dougthonus wrote:GetBuLLish wrote:I'd be stunned if Paxson got hired to run another team. The odds seem really small of another team hiring a retread who's never taken a team to the finals and who has been disastrous for the past five years.
Like I said, this just shows your bias.
Paxson can:
1: Point to one of the best draft records in the NBA over his tenure
In the past 5 years, name his best draft picks. I'll wait. And drafting is by far his best trait since he's dreadful at trades and FA signings. Yet he's been pathetic in his best department for the past five years, no small sample size and usually a long enough time period for most GMs in all team sports in America to get fired.
Also, competent owners are smart enough to know that Paxson's most recent five years of work is more relevant to the prior five+ years.
2: Show that he has very effectively managed the cap
Managed the cap to what end? Being a GM is about winning, not managing the cap. Managing the cap is simply a means to an end.
3: That he has managed the financial end and made his owners tons of profits and created value without paying tax
A well trained monkey could have made tons of profits running the Bulls organization for the past 15 years. The Knicks are the most valuable franchise in the league. I assume you're giving credit to Isaiah Thomas and Phil Jackson.
4: That he has generally avoided bad contracts and costly mistakes and has found outs for them
Besides this being incredibly subjective, the bar your setting here is also incredibly low. Even assuming he has avoided bad contracts (I would disagree; see Boozer, Wade, Rondo, Rip Hamilton, etc.), big deal. Again, the point is to win. Not to avoid bad contracts.
5: That he has rebuilt his team twice after it failed in a very short period of time
Can you explain exactly what you're referring to here?
6: My subjective guess, he has a good reputation around the league with other GMs
And my guess is his reputation is probably strongest in Denver, Golden State, OKC, and Minny (well, maybe not Minny
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He held one job so far and kept his ownership happy for long enough to be one of the longest tenured GMs in US pro sports.
This has more to do with the incompetence of ownership rather than the track record of Paxson. Virtually every single owner in all of US pro sports would have **** Paxson by now. This I don't even think is debatable. The overwhelming majority of the NBA world agree that GarPax are not good at their jobs. As an example, ESPN recently ranked GarPax as the 4th worst management in the league.
