Uncontested Shots: Who Are the NBA’s Best and Worst General Managers?

April 15th, 2010 by Andrew Ungvari Leave a reply »
My Fansided colleague, Drew Decker, wrote a post last August on basketball website Sir Charles In Charge listing who he felt were the league's 10 worst general managers.

While I agreed with most of his list, I took exception to a couple of names—most notably, the Milwaukee Bucks' John Hammond.

Decker and I exchanged opinions until we agreed to disagree. My contention was based on what I perceive to be a general manager's No. 1 priority, and that's doing what his owner asks of him.

At the time that Hammond traded Richard Jefferson to the Spurs for expiring contracts there were rumors that Bucks owner Senator Herb Kohl was planning to sell the team.

So while the trade wasn't great in terms of basketball sense it did remove the last two seasons of Jefferson's monstrous deal from the team's payroll in exchange for just one more season of expiring contracts.

My point being that Hammond was only doing what he was ordered to do and therefore was either doing a good job or it was too soon to judge him.

It got me thinking about the criteria that should be used to determine the performance of a GM. Is it winning or ...

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