Revived wrote:“It’s like looney tunes around here,” the Suns source told Hoops Wire. “It’s felt unstable since (Ishbia) arrived. He’s a good guy and everything, I think, but he’s just very involved. Too involved. I know he played (college basketball at Michigan State), but I’d venture to say he has no idea what he’s doing when it comes to basketball. Yet he’s making a lot of the big decisions.”
The source went on to compare Ishbia’s ownership to the ownership of Dan Gilbert with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the early 2000s. Gilbert is also a Michigan State product — though he and Ishbia own competing mortgage companies and reportedly don’t speak at league owners’ meetings, or really, any other time. They’re said not to like each other.
“Back in the day, the Cavs’ basketball staff would do their coaching search, and Dan would do his coaching search,” the source said. “He’s not like that now, from everything I know. He lets the basketball people handle that stuff. Ishbia doesn’t. He’s a pain in the (butt) to be honest.”
After buying the Suns for a reported $4 billion, Ishbia made dramatic changes to everything from the front office to the team roster. So far, none of it has worked.
“There aren’t too many examples where a young owner comes in, gets super involved, and then the team has great success,” the source said. “What you usually get is where (the Suns) are now.”
That last quote and the “ Ishbia doesn’t. He’s a pain in the (butt) to be honest” are the most important quotes here.
I really could @ the posters here who kept arguing when I said Sarver was a far better owner than Ishbia because he had finally learned to let the basketball people handle the basketball aspect.
It sucks for Suns fans that we have to go through this learning process for ANOTHER owner. Guys like Joe Lacob and Steve Ballmer bought teams and hired the best basketball people to make the basketball decisions. Why couldn’t we get an owner like that?
I'm not a Sarver fan (are you forgetting the ESPN piece on him?) but I agree that Ishbia may end up being even worse. We went from an incompetent moron that meddled too much (Sarver was the reason we drafted Ayton) and especially early on didn't want to spend money to another incompetent moron that wants to blow his money like some bigshot AND is meddlesome. I very much would have loved to get a shrewd owner that wouldn't mind spending if everything lines up. Trading to assemble a team with 3 redundant stars and blowing up the rest of the decades assets to get them was not "lining everything up". It was maybe the dumbest basketball moves I've seen in a long time. Probably since the Nets traded everything for old ass washed up KG and Pierce. It was wild seeing some Suns fans actually cheer for these trades. Wish I remembered which of you did because then I'd know which opinions not to take seriously.
