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Stage is set for Barkley to be the new Suns GM!
Sarver is such a .
Stage is set for Barkley to be the new Suns GM!
I thought Gambo said Kerr wasn't asked to take a pay cut?
Sucks for Kerr, but it'd be such a trade up to see him back doing color on TNT over that POS Collins.
New GM:
As much as David Griffin is gonna suck, I'd rather get sodomized by a rusty machete than see them bring Bryan Colangelo back, that's a worst case scenario.
Wow, I don't know how to make of this. I was hoping the Suns would stay with Kerr because the team looked like it was headed in the right direction. Seems like there was light and a future for the Suns, but the Sarver had to mess it up for them again.
hiring Gentry as coach was a good move. so was getting Dragic, drafting Lopez and Tucker. Amundson is also good and he was a d-league player. i think he did a good job of building this team with an owner who isn't willing to spend.
also, looking for to seeing him commentating again. there's really only a couple guys i can stand and he was one of them.
Agreed accept w/ the Tucker part. He was a waste of a pick.
Tucker is pretty good. why is he a waste of a pick?
How is Tucker good, he's not even on the Suns anymore.
my bad, Duncan, i don't know y but i always confuse Tucker with Dudley.
also, didn't he bring in Richardson? that's another good move.
Yeah, Dudley + Richardson for Doris and Bell. Best Suns trade in recent history.
I thought that was a good move from the get-go. Sure his stats has declined, but he has a lesser role on this team. Alot of people disagreed with me, but when he gets going especially with his shot, he would be the x-factor with the Suns. His stock definitely went higher after this playoff series.
also, i think part of the decision is on the basis of Amare not coming back. he prolly has a good feeling he won't be back and he doesn't want to be there during the ty years that will inevitably follow his departure. he wants to go out with some success, and that'll position him better for a future GM job if he decides to pursue it, no doubt.
Party time!! W000t!!!!
damn that sucks for PHX fans
I am fortunate for being a Heat fan, Pat Riley has been running things down here quite well since the mid 90s
Perhaps this is a signal that the Suns are about to be exploded and go into rebuilding mode?
Sarver would love a rebuilding mode. save money
One step forward,two steps back.
The only possible good thing that may come out of this is a Sarver sell.
Kerr probably asked for a raise... Sarver was just being Sarver...
Kerr did a fine job here after initially ing things up by trying to go from a paper tiger to a legit contender in one season.
If Sarver hires a foam finger GM to keep the 50+ and fade culture going i'm DONE.
Shall be an intere$ting $ummer. $arver i$ a banker and thi$ i$ what happen$ when a banker run$ a franchi$e.
Quotes from the news conference.
Kerr won’t stay on as Suns general manager
By Bob Baum
Steve Kerr won’t return as general manager of the Phoenix Suns, despite building a team that made a surprising run to the NBA’s Western Conference finals.
Kerr said at a news conference Tuesday that the decision was a personal one. He insisted that reports of a contract disagreement with owner Robert Sarver were untrue.
“This has nothing to do with money or contracts or anything like that,” he said. “This is a professional and a personal decision that I’m very, very comfortable with. My family’s excited about it, too.”
The announcement of his departure came just 2 1/2 weeks after he expressed excitement about his future with the Suns and confidence that he and Sarver would come to an agreement on a new contract.
“It’s always important to take a little down time after a season ends to let the emotion kind of simmer and make a clear-headed decision,” Kerr said.
He said “a couple of opportunities” to get back into broadcasting have surfaced in the last few weeks.
Kerr was a TNT color commentator for NBA telecasts for four years before Sarver hired him three years ago. He said in an interview with The Associated Press a month ago that he sometimes longed for the simpler days behind the microphone.
Kerr, who commutes from his home in San Diego, said he would stay on the job until his contract expires at the end of June. The NBA draft is June 24.
He said he wouldn’t leave if the organization wasn’t in good shape.
“I wouldn’t have left a year ago, where we were,” he said. “But given where we are right now with a really good young base of talent, a great coaching staff, a lot of stability, a lot to be excited about in the future, I’m very comfortable making this move.”
One of the hardest things, Kerr said, is leaving coach Alvin Gentry.
“There are a lot of relationships that are very important,” he said. “That’s a big one … Given where we were when he took over, I feel like I owe everything to him, the job he did to resurrect this team. He’s the guy who returned this team to our rightful place.”
Sarver didn’t attend the news conference. Rick Welts, Suns president and chief executive officer, said the owner had “a prior commitment.”
The owner issued a statement thanking Kerr “for all the contributions he has made to our club during his tenure, and for helping to lay the foundation for our current and future success.”
The search for Kerr’s successor will include people inside and outside the organization, Welts said. In the meantime, Welts said, Gentry will take a bigger role in personnel matters.
Kerr was extremely well-liked throughout the Suns organization and there was a lot of sadness around US Airways Center on Tuesday.
“There can’t be anybody more respected or better liked anywhere in the NBA than Steve Kerr,” Welts said.
Kerr tried to explain why people should believe that he is leaving on his own accord.
“This is a very taxing job,” he said. “My kids are 17, 15 and 12. They’re only under my roof a few more years and I haven’t seen a lot of them the last few years, and that’s a very important factor to me. My family’s always more important than my job and this is a big reason for this decision.”
Yet he said he would love to get back into a front-office job sometime in the future.
“Yeah, absolutely,” he said. “I enjoy this. It’s not always easy but it’s eventful and it’s very challenging and I love the compe ion.”
Kerr starred at the University of Arizona and played in the NBA for 15 years. Known for his precise long-range shooting, he was on five teams that won the championship.
His departure from the Suns comes as the team negotiates with All-Star Amare Stoudemire, who can opt out of the last year of his contract on July 1. Stoudemire has said agent Happy Waters has developed a close relationship with Kerr.
Kerr met Sarver through mutual friend Lute Olson, the Hall of Fame former coach at Arizona. Kerr helped Sarver buy the Suns from Jerry Colangelo, then was hired to run the team despite no front-office experience.
Kerr learned on the job.
Some moves worked out, such as the trade of Boris Diaw and Raja Bell to Charlotte for Jason Richardson and Jared Dudley and the 2009 drafting of Robin Lopez and Goran Dragic.
Some didn’t, such as the expensive experiment with Shaquille O’Neal and hiring of Terry Porter as coach.
Suns coach Mike D’Antoni left after the 2008 season, taking the same job with the New York Knicks after what were described as philosophical differences. Kerr said he simply wanted D’Antoni to emphasize a little defense and use more, preferably younger, players.
Last season’s team was predicted to barely make the playoffs, at best. Instead, the Suns went 54-28 and were the No. 3 seed in the West. Phoenix beat Portland in six games in the first round, then swept longtime nemesis San Antonio in four before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers 4-2 in the Western Conference finals.
“This is a huge roller-coaster ride, this job, the emotional swings,” Kerr said. “There’s nothing like when you’re up on top of the mountain, and there’s nothing worse than being on the bottom. The last two years, I feel like I’ve much seen it all. Last year was miserable, this year was euphoric.”
OK so he just wanted to spend more time with his family and be less stressed about his job. Fair enough, given how people were throwing at him during games last season I can see why he feels that way. These dumbass ASU fans who blindly hated Kerr for no reason are gonna get the dumb they want when ASU alum Griffin is promoted to GM, you sticks have no excuse if he screws up.
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