EricAnderson wrote:http://grantland.com/the-triangle/a-tale-of-two-cities-phoenix-and-philly-plot-different-courses-to-contention/
I think when you're teams like the Suns and Sixers you have to look to the draft for stars because they're more then likely not coming to you in free agency
I found Sarver's quote fascinating:
“I am not a real patient person,” Sarver says. “You don’t have the kind of success that allows you to buy an NBA team by being a patient person in business. But it’s just a personality trait, and you try not to make decisions based on that.”
If this were a quote from 10 years ago, it would be more reasonable. But now Sarver has owned this team for a long time and has seen that his actions - selling draft picks, giving up on the pace & space model that dominates the league now prematurely - have been quite costly.
You would think these billionaires would be smart in the sense that when they make mistakes, they learn from them. But what Sarver's basically coping to here is not an insistence that things get done, but that he's too busy to really listen to other people and and too arrogant to really believe that others know better than he does. It's not shocking that someone like that could have great business success, but he's also precisely the type of successful business man who ends up falling from grace because he has no sense of how lucky he's been in the past and may grow ever more bold in taking his shots.
Anyway, there seems every reason to think that Phoenix is going to continue to struggle in the NBA until Sarver shuts up and let's other people do the thinking.