After the trade that went down today, i have renewed my hatred for Ernie Grunfield.
He was on my good side in the 2000's when he assembled the "Big 3" (Arenas, Butler, Jamison) and he did a pretty damn good job at that. Arenas was an mvp candidate to go along with 2 20 ppg scorers, but the Wizards were always 1-2 key role players away from a championship. Arenas blows his knee out and the season is lost, thats fine. But what isn't fine is the fact that Ernie Grunfield decided to trade the #5 pick in the draft for Mike Miller and Randy Foye. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?????? THis is an abysmal trade and that #5 pick, yea that ended up being some guy named Ricky Rubio, i heard that he's pretty good? (Hatred for Ernie Grunfield right now 9/10)
Arenas goes all ape **** and ruins the great run that the Wizards had, we unload Jamison and Butler which was a sad ending. He made a good trade with the Magic to get Rashard Lewis---basically all this did was give the wizards 1 less year to pay off that horrible contract that Arenas had. (Hate level 5/10)
Wizards get John Wall and the future looks bright, Grunfield also makes some underrated trades to acquire Jordan Crawford and Kevin Seraphin who have blossomed into solid role players. Nick Young starts to show his potential as a pure shooter (Hate Level 4/10)
Then we come into this year, a horrible season (supposed to be Grunfields last) but he comes up with a great trade to get Javale and his 30 IQ out of town and he also gets value for Nick YOung who wasn't going to resign with us anyways. We got NeNe, giving us a solid low post player, but he's injury prone. However, i still like the deal and hen healthy, the Wizards showed that they have promise. THis false hope of promise leads to Ted Leonsis bringing back Ernie Grunfield. WTF WAS HE THINKING? THIS IS THE MAN THAT COULDNT WIN WITH THE BEST 3 MAN COMBO IN THE NBA, TRADED AWAY RICKY RUBIO, AND OH YEA, HE DRAFTED HORRIBLY IN GETTING JAVALE MCGEE AND ANDRAY BLATCHE. THE ONLY REASON HE DIDNT SCREW UP THE 2010 DRAFT IS BECAUSE JOHN WALL WAS SUCH A NO BRAINER (Hatred Level 7/10)
This all leads up to the trade that went down today. Rashard Lewis and a 2n round pick for Okafor and Ariza. Both of these players will take up $42 million over the next two seasons which gives the Wizards no room to sign free agents. The wizards desperately needed more shooting which will make it easier for John Wall's drive and kick plays. No, we get an overpaid average perimeter defender, and an overpaid bust. Not only was this tree horrible, a few weeks ago, the Hornets were talking about throwing in the #10 pick to take those two contracts off of their books, instead, they gained a second round pick. (Hatred Level 10/10)
Ernie Grunfield has been a better GM for the Timberwolves and the Hornets than he has been for the Wizards. The T'Wolves are on the rise and the Hornets can now sign Eric Gordon to a long term deal and STILL have over $20 million to spend on free agents like someone, oh i don't know, Deron Williams? Now that isn't likely to happen, but it could. THe Hornets are a lot closer to becoming real contenders than people think and they have Erinie Grunfield to thank for that.
If you read that entire rant, may god bless your soul
He was on my good side in the 2000's when he assembled the "Big 3" (Arenas, Butler, Jamison) and he did a pretty damn good job at that. Arenas was an mvp candidate to go along with 2 20 ppg scorers, but the Wizards were always 1-2 key role players away from a championship. Arenas blows his knee out and the season is lost, thats fine. But what isn't fine is the fact that Ernie Grunfield decided to trade the #5 pick in the draft for Mike Miller and Randy Foye. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?????? THis is an abysmal trade and that #5 pick, yea that ended up being some guy named Ricky Rubio, i heard that he's pretty good? (Hatred for Ernie Grunfield right now 9/10)
Arenas goes all ape **** and ruins the great run that the Wizards had, we unload Jamison and Butler which was a sad ending. He made a good trade with the Magic to get Rashard Lewis---basically all this did was give the wizards 1 less year to pay off that horrible contract that Arenas had. (Hate level 5/10)
Wizards get John Wall and the future looks bright, Grunfield also makes some underrated trades to acquire Jordan Crawford and Kevin Seraphin who have blossomed into solid role players. Nick Young starts to show his potential as a pure shooter (Hate Level 4/10)
Then we come into this year, a horrible season (supposed to be Grunfields last) but he comes up with a great trade to get Javale and his 30 IQ out of town and he also gets value for Nick YOung who wasn't going to resign with us anyways. We got NeNe, giving us a solid low post player, but he's injury prone. However, i still like the deal and hen healthy, the Wizards showed that they have promise. THis false hope of promise leads to Ted Leonsis bringing back Ernie Grunfield. WTF WAS HE THINKING? THIS IS THE MAN THAT COULDNT WIN WITH THE BEST 3 MAN COMBO IN THE NBA, TRADED AWAY RICKY RUBIO, AND OH YEA, HE DRAFTED HORRIBLY IN GETTING JAVALE MCGEE AND ANDRAY BLATCHE. THE ONLY REASON HE DIDNT SCREW UP THE 2010 DRAFT IS BECAUSE JOHN WALL WAS SUCH A NO BRAINER (Hatred Level 7/10)
This all leads up to the trade that went down today. Rashard Lewis and a 2n round pick for Okafor and Ariza. Both of these players will take up $42 million over the next two seasons which gives the Wizards no room to sign free agents. The wizards desperately needed more shooting which will make it easier for John Wall's drive and kick plays. No, we get an overpaid average perimeter defender, and an overpaid bust. Not only was this tree horrible, a few weeks ago, the Hornets were talking about throwing in the #10 pick to take those two contracts off of their books, instead, they gained a second round pick. (Hatred Level 10/10)
Ernie Grunfield has been a better GM for the Timberwolves and the Hornets than he has been for the Wizards. The T'Wolves are on the rise and the Hornets can now sign Eric Gordon to a long term deal and STILL have over $20 million to spend on free agents like someone, oh i don't know, Deron Williams? Now that isn't likely to happen, but it could. THe Hornets are a lot closer to becoming real contenders than people think and they have Erinie Grunfield to thank for that.
If you read that entire rant, may god bless your soul
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