Recently, ESPN's The Sports Guy has been making a push to be considered for the open General Manager position with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He's been talking about it a lot this week on his podcast and has been interviewed by a number of other sites as well.
If memory serves, he made a similar albeit less enthusiastic pitch to be the Bucks GM before. This time it seems a little different.
His argument for why he'd be an effective GM kind of goes like this:
1. He knows basketball (and will never pass on an opportunity to tell you about the 700+ page book he's written about the NBA)
2. He knows what it's like to be a fan and will be looking out for their interests
3. He understands what it takes to build a championship team (three franchise character players and a bunch of role players with good attitudes who want to win) and has the patience (because of his other career) to stick to the plan
4. He would bring instant attention to the small-market T'Wolves
What do you guys think of going so outside the usual pool of GM candidates and actually selecting someone like Simmons for a front office position?
http://twitter.com/sportsguy33
http://slamonline.com/online/nba/2009/05/the-sports-gm/
http://query-origin.andohs.net/8000A...mons090508.mp3
http://podloc.andomedia.com/dloadTra...ons090506a.mp3