Elgin Baylor is smiling...
The Boston Globe is reporting that Mike Dunleavy might lose his GM role in Los Angeles. Not sure why he'd bother sticking around as the coach but maybe the hope is that he'll quit that gig so the Clippers won't have pay him his full salary (which would happen if they fired him outright).
Also, it doesn't make a ton of sense to keep him when he can't do anything with the talent that the team has. It should be interesting to see what happens here but the mess that is the Clippers seems like it could be heading for an ugly game of chicken. It's bad enough that the players don't care but things might actually be worse next year if Dunleavy pulls a Don Nelson and half-asses it as coach. (And I'm sorry but if Baron Davis can take it to Jose Calderon, then it's pretty obvious that he's just not trying)
For years, people have been mocked Elgin Baylor. Who would have guessed that firing the man widely considered the worst GM in the NBA would move the Clippers from being a laughingstock to something that's so pathetic that you can't even laugh at it.
If Jerry West or Randy Pfund take over, it should be interesting to see what they do (or what they are even able to do with some of those contracts).
