Also, Andres found this Pacer article which says that teams have been calling about Troy Murphy.
I’ll bet (but can’t prove it) King (or Thorn) represent one of the teams calling Indiana, as Nets are one of a few teams that could absorb Murphy’s $12 million expiring.

http://blogs.indystar.com/pacersinsider/archives/2010/07/pacers_trying_t.html

It says that Indiana might prefer to wait until the trade deadline to move the double-double, because of uncertainty over the health of Hansbrough and Foster. Of course if they wait too long, Indiana could lose out on the team (Nets) that may be most interested and willing to take Murphy.

I also wouldn’t mind taking a chance at Hansbrough, if Indiana is concerned for his health.

It seems that Proky is reluctant to use that title.

Marks is supposed to be VP of Basketball Operations. That sounds better than assistant GM yet they said it was a promotion for a VP to be named as an assistant GM?

Did Bobby Marks have his title of VP taken away or does he now have two titles?

Just wondering.

I am 25% Guru, on my mother’s side.
For too many years have we been on the receiving end of ridicule and disparagement: laughed at for our name, equated with Greek meat wraps, called Gnu… Sometimes “Gary Gnu,” and then there are the worship and head of lettuce jokes and the Danish cartoons, well, we gurus have had enough. It starts with people like you NI. So, I’d like to begin by declaring and demanding that we be referred to from now on as “native experts.”

I am 25% Guru, on my mother’s side.
For too many years have we been on the receiving end of ridicule and disparagement: laughed at for our name, equated with Greek meat wraps, called Gnu… Sometimes “Gary Gnu,” and then there are the worship and head of lettuce jokes and the Danish cartoons, well, we gurus have had enough. It starts with people like you NI. So, I’d like to begin by declaring and demanding that we be referred to from now on as “native experts.”

is what I’m focusing on. In addition to what the article mentioned he also got Dalembert at #26, and signed George Lynch — who was arguably the third or fourth most valuable player on their finals team — for $1 million. He also signed Bruce Bowen to his second NBA contract, but he didn’t stick.

But it was because I allowed my perception of the 76ers today and the havoc wrought by Allen Iverson mess me up.

Hindsight is 20/20. Iverson was a cancer to that team and particularly hard to work with.

I found this part of Al’s article interesting.

"We had Allen and in a lot of people’s mind a bunch of guys by the name of Joe," [Larry] Brown said. "But Billy helped structure the team based on how I felt comfortable coaching. We were able to utilize Allen’s unbelievable talent and Billy worked hard getting guys he felt could play for me."

With Brown’s insistence, King built a defensive-minded team featuring Dikembe Mutombo, Eric Snow, Aaron McKie, George Lynch, Tyrone Hill and Raja Bell.

"His effect of what he gets done was always felt afterward," said Snow, the former Sixers point guard and now an analyst on NBA TV. "You may have looked at something and maybe questioned it, but it was typically right most of the times. He’s got a great feel for the unseen.

"We jelled and meshed. Some of it had to do with Larry Brown’s coaching but Billy King was the guy making those deals work."

My point exactly :-/