Lance blanks phoenix suns

So, you know, Blanks was dealing with a bad deck from the start. But at least he had Steve Nash and, against all odds, a competitive team. Blanks' latest moves -- or the Suns' front office's latest moves, we should say -- have, however, been There is no excuse for making Michael Beasley your major offseason acquisition. OK, so Goran Dragic was actually the major acquisition, and he was pretty good Blanks traded for Wesley Johnson.

Doesn't Blanks know that according to the Corey Brewer Rule, Johnson is three years away from being decent? It's in the NBA rulebook!

So on the balance, I don't blame Lon Babby or Robert Sarver or Sarver's wife's handbag for excusing Blanks, if in fact he was the driving force on the above moves.

But the story coming out of Phoenix is that the key to Blanks' ouster wasn't the franchise-worst record or the fact that this awful team has a chunky payroll and a league-average age or all those bad personnel decisions. It's that he's been fired because he made a bad decision to promote front office dude Lindsey Hunter to interim head coach over a couple of actual assistant coaches with experience, including perennial head coach bridesmaid Elston Turner. This is like cutting Adam Morrison because of his mustache.

I mean, yeah, it's not good. But it's a relatively small not-good thing among a host of important, impactful bad things.

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