Masai Ujiri will be the new Nuggets general manager

Especially that part about people not even mentioning Griffin until his name actually entered the conversation.
In addition, I don’t think many people could even name his individual accomplishments. Instead, they figured that since the Suns made some pretty good moves over the past couple years, he must have been pretty good as an Asst. GM.

Another concern some people have voiced is that getting Ujiri means picking up a bunch of European stiffs. I figure we’ll probably be looking more at foreign talent, but Kroenke and Bearup will keep us involved in the US players as well.

One thing I think we should keep in mind is that there IS in fact a 3-headed monster in the front office. So we should probably stop and think before we start judging Ujiri on any moves (or non-moves) he makes. It’s likely that Kroenke and Bearup will be just as responsible for anything we do as Ujiri will be.

After this season the nuggets will be forced to rebuild. Is this the guy you want in the FO? another kiki v. . We needed griffin he’s the gm that would get melo to sign and keep the nuggets in contension. WE ARE FUCKED NOW. We will soon know what it will feel like to be Cleveland and toronto. I am not happy about this. Today josh and Stan k slammed this teams window for the gold ball shut.

I usually see things Nuggets related in a positive light, but I don’t how anyone can feel this was a good move. Obviously he was not the first choice so how ‘well respected’ can he really be? Also, how else are we supposed to judge these candidates except by seeing the results of the team they worked for? Toronto has never been anything better than marginal and their team is full of lame euro players. He’s an international scout, how is that not reason to believe the Nuggets will be signing more euros? Unless we assume this GM has no real power, in which case, why the hell is he here? Bosh left Toronto and now Melo may very well leave Denver. You might as well call this guy superstar repellent.

But I’m not entirely blown away here. I DO NOT want a roster of Carlos Delfino’s (who was a retread in Toronto having already played for more than one team, not some international star they unearthed), Bargnani’s and the like, who played well in Europe only because they were under ‘do or die’ pressure from the Russian mafia (I’m totally making that up, but hey it could be possible). Bargnani is decent, but I would have never taken him in the draft as Toronto did.

I’m a skeptic here but I’ll give the guy a shot. Unfortunately though, in my eyes, he’s already under a pretty big microscope because I (and many of us it seems) don’t want to construct a roster anywhere near what was going on in Toronto.

When Pritchard is still out there???

I mean, he didn’t convince Bosh to stay in Toronto now did he.

This is a little concerning:

“NBA scouts kind of do one of two things. They either go by themselves and work alone, or go where everybody else is and meet all the other scouts and basketball people. Masai did the latter. He met everybody. He became friends with everybody. "

So instead of scouting he was busy networking.

“He had no cell phone, no computer, but I gave him my cell whenever he needed it, and my local library had Internet access and Masai spent time there as well. "

Also concerning. Guy doesn’t have a computer???

Looks like the guy is just a super networker?? His main talents being that and being able to dig up international talent. I’m fine if you hire these guys…their job titles are called: “Scout”. Or “Director of international scouting”. Not “General Manager”.

I guess it’s fine if they want him to be the “public” GM. I’m not sure what goes on politically behind the scenes but it’s probably something that we don’t give enough credence to. The thing is I hope he hires some smart guys to help build the team and understand the cap (Mike Zarren is the genius behind the scenes in Boston, guys like Sam Presti in SA, or Rick Cho in OKC).

"He had no cell phone, no computer, but I gave him my cell whenever he needed it, and my local library had Internet access and Masai spent time there as well. "

Did he scribble out notes on players in the sand? Draw out basketball plays with rocks in a cave?

all along it would never be Griffin. The nuggets don’t hire guys with common or easy to pronounce last names. Kroeke, Bearup, Griffin just doesn’t match to Kroeke, Bearup, Ujirii. Does anyone know the proper pronunciation? I had just gotten Wark figured out.

This guy couldn’t help Bosh stay in Toronto and now he’s gonna come and try the same thing here in Denver with Melo? Nice I feel awesome about this team and their future now (sarcasm)

Ujiri might be GM, but I bet he gets as much power as Chapman, where Kroenke gets Wark’s power and BEarup is still Bearup…. one thing I’m happy about is that Ujiri seems like a guy that could really be good at working the draft, which we haven’t really had (although getting Ty and Sonny were smart by Wark)…

I read that he still doesn’t have phone, and insists on using messenger pigions for EVERYTHING! I can’t believe we signed this guy! LoL But seriously maybe give the guy a chance to prove himself before throwing him to the Wolves. (<—- who would probably be better off with Ujiri than with who they’ve got now… hehe)

two important things I think are pull of a trade to try to keep Melo and extend Karl’s contract to show Melo he’ll be here….

He’s a ginger, and according to Eric Cartman they are disgusting and wouldn’t survive in our 300 days of sunshine here in Colorado :p

But the only reason was because I couldn’t even believe the offer Kroenke gave Griffin, our number one candidate. Now I’ve settled down a bit and after reading up on Uriji I’m a little more hopeful. He seems like a guy who wants this oppertunity, which I like. He seems very personalbe and possibly gregarious, which I also like. And he really seems like a hard worker, which I too like. From the sounds of if he basically worked his way up to assistant GM from absolutely nothing, which is impressive. And he clearly has an eye for talent, and did what was asked of him in Toronto. If you look at it like his job was to scout and bring in foreign talent, then he did one hell of a job in Toronto. The thing that scares me a bit is lack of experience and the dire situation we are in right now. The next year is going to be maybe the most pivitol in Nuggets history. It kind of worries me that we have such little experience between Josh and Uriji to handle this situation but at the same time I’m excited to see what they can do.