Sheppard — who was promoted from interim GM in 2019 — was let go after the Wizards missed the playoffs this season. He had been with the organization since 2003 in the front office. – Adrian Wojnarowski on Twitter
Sheppard — who was promoted from interim GM in 2019 — was let go after the Wizards missed the playoffs this season. He had been with the organization since 2003 in the front office. https://t.co/K1jNzYzdET
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 19, 2023
by pinatabyfreddiegibbs
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Let’s get Wes outta there next, Ted
Ted saw that Rui game and lost his shit lmao
Thank god.
damn. 20 years of loyalty to get “dismissed” after missing the playoffs once. This is why I will never get a job.
Holy shit first Dan Snyder news now this?
DC next top sports city?
Good. Shit or get off the pot, Sheppard has been towing the line of not committing to tanking while also not committing to building a contender with what we have. Complete waste of 5 years. Good bye
Damn who’s next?
I’m cool with the shake up, but how much of this is on you Ted? You started this rebuild over a decade ago, and instead of bottoming out, you kept adding bandaids after the team plateaued. You kept thinking Brad plus XYZ was going to get you to the playoffs post-Wall. You approved of a Supermax that eliminated our immediate future.
Firing Tommy for the team not making the playoffs, is like being mad a hot shit for stinking. If you’re going to fire Tommy, you gotta fire Wes, AND burn the ship down. Bringing in a new GM to quick fix this team into contention isn’t going to work either.
honestly, how good can you be w Brad as your best player?
Good riddance
Guess I need to dust off the old resume
Wish the best for him. Time to move Beal and rebuild
Let’s me know when Beal is going to be traded. Even OKC is in the playoffs that just pisses me off so much.
He at least made the 2 Westbrook trades and Porzingis trade, actually surprising how hard he failed with those trades. We just couldn’t draft/develop young players well enough or get any big free agents
B2B years of missing playoffs when you’re trying to make playoffs is pretty bad.
Why does everyone hate him? Did he not trade an un-tradeable player into useable assets? Didn’t he also turn Dinshitty into KP? He’s had some questionable draft picks yes. Overall he hasn’t been that bad IMO.
This was a huge mistake on Ted’s part imo. The right move would have been to hire someone else to handle the draft and let Tommy keep cooking with the trades and FA signings
Asking Tommy to build a playoff team in this stacked east with Brad as the best player was always an impossible task but thats what Ted wanted and he fired a good GM when he didn’t get it. This firing perfectly represents everything that’s wrong with this team
Not even in the playoffs but we got a win
Tommy maybe didn’t always make the best decisions, but he was a real improvement.
If you don’t reach the playoffs for two straight seasons, with KP, Beal, and Kuzma on your roster (with Monte, Deni, Wright, etc), it has to do with the coaching staff, not the GM.
Tommy got rid of Bertans and Dinwiddie contracts, brought KP and Kuzma, selected Kispert, Deni, Rui, and JD as well (And I don’t think JD is a bust, yet), and really improved the Wizards’ roster.
We finally get better players from our picks (it’s always easier in hindsight to say “Haliburton” and others), and we finally seem to get a way better roster.
the “mid-3” wasn’t healthy this season, and the coaching was really sub-par.
Why blame the GM for that? Did you even bother to look at the roster he brought up to you?