107576, experience as a players doesn't equate to experience in front office
Posted by Warren Coolidge, Wed May-08-13 04:15 PM
>unless you count paying Jeff Green plus coming off two
>terrible drafts (Damaged Goods Sully, then the wack Fat
>Melo/Kris Joseph combo, JaJuan Johnson the year before who's
>already out of the league in 2011).
>
>Other than that, what? Being a Boston Globe columnist's son?
>
>That trumps Grant Hill's past two decades in terms of being
>qualified for this role?!?
>
>I honestly don't know what y'all are talking about at all in
>this thread.
There is nothing about Grant Hill that's a guaratee his playing career would equate to success as a GM without first getting some front office experience....nothing at all.
He's smart...he's a good dude from a good family...but none of that means he would make a good GM right way.
experience as a player imo could equate to getting a coaching job right after retirement because that's about the play on the court....Front office...GM stuff is about business...completely different..
I go back to Bob Myers...one of the best young GMs in the game right now....he played in college but not the NBA....he was an agent first...then Jerry West took him under his wing to work in a front office......now he's a GM...
Kupchek was a player...but didn't go right into being a GM...first againt Jerry West mentored him and he eventually became a GM.
the guy Phoenix hired has front office experience under a successful GM for a successful franchise.... that holds more weight for the job than just being a player.
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