Danny Ferry was railroaded in Atlanta

it wasn't bogus. he said it and he publicly apologized for it.

now, was he caught up in a shitty ownership pissing contest in Atlanta at the time? yes.

did Deng publicly forgive him? yes

did Adam Silver publicly state that, in his personal opinion, those remarks and their context were not enough for Ferry to be fired? yes

do i think it would be a problem to hire Ferry full time? i don't believe so, but i dont know. if the Pels really like what Ferry has done for them, they should dig in and find out what the reaction might be from multiple stakeholders

Does he deserve power? Yes. Should we make him POBO? No. Should we require a new POBO to keep him? No.


I appreciate Ferry for what he has done and will do. But getting a new POBO to completely remake the organization is hugely important and I won’t let loyalty to a holdover kneecap the hiring of one.

you dummies parsing words to feel better about yourselves. you should have kept reading the rest of the post.

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He’s just literally keeping the seat warm right now.

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This is a time of year where GMs are typically very busy with scouting and such. If he's just keeping the seat warm he's doing a bad job.

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Is he doing the scouting or are the scouts doing the scouting and reporting back to him?

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Demps regularly went on scouting trips himself. A lot of GMs do. I'm sure the scouting department helps filter the list of players he wants to see in person, but there's a lot of stuff you see in person that you might miss looking at youtube highlights. I assume they talk to coaches while they're there too to gather more intel.

If his evaluation comes out on top after a thorough vetting and hiring process, so be it, but I don't understand this preoccupation with people jumping to crown people this early in the process?

Let Ferry run the show on an interim basis and let Gayle and her consultant team cast the widest net possible and do this thing right for once.

We got Demps and Monty on a hasty sped up process under Shinn, we retained them due to laziness and a path or least resistance strategy by Benson. Lets do it right just once and see what happens?

I'd be fine with a head POBO with ferry as the daily grind gm

Agreed I'm just saying if it came to that scenario I'm ok with it even though it's not my first choice

We could certainly do worse

Non-issue. If Ferry isn't retained it'll be because whoever replaces him is objectively better (or, at least, objectively better in Gayle's mind). As someone else mentioned I would be fine with Ferry remaining as part of the staff (GM even if the new hire is installed as POBO) but not as the primary head of basketball operations.