Nope that was based off the $2b he is selling to the one guy for 57% but getting to still run the team.
Btw: I have been saying it for awhile now, these team valuations are at a peak. I see a stabilization or decline in the future. Cuban knows it
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Thatās what a secret billionaire would say.
Watching this front office is like Watching the third act of Gung Ho without the comedy of Keaton and Watanabe, just the dysfunction and shitty cars.
This shows games last to injuries for the last 3 seasons. If you look at MPG we have lost more minutes per game than any other team in the league. Priority number 1 should be to get a better medical or training group.
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To my point, this is Mitchās hires, he dismissed the entire training staff when let Cliff go the first time iirc. Think we have to assume heās not good at this despite some early luck.
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Id love that. A training staff with a backbone to really cement the reality that a tape job wonāt suffice for a fragile surgically repaired ankle.
Iām aware that the team cant force Melo to wear an ankle brace, but you can have a training staff that works with him to find the best option and frame the importance as a medical necessity.
We donāt have the details and will probably never really know, but this is how I envision how this went: they suggest an ankle brace, Melo tries it one time in practice and says ānah brah that aināt meā, and then they say āoh wellā and do nothing.
I might be wrong, Iām open to being wrong, but I doubt Iām wrong. I just question the competency of this organization from top to bottom.
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These are the best pillars weāve had in 30 years since LJ, Mourning and Kendall Gill and we got them thanks to Mitch.
Iām not gonna argue that itās not time to move on. But the man oversaw a dynasty in LA prior to coming here and heās been the most respectable GM weāve had in decades. Im just saying, I think he deserves a little Respek on his name.
He had a difficult needle to thread coming to Charlotte. A lot of our fan base has an anti-tank, compete at all cost, do something to win now mentality which in my opinion has led us to make a lot of the moves that kept us in mediocrity and irrelevance for yearsā¦ other fans (like myself) feel like the right way to build a sustainable winner is by establishing a young core of star caliber players to build around which in this market was only going to happen via the draft. Some are willing to be REALLY bad for multiple years to get the top picks that have the highest likelihood to become the star players. While others want to compete at the best level possible and expect home runs on middle of the pack picks.
I think Mitch has tried to be competitive while building thru the draft and were it not for terrible injury luck and poor off court behavior it might have worked.
But what heās done has netted us the 3 best pillars weāve had in 30 years and if we could keep it strictly on the court you could add Miles as the 4th pillar.
Hopefully the next GM that comes in can finally get us over the hump but Iād say whoever that is will owe a big thanks to Mitch because heās already done a lot of the heaviest lifting.
https://twitter.com/rodboone/status/1730361757334405219?t=1YpF26FQxRa-6mq9_LhXcw&s=19
Going shopping tonight. Good grief
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Well this gives me way less reason to watch. Of course.
SMHā¦ you could tell he wasnāt right (limping) when he went back into the Knicks game. Appreciate the gutsy effort. Hope heās not out long.
What a waking nightmare.
Bring on minutes for NSJ!!
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The Boston win was the high point of the season wasnāt it
Sign and Tradeā¦ Sign and Tradeā¦ otherwise we let him rehab his rep on the court at our expense and we get nothing but bad rep on our name for it. Sounds about right for Charlotte and sports thoughā¦ smh
Thatās how I feel as well. We absolutely have to extract some value for him. Heās too talented to just lose him for nothing. But I kind of feel like weāre in too deep to turn back now. If we wanted to cut bait we shouldāve done that a long time ago. At this point why not just go with it.
This with no additional text works for me
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Iām going all āPollyannaā with recency bias today. Last night āshowedā that we have what it takes to win with injuries:
8ish legitimate NBA starters on the roster
A variety of guys who can light up the bucket on any given night.
An experienced combo guard who can plug into the PG role when LaMelo misses his mandatory 30+ games.
Check back after the next game for my updated recency bias. Thanks for reading!
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I can certainly understand this viewpoint. For me though, I can reconcile Miles being a really good player while at the same time not being a great human. If heās going to be in the league, which it appears he will, Iād rather he be helping us win games versus some other team. Weāre a year and a half late if we wanted to stand on principle and take the high road. But weāve stood by him through the worst part of this and whatever blow back was going to come our way has already happened. And it isnāt as if his actions have been without repercussion. Heās paid a significant penalty in terms of money, time on the court and reputational harm. In my opinion, if we let him walk as a free agent, or even if we orchestrate a S&T which will almost certainly bring back less in return, weāre the only ones who lose.
The correct take
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