COUNTDOWN to the REMOVAL of the Worst GM in the NBA

[FAH1223]

UNBELIEVABLE...

RealGM Wizards poster:

In the wake of the latest trade, it is time to revise the list of Ernie's accomplishments since choosing Otto Porter #3 in the 2013 draft.
Lets start by pointing to the positive side of the ledger: in 2018 Ernie picked a player at #15 in the draft who looks like he might be promising. "Looks like" & "might be" are the best we can say so far, given how little the kid has played.
What else has he done? Well, lets start by listing the resources he used:
He's used eleven (11) R2 picks -- 2 in 2013 & every one after that all the way through 2022 -- he's used them all.
He's used 4 R1 picks, one of which was a lottery pick. That's all our R1 picks from 2014-2017.
What have we added to the team by way of those fifteen picks? Using all those picks we have acquired:
The expiring salaries of Markieff Morris & Trevor Ariza. & Sam Dekker. That's it.
Trevor Ariza is a short term rental, & Kieff is simply a bad player. Dekker is a maybe as a player, & he's also a maybe to keep past this year.
If we decide not to re-sign Sam Dekker, then we will have gotten nothing at all -- a complete zero -- for 15 draft picks.
Note: I haven't bothered to list our ownership of Aaron White's NBA rights as something we've gotten, as he'll never play in the NBA. & I speculate the same about our ownership of the NBA rights to Issuf Sanon.

 

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[Kunty McPhuck]

Day 5694

 

[Hersh]

can wiz pull off a trade for all Conley ad and marc

 

[FAH1223]

can wiz pull off a trade for all Conley ad and marc

hell no

Also another post from the realgm board:

In the last month, our resident genius has turned the #3 pick in 2013, the number 19 pick in 2015, our R2 pick in 2015, & our R2 pick in 2021 into Bobby Portis.

Coming out of college, I thought Portis was going to be an outstanding NBA player. He isn't. He's a bust. Next year we'll have to give him his qualifying offer or let him go.

We now have 1 player on our team whom we acquired through the draft subsequent to 2012 -- 6 1/2 years ago!

In fact, forget about those drafts -- who are the players acquired since 2012 in any manner over whom we have control for next year? & what did it cost us to acquire them? The players are

Ian Mahinmi
Sam Dekker
Troy Brown
Thomas Bryant
Chasson Randle
Bobby Portis

In order to acquire those guys we have spent every draft pick we had from 2013 until now, every R2 pick we had from then through 2022, gone way over the cap, gone way over the luxury tax, & built a team that is 22-32.

Tell me, someone, how does Ernie Grunfeld have a job? How?

 

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[mastermind]

Ernie trying to get the 8th seed. He wants Gasol and Conley.

I hate this.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Ernie trying to get the 8th seed. He wants Gasol and Conley.

I hate this.

 

[The_Unchosen_One]

Ernie bout to get a 12 year extension

 

[mastermind]

Ernie bout to get a 12 year extension

 

[FAH1223]

The Winners and Losers of the 2019 NBA Trade Deadline

It looks like Sacramento finally did something right, and Washington is still doing everything wrong

Loser: Washington Wizards

In a pure bookkeeping sense, the Wiz did a tidy bit of business Wednesday, shedding the contracts of Otto Porter Jr. and Markieff Morris to duck the luxury tax. But you don’t win medals for that.

Paying Porter $26.6 million a season never made sense, strictly speaking. But it was a price the Wizards had to pay because they had no other way to meaningfully replace the very valuable things he did for what was at the time a good team, thanks in large part to years upon years of missed opportunities in the roster-construction process. The Wizards are no longer good, so finding a way to stop overpaying Porter—and power forward Markieff Morris, who has alternated between injured and ineffective for most of this season—makes some sense. So does trading for Jabari Parker, thus opening the door to declining his mammoth team option for 2019-20 and carving out an additional $20 million in flexibility with which to perhaps re-sign glue guy Tomas Satoransky and rare bright spot Thomas Bryant.

It’s just that none of this goes anywhere. Two seasons ago, the Wizards were a 49-win conference semifinalist, fresh off their best run in more than a decade, with three exciting young building blocks at the heart of one the NBA’s best starting lineups. Now, all that’s left of that squad is Beal, a shattered Wall, Satoransky entering restricted free agency, the ghost of Ian Mahinmi, and what appears to be another bite at the rebuilding apple for the evidently immortal Ernie Grunfeld. Given that, it’s tough to think the state of the Wizards is anything but dark, no matter how much luxury-tax savings Ted Leonsis gets to realize.
The Ringer

 

[Wavy Hair Chipped Teeth]

I've only paid money once in 10 years to go to a Wizards game, and that was to see the other team...I don't see how so many people do it

 

[mastermind]

Imagine having to rebuild a team with your top 3 players under the age of 28.