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Despite the Indiana Pacers having a president and general manager in place, a franchise official called the San Antonio Spurs for permission to speak to assistant general manager Dennis Lindsey about a prominent front-office job, Eastern Conference sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Jim Morris, who runs the organization’s business side, reached out to Spurs officials to talk to Lindsey, sources said. The call was received with trepidation, sources said, as Lindsey and the Spurs made clear there would be no conversations as long as Pacers president Larry Bird and GM David Morway still occupied their current jobs.
It is unclear whether the call was made with the blessing of Bird, or made discreetly on behalf of owner Herb Simon.
Pacers president Larry Bird is expected to meet with Simon in the next several days to discuss his future with the franchise. Bird’s contract expires in July, and league sources believe Simon wants Bird to continue at a lower salary.
Bird wants to be sure he still answers directly to Simon, not other business operations and financial people within the Pacers, sources said.
The most likely scenario would be the Pacers recruiting Lindsey to serve as the GM under Bird. Morway has been considered more vulnerable with his contract expiring this year, despite the fact the Pacers have ac ulated several promising young players and played the top-seeded Chicago Bulls tough in an opening-round playoff loss. Morway has the GM le, but works under and reports directly to Bird. Most of the Pacers’ front-office staff members, including scouts and coaches, are working under expiring contracts.
Pacers interim coach Frank Vogel is expected to get serious consideration to be promoted to the full-time job, but it’s doubtful the coaching situation will be resolved until there’s clarity in the front office.
Lindsey is a respected executive, and has been considered on the cusp of taking over his own franchise. He turned down the Minnesota Timberwolves’ job in 2009 and pulled out the Phoenix Suns search in 2010. Lindsey spent 11 years with the Houston Rockets before joining the Spurs in 2007.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...lindsey_050111
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Our personnel decisions have sucked since he came here from Houston. Please take him, Indy.
Raptors look at GM candidates
Three candidates have emerged as frontrunners for the Toronto Raptors’ general manager job, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Former New Orleans Hornets GM Jeff Bower, Philadelphia 76ers GM Ed Stefanski and San Antonio assistant GM Dennis Lindsey are three focuses of the franchise to work under Toronto president Bryan Colangelo, sources said.
No formal interviews have been conducted, sources said, but Colangelo has started the process of getting permission from teams to talk to candidates. It may not be until August that Colangelo starts formal interviews for the job.
Colangelo has held the le of president and GM, but has said he’s willing to cede the GM le for the right candidate.
Bower was fired as Hornets GM in 2010, just weeks after he was close to replacing Rod Thorn as the New Jersey Nets GM. Bower was Thorn’s choice, but Nets coach Avery Johnson fought to keep Bower out of New Jersey because he was still angry that Bower didn’t want him as Hornets coach.
Stefanski is part of a regime change in Philadelphia, where new ownership is taking over and may overhaul basketball operations. Thorn came into Philadelphia a year ago as team president, usurping Stefanski’s power.
Lindsey has turned down two GM jobs in the past couple years, including Phoenix and Minnesota. He works under Spurs GM R.C. Buford.
Colangelo was given a new two-year contract this spring, but with a mandate to make changes and start winning. In the past year, he lost Masai Ujiri from his basketball operations for the GM job, and reshuffled those left in his front office. Ujiri left to work for the Denver Nuggets.
Colangelo would keep final say in basketball operations, and it’s unclear how much, if any, autonomy a GM would have under him. Colangelo has always been hands-on with his coaching staffs and active in trade talks and deals. Toronto has missed the playoffs in two straight years. After losing Chris Bosh(notes) to free agency in the summer of 2010, the Raptors won 22 games last season.
Colangelo, a two-time NBA executive of the year, has come under increased criticism in Toronto since winning an Atlantic Division le in his first season as Toronto’s GM in 2006-07. He’s gone through two head coaches (Sam Mitc and Jay Triano), and hired Dallas Mavericks assistant Dwane Casey last month as the team’s new head coach.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...tors_gm_071411
Lindsey; Indiana can have that piece of .
Screw him and the horse he rode in on. If only Bonner would leave too.
Can Toronto do us a favor?
And six weeks later we get Granger for RJ (assuming the league ever plays again). Scola Karma!
*fap fap fap*
ST's favorite scapegoat.
So whats Danny Ferry up to these days?
oh the guy who worked for h-town then helped hand over scola to them for nothing or was that rc lol
is he working for the spurs?
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