[外電] By this formula, McHale sets the standard
http://www.startribune.com/511/story/1032931.html
Red Auerbach wasn't around to congratulate Kevin McHale when the Timberwolves
played Sunday at Boston, but he would have been proud. What Auerbach
undeniably was during the heyday of the Celtics dynasty in the 1950s and
'60s, McHale apparently is now.
You might want to sit down for this one ...
Forbes, that highly regarded, globally savvy business magazine, did an
evaluation of the general managers in the four major professional sports and
ranked them, No. 1 through No. 98 (GMs with three years service or more). The
name at the top of a list on the publication's website (forbes.com) and
presumably in its current print edition was (ta-dah!):
Kevin McHale.
"No. 1 best or No. 1 worst?" a surprised Timberwolves player said before
tipoff Sunday.
Said Cedric Maxwell, a former Celtics teammate of McHale and one of Boston's
broadcasters: "This was national? This wasn't 'Forbes-Duluth?' A guy who
signed Kevin Garnett to a $100-plus-million contract? Well, I am slightly
surprised. But God bless him."
As Forbes explained it, writers Jack Gage and Peter J. Schwartz used rather
limited criteria for their analysis: First, they measured each GM according
to his team's performance (regular season and postseason) compared to its
winning percentage before his arrival -- and then weighted that double.
Second, they looked at the team's payroll on the GM's watch, relative to the
league, compared to his predecessors' payroll control.
"The Timberwolves' McHale has been harshly criticized in the press for not
giving superstar Kevin Garnett the supporting cast to win a championship,"
they wrote. "But McHale has guided the Timberwolves to eight playoff births
[sic] and a .539 regular season winning percentage -- more than double his
predecessor's .244. Winning improvement under McHale has been so great that
it offset a 19 percent rise in salary against the NBA's median payroll during
his 11 years as GM."
Something about that typo on what should be "berth" might make a reader
question Forbes' sports acumen. Also, at one point, even Gage and Schwartz
seem to hint that something is unusual about their list, because one subhead
in the article reads: "Our rankings surely will raise some eyebrows."
McHale, who attended the funeral of former Celtics guard Dennis Johnson on
Friday, could not be reached for comment. He still was on the West Coast
scouting college games, Wolves spokesman Mike Cristaldi said.
Among McHale's fellow NBA general managers, Detroit's Joe Dumars is No. 15,
Memphis' widely respected Jerry West is 33, Indiana's Larry Bird is 36 and
Dallas' Donnie Nelson is 40. Boston's Danny Ainge, another former Celtic, is
ranked 92nd, six spots from the bottom.
McHale's ranking also dwarfs that of the Twin Cities' other sports
executives. Twins General Manager Terry Ryan is at 53, the Vikings' Rob
Brzezinski at 72 and Wild boss Doug Risebrough at 88.
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