[Jon Krawczynski] Sachin Gupta is leaving his post as executive VP of Basketball Ops for the Minnesota Timberwolves to take a prominent position with Chelsea FC, league sources tell @TheAthletic. Gupta spent 5 years with the Wolves and now joins one of the world’s most well-known franchises.
by irishace88
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Oh Sachin. Why would you do that to yourself?
Chelsea is a fucking dumpster fire in the middle of a civil war between two sets of cunts who dont understand football (soccer).
Why would you get involved? ESPECIALLY in a completely new sport for you. Honestly at this point feels like the guy is allergic to a functioning workplace environment
Very sad to lose Sachin. Realistically though he should have left when he got passed over for Connelly. Made it clear there would be no more forward progression for him (even if TC the obvious and correct choice)
(Also Jon is going to have inadvertently boiled a LOT of British piss by referring to a football team as a franchise given the hatred for US ownership in the UK. Only reason i let it go is because i despise Chelsea lmao)
Damn was not expecting to lose him to an English soccer team haha. Wish him the best, he was great here. Chelsea is quite the historic club.
This probably pays quite a bit more.
Good for him. Clown on Chelsea but the Premier League is a huge step up from the NBA. PL is the biggest league in the world.
I don’t know his personal life but this could be a dream move.
Did not have this on my bingo card ☹️
Chelsea has history, but right now they are an absolute dumpster fire in terms of the “front office.”
It’s quite the crazy story actually. They have an American owner, and there’s essentially a civil war at the top amongst the highest ups in the club.
Fuck Chelsea.
But good for him.
Happy for him. He shoulda been the GM long term but tc got poached and kinda put him in a positional ceiling with the wolves long term. Hope he kills it at chelsea
Good for him. It was bound to happen and probably couldn’t come at a better time for the wolves since we’ll be in second apron jail for a while and won’t be doing much from a FO perspective anyways
I don’t know who this Chelsea is but she is a bitch.
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As a Chelsea and t wolves fan i was not expecting this crossover
Still think Gupta is good enough to get a lead GM role for an NBA team at some point
Ted Lasso sequel
Huge loss, but I get it. He was next in line to be GM, and the Wolves went outside the org to take Connelly. Right move for the org, but tough for Gupta.
I’m glad he stayed as long as he did, hope he does well with that girl Chelsea. I’ll forever think she’s a bitch.
Makes sense — Gupta wasn’t even really 2nd in command anymore.
Connelly is the lead decision-maker and Matt Lloyd is his right-hand man.