Long term ineptness of any professional sports organization always comes from the very top. Murray Edwards has been the lone constant over the past two decades of mediocrity. There's no doubt he casts a large shadow over the organization because he simply has failed to commit to a proper rebuild when the team has hit down cycles. Even now I'm worried that if they somehow land McKenna (I don't care what anyone says, he's the top pick by a longshot) that the moment there's a smidgen of uptake in the trajectory of the team that he will be micromanaging his GM to start making moves to win ASAP because he's so hyper-focused on the bottom line and returning to high profitability and filling the new building. However I'm confident that he's intelligent enough and has learned enough lessons over the years that this is the time to take some pain with new building on the horizon. Hopefully he's not standing in the way of any possible trades because if he is, we are probably just wasting our hopes for better days ahead as this owner will never, ever get it.
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