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2131606, he was just saying GMs take the freak athlete over the ballplayer
Posted by natlawdp, Thu Feb-14-13 02:20 PM
>“You want to know the reason why just nine teams have won an
>NBA title in 40 years? Because if both of them came out today,
>99 percent of all general managers would still take John Wall
>instead of Kyrie Irving. They’d take the athlete over the
>ballplayer. And they’d be wrong.”
>
>Nobody is taking Wall over Irving right today. And you know
>that. So stop talking out of your ass.
>


...and they'd still do that today.

still, i can't believe he had that convo on the record; i don't think Mike Wise is getting any more interviews with the Bird of Prey.