{"id":230823,"date":"2009-05-22T16:04:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T16:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/05\/22\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T16:04:29","slug":"a-message-from-david-kahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"A message from David Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>From<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs2.startribune.com\/blogs\/wolves\/2009\/05\/22\/a-personal-message-from-david-kahn\/\"> Jerry Zgoda\/Star Tribune: <\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>Like you, new Wolves president of basketball operations David Kahn has been reading this blog as the team\u2019s search for a new guy to replace Kevin McHale progressed. He asked me to pass along this note he wrote last night before today\u2019s noon press conference that will introduce him&#8230;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(An excerpt from the letter)<\/div>\n<div><em>I\u2019m a lawyer, journalist, entrepreneur and more, but at my core I\u2019m a basketball person \u2014 a former General Manager with day-to-day oversight of basketball operations for a perennial playoff team, working under one of the finest persons in the sport, Donnie Walsh. My relationships in all my previous endeavors are basketball-oriented. I have spent 24 years in, or on the periphery, of the NBA and have done everything from make trades to sign players to identify and hire coaches. I\u2019ve served for three years on the NBA Competition Committee, which includes only the highest-ranking basketball persons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I know some of you have worried here that I\u2019ve been \u201caway\u201d for about five years, since I left the Pacers in 2004, about four months before the infamous brawl. Not to worry. My company owned four NBA D-League teams the last four years, and that meant seeing a ton of players in person who are now rotation players in our league. It meant hiring nine coaches, from Sam Vincent to Quin Snyder to Michael Cooper to Jay Humphries. It meant constantly working on coach and player matters. So, I really never left.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m as ready today as I will be on June 25 for the draft. The current staff will stay in place through at least July to help prepare for this draft and for free agency. I told each staffer Wednesday night, when I spoke to them on the phone, that I\u2019m looking forward to watching them work, in this new environment, these next five weeks. This is the best time of year for us \u2013 it was always the highlight of my year with the Pacers.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jerry Zgoda\/Star Tribune: Like you, new Wolves president of basketball operations David Kahn has been reading this blog as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605037453],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A message from David Kahn - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A message from David Kahn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-22T16:04:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"A message from David Kahn\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-22T16:04:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-05-22T16:04:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/\"},\"wordCount\":347,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"TWolves Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2009\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/a-message-from-david-kahn\/\",\"name\":\"A message from David Kahn - 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