Filling The Dunleavy Void
Last month, Mike Dunleavy stepped down as the head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers and last night, he was fired as the general manager. Many Clippers fans, all one thousand of them seemed to rejoice at the news of Dunleavy’s departure from the team, but it leaves a rather gaping hole for the Clippers to fill right before the start of the summer 2010 arms race.
Let’s taking a good, hard look at the potential candidates to fill Dunleavy’s awfully big loafers with the Clippers:
- LeBron James’ friends. Clippers owner Donald Sterling could literally give the King the keys to the Staples castle and let him pick who he wants to coach and run the team. Why not let Bron’s buddies run the show? Wait, a minute, this sounds like an idea we should pitch to the producers of “Entourage,” and “How To Make It In America”….We could call it “Superstar” and use that Lupe Fiasco song or call it “In The Pursuit of Greatness”…… If Sterling is willing to spend and able to get LeBron into a Clippers uniform, then let him pick who wants to coach and run the show.
- Isiah Thomas may have set the New York Knicks back ten years as a franchise, but what’s the worst thing he could do with the red headed step child of Los Angeles? No one is going to notice if Thomas leads the Clippers to a 32-50 season.
- A Chicken. If wacky morning radio shows use animals to pick the winner of the Super Bowl, one has to assume that a chicken or a duck or a goat could do a better job at Dunleavy.
- Clipper Darrell, I believe, is the only person in Southern California that loves the franchise. Clipper Darrell would be the only person that would love this job and treat it with the utmost respect.
- Bloggers. Hey Donald Sterling, I just sent my resume in. I think we could go far as a team after we give Rudy Gay a max contract in the off season. I also would like to change the uniform colors to Silver and Black.
