GM Ratings- Kahn at 30
30. David Kahn, Minnesota Timberwolves (last year: 26)
STYLE: Mover and shaker.
THE GOOD: He actually got Ricky Rubio to come over.
THE BAD: There will be many more words in this feature, so I'll just save you the time.
BOTTOM LINE: Not ranking Kahn last in last year's edition was far too kind.
(A mover and shaker refers to someone who is always active around the draft and trade deadline and isn't afraid to use every roster avenue possible to improve his team.)
*My apologies if someone has already posted this and I missed it.
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I have gone from Kahn is great to Kahn is terrible and part way back
to Kahn is somewhere in between. Most teams have far worse contracts than this team has. The team remember is also the youngest. It is going to take a while and a good coach to know how many of his draft picks will really do. He certainly is a mover but often doing ok. You can’t easily do what Pat Riley did in Miami here in Minnesota Spending money like that. If Kahn was in New York he would be eccentric and colorful here he is stupid and crazy. Still, if he gets a good coach and the team improves his stock will rise.
One funny bit from the article
is that it criticizes Kevin O’Conner (Jazz GM) for the Al Jefferson trade!
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold
They're called the Ghostbusters and they're in control
Seems pretty easy to rip on Kahn...
but I dont know that he’s the worst. I also think its silly to put Pat Riley at the top. I think his “heist” of players had more to do with the players figuring out how it was going to work then he did. And the fact that he had all that talent and couldnt win it all is a huge knock on him in my book. Give me Presti or Buford anytime over Riley
"But this one goes to eleven..."
I am no Kahn apologist
but I wouldn’t have him last. If we fired him and hired Billy King I’d curse angrily.
This whole article is a joke though. Donnie Walsh at 10? Did they know that their plans for last summer failed too?
billy king has done great job with nets
by jadedeed2327 on Jul 30, 2011 8:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Good point
Trading the future for a guy who’s going to leave in a year is the blueprint for success.
u can predict the future?
it was a trade they had to make,and a gamble they had to take they alienated favors and harris asked for a trade
by jadedeed2327 on Jul 31, 2011 8:11 PM CDT up reply actions
if the wolves had 50/50 chance or higher of keeping deron, would u make a trade
by jadedeed2327 on Jul 31, 2011 8:11 PM CDT up reply actions
50/50 is incredibly optimistic
and 3 responses to one statement are unnecessary. My point is he was definitely going to free agency with Utah, and without signing him to a long-term extension at the time of the draft he’s probably going to free agency anyways. You gave up multiple draft picks, the previous year’s #3, and a decent starting PG just to have a better shot at a free agent who has expressed little interest in remaining with the team. You might as well just stand pat and try to woo him when he’s a free agent the next year anyways. All the Nets accomplished was keeping any other team from trading for Williams and signing him themselves. It really just seemed like they were quickly responding to losing to the Knicks in the Carmelo sweepstakes.
Oh Noes, a Kahn slam by a guy with these sterling credentials
I’m the founder of SB Nation’s Wizards blog Bullets Forever, where I am prone to composing love letters to John Wall, passionate defenses of Gilbert Arenas and fourth-grade report cards of Andray Blatche. I also do NBA stuff for SBNation.com, even though it means I have to write about LeBron James.
Everything about the way and words Kahn speaks seem to rub people the wrong way. But that is a somewhat emotional response.
Looking at the actions, Kahn has some good (Rubio, Williams, signing Sessions, trading peanuts for Beasley, trading peanuts for Randolph) and some bad (trading for and resigning Darko, pretty much every draft move outside of Rubio/Williams, being fooled by Rambis into thinking he was getting ShowTime instead of a Destitute Man’s Chief Triangle, etc)
I am not a Kahn apologist (at all), but this seems like (surprise!) lazy, repuation-based journalism. What exactly have Neil Olshey (nice Baron trade), Larry Riley (nice Udoh draft & Lee contract), and Chad Buchanan done to deserve a higher ranking? The work of Dumars, Hammond, and Colangelo has been decidedly mixed. Mr. Subterfuge Otis Smith has nearly completed the unlikely trifecta of destroying a title contender, driving away a top 3 player, and acquiring some of the league’s worst contracts.
Meh – I’d rank Kahn in the mid-20s pending the results of a season with a coach not Kurt.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on Jul 30, 2011 10:12 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
He is just sore
Kahn swindled his team out of the Rubio pick…
Now will you all please raise your right hand ... and place the paper bag over your head.
*yawn*
this commentary is so Rambis era Wolves.
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by beatsandpeasnyc on Jul 31, 2011 6:53 AM CDT reply actions
So it makes sense that’s what he’s using as evidence of rank.
"We're not talking about me and Darko in the same sentence." - Chris Webber vs KAHN!
by caseycheesecake on Jul 31, 2011 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
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