You Know You've Hired a Bad GM when...
From Yahoo! Sports:
When much of the league was determined to make a serious bid for the 7-footer, how could Memphis settle so long before the February trade deadline for such a paltry offer out of the Lakers? For the first time, even Heisley wondered whether his general manager, Chris Wallace, blew it by caving so soon to the Lakers. “I don’t know if I got the most value,” Heisley confessed. “Maybe our people should’ve shopped (Gasol) more and maybe we would’ve gotten more, done a better deal. Maybe Chris did call every team in the league. I don’t think he did, but maybe he should’ve…”
Second only to the Celtics being in the Finals is the comforting knowledge that Chris Wallace has nothing to do with this franchise anymore. If the owner doesn't think Wallace can even correctly handle the first aspect of being a GM, making phone calls, then how in the world does he expect him to ever build a team?
