Didn’t they even have to let Rick Fox and Dee Brown go just to get the space to sign Knight?
and let’s not forget the deal to get Potapenko ended up being for the pick that became Andre Miller I believe.
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and let’s not forget the deal to get Potapenko ended up being for the pick that became Andre Miller I believe.
I'm not questioning your "well, he did what they asked him to do in Memphis" POV. It would be like beating up Harry Sinden for trading good players for 20 years for kids because Jeremy Jacobs sucked. That's the job.
Wallace had full control over the 2001 draft though and fucked the pooch. It's not the only thing that he did wrong here, but it's the worst.
fake edit: that saying is wrong on purpose
real edit: Just looked at the wiki for Wallace and saw that his first NBA job was as a hire for Jon Spoelstra, father of Erik and son of a legendary Detroit sportswriter. Had no idea that Spoel was third generation sports royalty.
The only results that matter are the ones judged by the person who signs your check. As you said,Wallace was given mandates by owners in Boston and Memphis where he accomplished for years what the ownership asked of him. For the fans…..sure if they don’t recognize that he is the face of ownership then I get why one would blame Wallace.
This was already noted above but it would have been idiotic to not exercise the pick at #5 the following year, since they would have had no assurance that it would become a #3 the year after. So it's hard to envision that it would have become Carmelo Anthony regardless of their decision in 2001.
I seriously doubt that the owners, bad as they were, wanted him to draft garbage.
Drafted a borderline HOFer cures many ills and as has been mentioned…….if Red was telling you to draft Forte his hands could be tied. We don’t know the intracscies of those meetings.
