Is Michael Jordan the worst owner in NBA History?

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Who cares. Wayne Gretzky was a mediocre coach/executive for the Phoenix Coyotes. Magic was an awful coach. Larry Bird hasn't done much in Indiana in ages. Isiah Thomas and the Knicks was a train wreck. Kevin McHale not so great in Minnesota. Lakers would never give Kareem a shot in a serious coaching or management role.

A guy like Jerry West is rare.

Players don't often make the best coaches/managers because their play style is based largely on instinctual ability, it doesn't translate to coaching/management.

A large chunk of the NBA is mediocre every year anyway, there's no other sports league where like 70% of the teams really have 0 legitimate chance of winning anything big, so the Hornets are just in the same category as many other teams.

There's 6-8 actual "good teams" and then everyone else is a non playoff team or 1st round canon fodder.

The Charlotte hornets and their fans care. The people whose jobs depended on the hornets being good and selling tickets care.

Its easy to be a dick sucking jordan Stan saying "who cares" but his horrible decisions had and are continuing to have major ramifications.

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It's also easy to say Kwame Brown and Adam Morrison suck in hindsight, but at the time everyone and their grandma had Kwame Brown ranked no.1 in that draft, he was supposed to be a KG type player. If the Wizards didn't take him the no.2 team would've sprinted up to the podium to select him.

Everyone had Adam Morrison ranked around 3/4 in that draft as well, he was a phenomenonmal scorer his last year in college, no.1 in the NCAA.

Is it easy to suck dick? You're pretty good at it.

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The Charlotte hornets and their fans care. The people whose jobs depended on the hornets being good and selling tickets care.

Its easy to be a dick sucking jordan Stan saying "who cares" but his horrible decisions had and are continuing to have major ramifications.

The fact is though, basketball is the hardest sport to be successful in as a management team. Basically you luck into a franchise player/generational player otherwise you're screwed and those players don't come around often.

The last one who altered a team was probably like Steph Curry? Giannis probably too but he hasn't yet really led the Bucks anywhere.

It's not like hockey or football or baseball where you can as a GM really make something happen without having to have a top end superstar.

70% of the NBA has zero chance in hell of winning an NBA title and everyone knows that.

Management side of NBA is a lot of luck, so I don't really care much about that aspect, getting a franchise superstar you can build a consistent contender around is a crapshoot and not really based in any skill. You luck out in a draft lottery because of lottery balls or something, whoopity doo. The Spurs are the "model franchise" but none of that means anything if you don't get lucky in a draft lottery and the exact right year to be able to take Tim Duncan. If they win the draft lottery in 1998 instead of 1997, they get Michael Olawokandi instead.

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The job of an owner is to return value to shareholders

The bobcats have increased in value by 1 billion, so MJ returned 1 billion to shareholders (himself)

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Donald Sterling bought the Clippers in 1982 and managed to keep a team in what is probably the basketball capital of the world completely irrelevant for over 20 years. And he was a racist asshat to boot. I think he's much, much worse than MJ. James Nolan of the Knicks deserves some consideration too. It takes real talent for two teams in the two largest markets in the country to suck so hard for so long.

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Donald Sterling bought the Clippers in 1982 and managed to keep a team in what is probably the basketball capital of the world completely irrelevant for over 20 years. And he was a racist asshat to boot. I think he's much, much worse than MJ. James Nolan of the Knicks deserves some consideration too. It takes real talent for two teams in the two largest markets in the country to suck so hard for so long.

Given the fact they play in glamour markets, no doubt the Knicks and Clippers (Sterling era) would take the cake. They have a big advantage in being able to attract free agents and still nada.

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Its easy to be a dick sucking jordan Stan saying "who cares" but his horrible decisions had and are continuing to have major ramifications.

Lol just imagine if bran also becomes a team owner someday and somebody tells the same thing.

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Lol just imagine if bran also becomes a team owner someday and somebody tells the same thing.

I would guess that at some point LeBron will become either the owner, GM or coach of the Cavs.