re: Zion's bubble injury kept secret from team(coaches)?

Phoenix's owner was largely considered one of the 5 worst owners in all of US Sports until basically a year ago

The reality is he is likely still a bad owner...he just hired competent people that have done a good job.

Gayle Benson is a good owner in the sense that she does the one thing an owner has to do: give the franchise money.

She has just hired the wrong person so far. We will see how the season plays out. If there is still turmoil, she will get another chance to hire the right person. If I had to guess...Langdon will just get promoted, which is a totally different conversation to be had later.

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We've seen this many times before in the NBA. There are no words or gestures that will solve this. The common thread in nearly all of the bad situations that become good situations is winning. The team needs to win, that's it.

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We also have two examples where that didn't solve everything.

CP3 had perennial playoff teams around him and AD made his firm decision, according to teammates, the off season after we made the second round.

I'm arguing, we have example and example where winning wasn't the magical formula, and my point is, if either we don't even get that far, or if winning doesn't stop the momentum of a toxic fallout, then what? Firing Griff may solve things, and as I said obviously thats part of the steps you take before the next one, but there is increasingly a scenario where that isn't going to work either. And if Zion both refuses to alter his perception of the organization, and/or continues in this immature fashion, the option will have to be considered given how much leverage we stand to lose soon.