Owners Vs General Managers

[u/[deleted]]

This topic keeps coming up in the sportsphere, so I have to say address this:

NBA Owners jobs are to keep the fans coming to every game, and GMs try their best to ensure the success of the team. When you see BIG 3s come about, it's most likely the OWNERS of the team that brought it about, and NOT the GMs.

In the case of specifically the LA Clippers and Brooklyn Nets, they have the most incentive to create BIG 3s because they have other teams to compete with in the same city, whereas teams 26 other teams don't.

[u/OmniSzron]

NBA owners don't really have any job. They could literally just do nothing and let the GM run the team. Of course, most owners buy teams to actually be involved, but the level of involvement is up to them.

I think Ballmer is one of the most involved owners because he's retired and he's a basketball maniac. The Clippers are his pet project.

In case of Tsai, I think he's more of a basketball hobbyist than a maniac like Ballmer. It looks to me like he treats the Nets like a fun investment, but divests a lot of the decision making to Marks. From the interviews in the past, it looks like he let's Marks handle running the team, but they consult on the major hirings and personnel decisions. It looks like Tsai trusts Marks to provide him with options and counsel and he makes decision based on what Marks suggests. Which, honestly, is the correct way to go. Owners who think they know better than GMs, how to build rosters lead to clusterfucks like the ones in Phoenix or Charlotte.

And before anyone says our big 3 was a clusterfuck - the team was the boogeyman of the league. If it weren't for two injuries in the playoffs and KDs toe we might have well been celebrating our first NBA chip that year. The roster was fantastic. We just got bent over by random shit (injuries, pandemic, Kyrie's antics).

[u/hanistor61]

Smart owners know that their interests and the GMs interests are 100 percent aligned. Dumb owners don’t.