Beasley his top priority but he signed him to an utterly idiotic contract. The T-Wolves could not give Beasley away when he was an EXPIRING 6 million dollar contract and Blanks signs him to that rate over 3 years... f'ing idiotic.

Kendall Marshall. A point guard who could not average double digits in college getting taken in the lotto. He is putting up numbers right now in D'Antoni's system, but they're empty stats and the Lakers are getting slaughtered night in and night out. Despite his pretty stats he has actually been one of the Lakers worst rotation players this season.

http://www.82games.com/1314/1314LAL.HTM

Robin Lopez shipped off for a highly protected first round pick that we will likely never receive (it turns into second round after a few seasons). Somehow people are counting this as a win for him. Lopez is a no stud, but a quality center in a league with very few of them.

Traded Goran Dragic AND a first round pick for the horribly awful, embarrassing pile of trash Aaron Brooks. At the time of the trade Brooks was shooting 34% and had recently been suspended by the Rockets for showing up his coach. We traded a younger and much better player and somehow tossed in a 1st round pick too. Astonishing.

Held onto Nash too long. We were circling the drain for 2 seasons and we wouldnt trade two guys over 35. Yeah, we ended up getting a late first and a future first for Nash, had we traded him in 2011 we probably could have gotten a bonanza. We got nothing for Grant Hill.

Shannon Brown. That is all.

How on earth did last year's team do basically nothing at the deadline? It was an awful team going no where and the only change they made was to fire their coach and replace him with someone even worse.

I am not sure how time has made the turd that is Lance Blanks somehow get some polish to it. In roughly three years we can look back and say he got us a decent backup power forward (Morris), and Tucker, a hustle defense guy signed out of the European league. Those two minor pluses do very little to overcome a long line of awful moves. With each passing year Blanks created a worse team, and not only worse but a product that became brutal to watch, culminating in arguably the worst season in franchise history.

So no. Blanks was not slightly under-rated. He was an unequivical disaster. **** him. McD did more positive things for this team in his first three months than Blanks did in 3 years.

[Frank Lee]

nice rip zbit

Did you know he was also a tv color guy for the Spurs ?