Myles Brown/SLAM Online talked to Bill Simmons about the writer’s campaign to become the next Timberwolves GM
SLAM: How far do you think this team is from success?
BS: Closer than you think. Depends on the next guy’s plan and Jefferson’s ability to return from the ACL. But I love the foundation of Jefferson, Love, Brewer, Foye, a top-five pick in 2009 and loads of cap space. Sam Presti just showed with the Zombie Sonics that you can work with a hand like that. You can contend if Jefferson and Love are your No. 1 and No. 3 guys, but you have to find a creator to be a solid No. 2—a perimeter guy who can create shots for himself and others. That’s what they need the most. I have some ideas on how to rectify this, but I’m not sharing them out of sheer spite because it looks like the TWolves won’t even consider my candidacy despite the fact that thousands and thousands of fans e-mailed their team president about me this week. Did thousands of fans e-mail them urging them to hire David Kahn or Rex Chapman? NOOOOO!
Here’s a classic example of why NBA teams are dumb: Even if they bring me in for an interview, at the very least, that becomes a national story. So they’d be spending like two grand on business class plane fare and a hotel for me, then two hours of their time going through the charade of interviewing me (assuming they had no interest). Isn’t that two grand well spent? This goes back to what I’m talking about: You have a struggling small market franchise that has no foothold at all in its region, and they won’t even considering spending two grand to get their fans talking?
Paul Allen and Paul Charchian/KFAN auditioned Simmons for the job earlier today . Click here to listen to Simmons talk about the team’s lack of a connection its fans among other topics.The fans have no hope, the team is going nowhere and has nothing to lose so they should be thinking outside the box, Simmons says during the interview.
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