CJ Giles... and the Blazers GM's get ranked in a basketball study - OregonLive.com: John Canzano

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Memo to NBA Owners Looking for Front-Office Personnel
Published 1/22/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... unmentored GMs in this study won 17 percent fewer games per season than their well-trained counterparts, they did not build squads that advanced in the playoffs, and their wins cost their bosses 17 percent more on a per-win basis. As I said, these groups aren't big enough to construct dogma but if I were an owner or team president, I would think long and hard about turning the keys to my basketball operation over to somebody who hasn't paid their dues. (Via John Canzano's blog)

Keeping it quick…
Published 1/23/2008 by Bradford Doolittle at DoolittleBrothers.com
... , is from the most well-read NBA blog on the Web, TrueHoop, links to my survey of GMs for Basketball Prospectus. Thanks to Henry for that. His link came by way of John Canzano’s blog for the Oregonian. He, in turn, obtained the link from “an NBA GM” and I, for that matter, received unsolicited feedback from another GM. So the powers that be were reading but, somehow, I don’t think ...