The Joe Smith SCANDAL | How The Wolves BOTCHED The KG Era 

The Pelicans do a pretty decent job. It's just that agents, the league and the media want to funnel and poach star players to bigger markets and keep the smaller markets down. (CP3, Davis, Zion). You can't blame the organizations. Look at Portland with Dame and Milwaukee with Giannis. They have been trying to send them to Miami for years.

The Pels know to run a team, just unlucky w lazy stars and injuries the past five years

​@@thedarkfrost2351Thank you. Brandon Ingram, Jonas Valenciunis and CJ McCollum are thriving. It's not my Pels fault that Zion decided to be lazy, eat everything in front him like PacMan, drink beau coup cold drinks, and smash all the hoes.

@allankojokwahene1675 Houston was great only Yao Tmac injuries held ring.

@@thedarkfrost2351same thing with wolves lol Ant McDaniels Naz KAT Gobert…

Cassell was always an all star caliber player, just never played on the right teams for his talent to get recognized

The Wolves are just a poorly run franchise. 😭 - drafted two PGs ahead of Steph Curry - did not build around prime Kevin Love - traded Wiggins and Kuminga (draft pick) for D'lo - turned off Jimmy Butler from the team - traded 5 players and 4 draft picks for Rudy Gobert This Joe Smith deal did eventually lead to Garnett leaving but everything else since then was just poor Timberwolves management.

@@thebasketballhistorian3291 Kevin Love wasnt good enough to built around. Wiggins and Kuminga also arent good enough to be built around Them rebuilding and getting Ant was the best thing they could do. Everything else here is facts tho

Curry was not trying to come to Minnesota anyway lol. Probably would've played his way out asap

​@@cerebralfanaticFacts. People assume he was going to play for Minnesota when he purposely didnt work out for them and tried to get to NY

IF U RE-DRAFT 1995, JOE IS 20 PICK AT BEST, GARNETT NUMBER 1, RASHEED AND STACKHOUSE TOP 3.

@@PIP...33 yup and dont forget about Damon Stoudamire and McDyess...

@@rexarthur26 top 5 both

Pretty bad draft class

Why did he turn down 80 million 😮 who was his agent ??

Stern a legend and Silver just panders to the players and owners.

Silver is an asshowl

yeah silver would have fined the team $50 and moved on

Yeah crippling the prime of an all time great for something that most teams do was so awesome!

Yea now that you mentioned it, this KAT situation that we have right now is exactly the same as it was with KG. Not to mention the fact that KAT is not as good as KG, which makes it worse. Lucky we have Ant whereas during KG era we didn't have another star.

@@wolfgooner2321 We did have Marbury, but he was jealous of Big Ticket and wanted to be the man of his own team...

@@TyTimeIsAwesome yea but in hindsight he was never that good. Not to mention we traded Ray Allen for him.

@@wolfgooner2321 Really? I love Marbury's game. He averaged around 19 ppg and nearly 9 apg for us before getting traded. Amazing facilitar and could score at will when needed. He was the perfect PG for Garnett. I mean, I'd rather have just kept Ray Allen too, but I think if Marbury stays, we win at least 1 title.

@@TyTimeIsAwesome Win a title is a bit of a stretch, but Minnesota at least gets out of the first round with if they keep one of Marbury, Allen, or Billups.

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The nba union investigated that. Unions jobs will never let you help management. He was worth way more than that. It would have hurt future nba players in the future if they let owners get away with that. It’s all about power between union and managers. The nba owners also didn’t like it because he would have kept the wolves under the salary cap. Joe Smith took the deal because after 3 years you get the bird rights where you can sign a bigger contract. The t wolves owner and general manager should have known that was going to send red flags and an investigation was going to happen. I work in union job and was taught to never help management and never take a job that under pay.

Lmaooooooo

They need to just have 6 teams in 6 cities so they can just AAU it, make them all play on one year deals prove it deals every year, you can't be traded from and if they load manage and don't play well in the prior year it will be musical chairs and they would have to hustle. I wouldn't watch that shit, but that would solve the problem. If my city New Orleans and other great cities like mine didn't have a team then I wouldn't watch that shit. If these clowns are so spoiled that they can play ball, make millions and only have to work there at most 7 months a year then why would I support them?

No Shaq wanted to rap and do movies in LA, McGrady is an underachieving, stat merchant that was more concern about be "the man", Grant Hill had bad luck with injuries, Dwight Howard is an idiot and apparently loved being punked by Kobe more than winning. The Magic has been to 2 NBA Finals since 95 and has had some good ass teams. There are many teams that has been to none. Golden State hadn't been doing much (Run TMC, We Believe) and no NBA finals going since Rick Barry and Jaamal Wilkes in 1975, till Steph, Klay and Dray got there. People forget so quick. How were the Celtics after Bird McHale and Parish till KG and Allen got there? Sometimes teams have good fortune and things work out. The Warriors were about to traded Steph to Milwaukee but the trade was descended due to Steph's ankles so the settled for Monta Ellis. I guess that was "the great Warriors organization" that did that right? Please FOH. Sometimes teams get lucky or unlucky. If Oden, Brandon Roy hadn't got injured and been able to play with Aldridge and Dame they would've been dominating shit. But that how it go sometimes.

@@17thNO then please explain to me why for the past 8 years my Orlando magic have done nothing isn’t that due to terrible front office decisions we suck they drafted mo bamba and hezonja

@@SiyabongaMokoena-nh8fp KG WAS far too late !! ADMIRAL DUNCAN MANU, SHAQ RICE KOBE, DIRK FINLEY NASH !! Superteams because of them KG revenge with Boston. Garnett was 33 old. Dont compare him with wagon LeBronze because KG never went for free it cost Boston 7 players to trade KG. Meanwhile James left for free Cavs got nothing in return and he was barely 26 prime age not 33 pass prime injured like Kevin.

@@17thNO STEPH DID NOTHING IT WAS IGUODALA DEFENSE AND NUMBER 1 PICK BOGUT WHO PUSHES GSW OVER EDGE. CURRY CANY CARRY TEAM OR WIN WITHOUT DEFENSE OR SCREENS.

Isn’t it the front office’s jobs to surround that star player with talent or no? One man can’t win by himself this is a team sport