Clippers, Dunleavy Sever Ties

…when you read this paragraph from the Clippers statement:

“The organization has determined that the goal of building a winning team is best served by making this decision at this time. The team has simply not made sufficient progress during Dunleavy’s seven-year tenure. The Clippers want to win now. This transition, in conjunction with a full commitment to dedicate unlimited resources, is designed to accomplish that objective.”

Usually, even if it’s a firing, the company says, “thanks to Dunleavy for what he’s done, we wish him the best, blah blah blah.” This statement lays things out quite clearly and bluntly.

if we told maverick carter he could be the GM, if he brought lebron , i could be ok with that.

I can’t belive they finally did it. They gave Dunleavy the can of Campbell’s soup he always deserved. Now let’s hope they don’t do something stupid like bringing back Larry Brown.

I’d sign Byron instead so we can trade Baron, only because he seems disinterested in playing the right way for us.

how about GM bill simmons, coach sam cassell.

i would liek to see this.

What super star player would want to be here with Duns history with the team. It’s bad enough we have a name tied with losing. Now all we need are some modern jerseys and we can be the Denver Nuggets. Remember we still have a potential franchise player in Blake.

…to win a championship. It’s just that he may not have the smarts or the gonads to pull it off. Or to pick the right people to run the team and make it happen. His track record in that regard is atrocious.

Who knows until it happens (getting a gm and coach) but he might be commited to winning now i’ve read some articles on him. And he’s tired of being a laughing stock of the league. There going to do something big. Something big like when Al Bundy took bud to the nudy bar for his birthday big. The clippers are in the right market where if they make the playoffs every year he will make alot of cash. And may be he see’s that the lakers are on the decline which gives the clippers a chance to be la’s new team when Kobe leaves. We all know la fans are wishy washy

We are entering the new life

Didn’t see this coming. What finally put DTS over the top? Dunleavy just got finished revamping the roster, clearing space, and putting $$ back in the owner’s pocket. They seemed primed to make a run at a big name.

Say what you will about Dunleavy, but at least his staying on as GM provided some stability..

If LBJ didn’t want to come here before, why would he come here now?

I wonder if this Larry Brown thing has anything to do with this, or if the old Jerry West rumors are real.

So in light of this news, I’m wondering again about our motivations for trading with Portland. In my efforts to construe Dunleavy’s moves as scheming and savvy, I have thought that this trade must have been for the purpose of maximizing our offseason options and giving us the best chance to land a big name. The logic was that if the team remained competitive this season (with players we could choose to resign), then we’d look more like a team on the rise, plus our draft pick would likely be more affordable.

But what if that’s just not the case. What if Dunleavy motivations had more to do with self preservation? Perhaps he traded for Blake and Outlaw in order to win as much as possible right now, so as to cover his ass before an impatient owner.

The fact is, we could have gotten some prospects for Camby and taken our lumps with a depleted bench in the short term. But maybe such a sacrifice wasn’t within DTS’s scope of acceptability. The guy may in fact have winning on his bucket list, and he may have the $ to back it up. But I don’t trust his vision at all.

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DTS has always been a looser. He needs to be willing to lose money on the Clippers in order to have a chance on consistently winning! Look at Cuban, he is the type of owner the clips need! DTS is already rich, and he needs to start loosing $ with the clips to get
a winning team. Lakers have Buss, and the Clips have DTS – enough said!!!

i wonder why DTS could have just fired GM Dunny AFTER this summer…regardless he’s going to get paid for all those unanswered phone calls to Lebron anyways…