Worst decision by a GM in any sport this decade
IHMWF
Senior Member
There are many but my pick is for Joe Dumars:
This guy actually took Darko over D Wade, Melo, and C Bosh ( Rue Paul). this guy gets alot of credit for being a great GM but that was the worst move this decade. Similar to Sam Bowie over Jordan.
What is yours?
This guy actually took Darko over D Wade, Melo, and C Bosh ( Rue Paul). this guy gets alot of credit for being a great GM but that was the worst move this decade. Similar to Sam Bowie over Jordan.
What is yours?
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Everything revolving around Larry Brown - After the dismal selection of Lenny Wilkens, the Knicks and Isiah Thomas apparently hit a home run with the signing of Larry Brown to be the team's coach. But Brown and Isiah Thomas did not see eye-to-eye and Brown was his usual cantankerous self. The Knicks had a dreadful season under Brown and did not allow him to stay around to right the ship, like he had done after bad starts in San Antonio, where he went from 21 wins to 56 wins the following season, and Philadelphia, where he went from a .378 winning percentage to a .560 winning percentage the next year. Oh, and this is when Isiah Thomas became coach, allowing him to kill the Knicks in two different capacities.
Trading for Stephon Marbury - Isiah Thomas put the Knicks deeper in salary cap hell in order to acquire Marbury. He dealt four players, the rights to another and two first-round draft picks for Marbury, Penny Hardaway and Cezary Trybanski. The Knicks were already massively over the salary cap and adding the bloated contracts of Marbury and Hardaway made this worse. Marbury had been on three teams prior to the Knicks and none of those teams had won anything, a trend continued for Marbury in Gotham. Oh yeah, the Knicks also gave up the team's first-round pick in 2004 and a pick that has yet to be determined. The pick was protected (see, Isiah Thomas was aware of the concept!) in the top 24 for the 2007 draft; it is top 23 protected for 2008; top 22 protected for 2009; and unprotected for 2010. This deal killed the Knicks in salary, performance and draft picks - no easy feat!
Signing Jared Jeffries - The Knicks were a poor defensive team, which must have driven Larry Brown, a defensive-minded coach if there ever was one, crazy. So, Isiah Thomas used his exemption to sign Jared Jeffries. The team then drafted Renaldo Balkman, a player with the identical skill set to Jeffries, and then Jeffries got hurt. Oh, and they got rid of Larry Brown. Jeffries averaged 4.1 points per game last year and has no role on this year's team. And they have him for three more seasons after this one.
Just deciding to post a complete log of Isiah Thomas, you can decide the worst for yourselves.
(yes I am a Knicks fan)
I don't wish harm on human beings very often, but what hes done to this franchise almost changes that lol
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and i called that shit when it happened
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