@"Not an evil robot"
Here is a direct quote from Voulgaris on the 2020 draft (in a radio interview on October 21, 2021)....
Donnie 100% bailed on the draft and "went up to his room, office, because his office was separate from everything." Donnie was SUPPOSED to run the draft. He had been given the authority by Mark. But he pouted about Voulgaris being involved as a voice at all and just walked away. This left Voulgaris to run the draft. He stepped into a leadership void left by Donnie. As opposed to leading in a difficult situation with someone that you don't like or is hard to work with, Donnie left. Donnie failed as a leader.
Again, Cuban certainly had his part to play, but Cuban did not run the 2020 draft! Voulgaris did because Donnie walked away of his own choice.
Organization dynamics can be very complicated and fluid, but this was the nail in the coffin for my general and current understanding of how things were in recent years.
If Cuban was the "GM" in truth, he would have been running the draft. But Donnie was clearly supposed to be doing that and then Voulgaris did (NOT Cuban).
Here is a direct quote from Voulgaris on the 2020 draft (in a radio interview on October 21, 2021)....
Quote:I didn’t know I was going to be running the draft. I don’t think it was anyone’s plan for me to be running the draft. But when it came time to pick 18, the general manager of the team wasn’t around.
Donnie 100% bailed on the draft and "went up to his room, office, because his office was separate from everything." Donnie was SUPPOSED to run the draft. He had been given the authority by Mark. But he pouted about Voulgaris being involved as a voice at all and just walked away. This left Voulgaris to run the draft. He stepped into a leadership void left by Donnie. As opposed to leading in a difficult situation with someone that you don't like or is hard to work with, Donnie left. Donnie failed as a leader.
Again, Cuban certainly had his part to play, but Cuban did not run the 2020 draft! Voulgaris did because Donnie walked away of his own choice.
Organization dynamics can be very complicated and fluid, but this was the nail in the coffin for my general and current understanding of how things were in recent years.
If Cuban was the "GM" in truth, he would have been running the draft. But Donnie was clearly supposed to be doing that and then Voulgaris did (NOT Cuban).