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Post by Ian Noble on Jul 10, 2015 13:51:35 GMT
Vlade Divac Fired
As you can all see, there's been a lot of anger surrounding Marc Gasol's signing with the Milwaukee Bucks.
For the first time in league history I have banned a GM. Vlade Divac's account has now been disabled.
It is ok to get angry about a player leaving your team.
It is not ok to:
Marc Gasol would have signed with the Kings if Vlade had not become angry, for seemingly no reason, and withdrawn his offer, and then gone on this crusade to achieve... I don't know what exactly.
Allegations of corruption:
More than anything else it concerns me that other GMs now feel like there's something fishy going on.
To clear up any confusion: Glenn Robinson was fired from the Staff Team back in 2013 because Vlade Divac submitted evidence (and allowed me to access his account in order to see the evidence) of Glenn giving preference to him in negotiations in exchange for favors himself.
Vlade brought up this history because he was angry that Milwaukee had signed Marc Gasol and that's as far as it goes, from what I can see. If anybody has any evidence of any corruption at all I would request that you let me know and I will deal with it in the same way as I dealt with Glenn's situation.
More importantly: after Glenn was fired I trawled through all of his old transactions and player agent negotiations to see if we could find evidence of him cheating, but nothing concrete was found. If I had found anything I would not have allowed him to continue as a GM because his team would have been built not on talent, but on cheating. However this is not the case and Glenn Robinson should not be hounded out of the league, especially not by other GMs with nothing other than a grudge.
I am very sorry to all those involved, including Vlade, and I hope enough of you can read the threads that Vlade has posted and make up your own minds instead of jumping on this bandwagon.
As you can all see, there's been a lot of anger surrounding Marc Gasol's signing with the Milwaukee Bucks.
For the first time in league history I have banned a GM. Vlade Divac's account has now been disabled.
It is ok to get angry about a player leaving your team.
It is not ok to:
Get angry with a player agent, like Vlade did, before a decision was even made.
Label a player agent as corrupt with no evidence, in fact a lot of evidence to the contrary.
Call for other GMs to quit.
Spread this maliciousness across the entire league and try to enlist other GMs.
Marc Gasol would have signed with the Kings if Vlade had not become angry, for seemingly no reason, and withdrawn his offer, and then gone on this crusade to achieve... I don't know what exactly.
Allegations of corruption:
More than anything else it concerns me that other GMs now feel like there's something fishy going on.
To clear up any confusion: Glenn Robinson was fired from the Staff Team back in 2013 because Vlade Divac submitted evidence (and allowed me to access his account in order to see the evidence) of Glenn giving preference to him in negotiations in exchange for favors himself.
Vlade brought up this history because he was angry that Milwaukee had signed Marc Gasol and that's as far as it goes, from what I can see. If anybody has any evidence of any corruption at all I would request that you let me know and I will deal with it in the same way as I dealt with Glenn's situation.
More importantly: after Glenn was fired I trawled through all of his old transactions and player agent negotiations to see if we could find evidence of him cheating, but nothing concrete was found. If I had found anything I would not have allowed him to continue as a GM because his team would have been built not on talent, but on cheating. However this is not the case and Glenn Robinson should not be hounded out of the league, especially not by other GMs with nothing other than a grudge.
I am very sorry to all those involved, including Vlade, and I hope enough of you can read the threads that Vlade has posted and make up your own minds instead of jumping on this bandwagon.
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