Isiah Thomas' sole job his entire life was to decimate his opponents on the basketball court. He was AWESOME at it. Meanwhile, his handlers took care of his contract, finances, unlimited supply of toilet paper, etc. He then went on to convince people he had the management skills to run the CBA...18 months later, the league declared bankruptcy. He is currently in control of the largest budget of any NBA team and, surprise, surprise, has shown a laughable lack of business acumen and positioned my Bulls for years of conference championships. I'll give him one thing -- since his job his whole life was as a basketball player, he does manage to find basketball talent pretty well via the draft (McGrady, Stoudamire, Camby, Ariza, Lee, Balkman).In many cases, the battle between agent and general manager is not a fair fight. On one side you have the agent, a professional negotiator who spends all year thinking about how to drive up the player's price. On the other side you have GMs, many of whom are former players who have seldom handled negotiations. They usually had agents for that.
But for the most part Isiah is a train wreck in his current profession and no one should be surprised. A similar situation would be Donald Trump getting rid of his lifetime private chef and then going on to prepare fusion cuisine delicacies himself at Nobu. Or like George W. Bush going from a pampered underachieving rich kid to President.
Oh.
Damn.
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