Danny Ferry is??? http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/cavaliers/2005-06-26-cleveland-gm_x.htm Danny Ferry headed to Cleveland By Tom Withers, The Associated Press CLEVELAND — Danny Ferry has left the front office of the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs to become general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, two sources within the league told The Associated Press. Ferry, who played 10 seasons with the Cavaliers, accepted the job on Sunday, said the sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Ferry's hiring is expected to be announced Monday — one day before the NBA draft. The Cavaliers currently don't have a selection but have reportedly discussed trading forward Jiri Welsch for a second-round pick. That deal could be easier to make now that the Cavs have found a replacement for Jim Paxson, who was fired one day after last season. Ferry spent the past two years as San Antonio's director of basketball operations under GM R.C. Buford. The 38-year-old played in a club record 723 games for the Cavaliers from 1990-2000. He played the final three years of his career with San Antonio, where he worked with Cleveland coach Mike Brown, then an assistant with the Spurs. ------------------- Contract is supposedly 5yr/10million, which further shows how brilliant Cavs management is. I can't wait next year for the Juwon Howard, Mike James and Bob Sura for Lebron board deals...
He's a Duke graduate and has been working in the Spurs front office since he retired. Seems like a pretty decent hire to me.
His Dad did great work with the Bullets for years, up until Wes Unseld took over. Bob Ferry was a player as well. When Jerry Krause was trumpeting his personnel decisions ("I found Earl Monroe in a tiny island off the coast of Newfoundland ...") a few years back, Ferry showed a reporter some scouting reports Krause wrote in the late 60s, when Ferry and Jerry were both working for the Bullets. Krause was ripping apart a potential Bullets draft pick, saying he was too short and too fat for his position, had no offensive skills, really nasty stuff. That pick turned out to be Unseld, who promptly won the MVP and Rookie of the Year in the same season, then led the Bullets to a title seven or eight years later. Luckily, Ferry made the right call and paid no attention to the Sleuth.
My bad, I mixed it up with this article. Report: Ferry is Cavs' GM; Brown out of picture Danny Ferry has agreed to become general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons coach Larry Brown is no longer a candidate to become the team's president of basketball operations, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. It's a long term hire on an unproven guy. Larry is out. The ownership problem in the Cavs still exist while there's no credibility in the front office. The future doesn't look bright or stable for them. If their season ends up as disapointing as the last, Lebron will notice.
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Ferry was supposedly signing contigent upon Brown being brought in. I'd need to see the Akron Beacon article saying this. It could possibly be that Brown (wisely) wants to downplay his hiring for most of the summer. The media is having a field day trashing him over this. Evan -edit- Here we are: http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/sports/basketball/nba/cleveland_cavaliers/11993545.htm Instead of a Philly paper reporting what was in a different paper, I'd rather go straight to the source. They're saying the team will announce today that they're no longer pursuing Brown since they're tired of waiting for him to make a decision. Um.....his team finished playing in the Finals what? 4 days ago? I call BS. Evan
Danny Ferry destroyed the Cavaliers for nearly a decade by signing a huge contract and then being little more than an average player. Hopefully, he'll be a better GM than the guy who gave him all that money.
Words really cannot describe my hatred for Danny Ferry. I'm still upset that he (was a scrub for a team that) won a title in 2003.
The Cavs play-by-play guy was interviewed this morning by FoxSportsRadio and he said the feeling was Brown was unlikely to join the Cavs. I hope Brown stays in Detroit, wears out his welcome, and the team implodes next year because they get sick of him.
I'll have to apologize again for the boner about the GM spot, but a new report from the Cavs owner seems sure about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/sports/basketball/28brown.html Cavaliers Move While Brown Waits By LIZ ROBBINS Published: June 28, 2005 The Cleveland Cavaliers' owner, Dan Gilbert, said yesterday that the team could no longer wait for Larry Brown to become part of the front office. "This organization right now can't wait to move forward," said Gilbert, who announced the hiring of the former Cavaliers player Danny Ferry as the team's general manager. Brown said he would tell the Pistons of his status within three days of his medical evaluation at the Mayo Clinic. Brown, the Pistons' coach, is expected to be examined tomorrow. Brown, 64, who had discussions with Cleveland during the playoffs about becoming the team's president of basketball operations, could still work as a consultant for Cleveland - or for a number of teams. The Knicks have not hired a coach, and although the interim coach Herb Brown is the leading candidate, the Knicks' president, Isiah Thomas, will most likely assess Brown's interest. "Larry Brown has got a medical condition; he's got a serious medical condition that he's addressing," Gilbert said at news conference in Cleveland that was broadcast on the Cavaliers' Web site. "We have to move forward now," he said. "This is our team; our team is in place. As of now, Larry Brown is not coming to this organization. I don't know where he'll end up or what he'll do. He's a great guy and we're very, very in awe of him and what he's done in his career." If Brown is cleared to coach again, he said last week, he wants to return to Detroit. After a season of uncertainty and speculation about his future that was instigated by Brown himself, the Pistons' owner, Bill Davidson, may be reluctant to keep him. Detroit's president of basketball operations, Joe Dumars, said the decision was up to Brown. Brown said last week that he would make no decision until after a doctor determined whether the bladder complications from his hip surgery could be surgically corrected. Brown's discussions with Cleveland became known during the playoffs in May, and he had to deal with questions about his possible departure through Game 7 of the finals last week. In the last two years, Brown has led the Pistons to back-to-back finals, winning in 2004. "It's been a great last run," he said before Game 6 in San Antonio, perhaps an unintentional slip of the tongue. _________ I admit, I let my blind loathing of Ferry to blame him for the Cavs train wreck, but the owner has been pulling off bad moves. He hires a coach and then a GM. He let the rumors of a leak with Larry Brown persist. Then there's the second half of the Cavs season....
