Rick Sund
Rick Sund
Rick Sundis an NBA executive who is the former GM of the Atlanta Hawks, replacing Billy Knight in 2008...
against certainly improves knock luke
That's no knock against Luke, and in effect, we think this will make Luke even better. It certainly improves our team.
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Due to his outstanding work ethic in his rookie season, Damien earned the respect of our players, coaches and fans, ... He improved as much in one season as any player we can remember and we expect that trend to continue. We believe Damien will be a part of our young, talented core for years to come.
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It's going to be interesting to see what they're going to do, ... They have some flexibility. I'm sure a lot of teams will be calling them.
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It's good that it's a graduated thing. With the amount of money that it used to be, those in the league office didn't think that $500 was severe enough.
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I've told the players every season that any dialogue that a player has with me is private. And any dialogue as far as trades is private because it's just too much of a distraction during the season.
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That's one more free agent we can check off for the year. I'm happy to get that behind us. It gives us some depth at the guard position.
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This incident happened before the season and we're looking forward to this matter being resolved soon.
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I am not so much looking at what it's going to do this year as much as what does it do for the future. What pieces fit? What doesn't? What's the best style of play? The real question is not how they play today but how we perceive them to play in the future.
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He and I agreed that a change needed to be made to serve as a catalyst for elevating the performance of our team, and the timing is right for us today.
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a multipositional player who can shoot the three, and he's a good fit with our team.
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I've known Bob for a long time, but he understands and I think he thought we were going to do better. I'm disappointed in this team. I am disappointed in the fact that a coaching change has been made, 30 games into the season. But we're very, very inconsistent and that's an area Bob Hill is going to have to deal with. We did what we thought was necessary.
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The importance of getting Ray done; that was our No. 1 priority in the offseason. He's really taken this team under his control in terms of leadership.