Why do you think it is that in baseball & football, guys have to bide their time whether scouting or coming from the negotiation side of things (especially in the NFL w/ the cap), long before they are ready to become GMs.

Yet, in the NBA, ex-players like Paxson, Mullin, Ainge, McHale, Isiah, Dumars and perhaps Kenny Smith assume the GM role with little to no experience.

????

Maybe the number of positions on the field in baseball and football make it more complicated and requires a larger range of experience?

Posted by purple012870:

Why do you think it is that in baseball & football, guys have to bide their time whether scouting or coming from the negotiation side of things (especially in the NFL w/ the cap), long before they are ready to become GMs.

Yet, in the NBA, ex-players like Paxson, Mullin, Ainge, McHale, Isiah, Dumars and perhaps Kenny Smith assume the GM role with little to no experience.

????

Five of those seven won championships, so they had pull. But this is such a small number to use as an example. Maybe you should do an entire research, to find out how everyone who was ever a GM, became a GM and what their background was in relation to the NBA. I for one would like to see something like that. I'm sure there have been some favoritism through the years, but a lot of those guys went through the ranks to get to where they got.

I like people who have a lot of experience myself and even more so is they where winners. Now don't start in on me again about D'Antoni. I am just so sick and tired of people coming here who haven't proved a damn thing.

That's the way I feel and I say that in a nice way.