I made a thread last yr entitiled......


"IS LARRY HARRIS TEETERING"


On being as bad as gm as I SAY UGH


Now if only our owner could mettle to do the same and fire I SAY UGH not now but RIGHT NOW!


The Bucks want Walsh too

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/basketball/nba/03/19/harris.bucks.ap/index.html

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Larry Harris will not be offered a new contract as general manager with the Milwaukee Bucks and has left the team, owner and Sen. Herb Kohl said.

Harris asked for an early decision on the status of his contract that would have expired in June, Kohl said. By mutual agreement, he was relieved of his responsibilities so he could pursue other opportunities.

Kohl scheduled an afternoon news conference to discuss the team's future.

"Larry Harris has served the Milwaukee Bucks since 1990 with complete dedication and loyalty," Kohl said. "I believe at this time it is in the best interest of the Bucks to proceed in another direction."

Harris didn't answer a call to his cell phone, with his voice mail message saying, "As always, have a wonderful day."

Harris never made the impact he'd hoped for after being hired as general manager in July 2003. He had been with the franchise since 1990, beginning as the scout/video coordinator under his father, then-coach Del Harris, but failed to put together a consistently winning franchise following in the footsteps of Ernie Grunfeld and George Karl.

Harris went through a stream of coaches from Terry Porter to Terry Stotts before settling on first-time head coach Larry Krystkowiak in March 2007.

Krystkowiak, though, has also been unable to produce a consistent winner. He's 23-44 this season, and 28-58 overall.

Potential replacements include TV analyst and former coach Doug Collins, Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh and former Sonics GM Rick Sund.

Harris' teams made the playoffs in 2004 and 2006, but failed to win more than one game in each first-round series.

His tenure also was marked by injuries and poor contracts for a core of now unmovable players. He committed more than $200 million to player salaries in the summer of 2005.

Harris re-signed Michael Redd to a six-year deal worth $90 million, but also chose to keep Dan Gadzuric for six years and $36 million, while signing then-Sixth Man of the Year Bobby Simmons from the Clippers to a five-year deal worth $47 million.

Simmons wasn't able to stay healthy and has largely been a role player, while Gadzuric has made just 10 starts since signing the contract and averaged less than 13 minutes a game.

Harris has had some success in the draft, selecting Andrew Bogut with the No. 1 pick in 2005 and taking 7-foot power forward Yi Jianlian with the sixth selection in 2007, but his trades were mostly busts.

Without a first-round pick in 2006, he sent frenetic point guard T.J. Ford to Toronto for power forward Charlie Villanueva, who hasn't been able to stay healthy.

That deal came after Harris sent his 2006 first-round pick and Desmond Mason for Jamaal Magloire, a trade that also failed because Magloire never seemed to fit the Bucks' uptempo style.

Of course, that style was always a work in progress, too, with the team struggling to find an identity behind a mishmash of offensive threats and a lack of defensive intensity.

[Edited by - TrueBlue on 03-19-2008 3:44 PM]

Everyone fired before Isiah is far less worthy of being called bad. The fact that guys like Harris and King got fired and this moron is still here is a travesty.

Posted by djsunyc:

per someone at their realgm board:

From what I have found out this happened a couple days ago, perhaps St Patty's day.....Larry ripped Kohl and his lawyers to there face....laundry list of things they wouldn't let him do....Harris was also pi$$ed that Kohl hired Larry K. as the head coach, saying if they were in a win now mode you have absolutely no chance by bringing in a rookie coach.......to bad Harris didn't do this years ago, would have loved to see Walters face when this was going down.......I am also getting the feeling that the Senator is somewhat worried about Harris spilling the beans publicly about all of the meddling and the complete joke his inner circle is. The only coach Harris ever hired was Terry Porter.

Herb Kohl truly is the worst thing going for their franchise. I'll go into some detail what I've heard myself from loyal Buck fans. Larry was truly a puppet and nothing more. Although there were a few things he did which he was mainly accountable for. The driving force behind his firing is the fact Kohl never wanted to open up the check book as much as he did the past 3yrs but Harris talked him into it. Since he did he basically became his yes sir man and set the wheels in motion for him to be the fall guy. I believe it was Kohl who told him to fire Porter and they did it Lenny Wilkens style, by firing his assistants first and he also hand picked their last 2 number 1 draft picks. I think where Harris comes up short are the FA signings and trades he's made, simply horrific on some of them.

[Edited by - TrueBlue on 03-19-2008 4:12 PM]