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Suns, Hornets Move to Fill GM Jobs

With the NBA's free agency period reaching its later stages, the Phoenix Suns are among three teams that remain without the very men who are paid to make those player hires. There is, however, incremental progress on that front. According to league sources, Phoenix owner Robert Sarver interviewed San Antonio vice...

Blazers May Be Gone, but GM Kevin Pritchard Should Stay

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The dead man walking couldn't have looked more alive on Thursday night. Kevin Pritchard was being Kevin Pritchard again, the Portland general manager mingling on the Rose Garden floor while wondering like the rest of the Rip City residents whether his team had one last punch in store. True to their...

Does Agent Deserve Blame for Odd Blazers Pink Slip?

All parties in the messy dismissal of Blazers assistant general manager Tom Penn last week have sought to frame the issue in their own favor, no different than with any other bungle.The Blazers officially canned Penn on the basis of "philosophical differences," while unofficial theories have centered on a power struggle...

Details on Portland's Front Office Shakeup Emerge

On Tuesday, the Blazers sacked Tom Penn, the team's assistant general manager and V.P. of basketball ops, citing "philosophical differences." In the immediate aftermath, no one knew what to make of it. Had Penn clashed with his boss Kevin Pritchard, the respected Blazers G.M. who had been seen as a close ally of Penn? Had...

Blazers Sack Front Office's No. 2

The loud respect Portland general manager Kevin Pritchard has garnered during the rise of the Blazers has almost become a running joke -- a "Pritchslap" is bestowed by fans any time the G.M. is seen to have executed a favorable trade. This reputation and potential envy among the G.M. fraternity regarding Pritchard's...

Background on Tom Penn

Tom Penn is an NBA analyst on ESPN where he is regularly featured as a basketball operations expert on advanced analytics, salary cap issues, the NBA Draft, player trades and collective bargaining issues.

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