Kevin Pritchard was fired a few hours before the NBA Draft and still took care of team business during the draft as if, well, he wasn’t fired a few hours before. He wrote an open letter to Blazers fans.
None of this is to be taken too seriously. It is just basketball. And, as strange as it may sound, none of the highlights from the past seven years had to do with anything on the court; it was everything off the court that meant the most to me. The little jibs and jabs with my co-workers and the media or enjoying dinner with great NBA friends and counterparts or talking with a passionate fan in the grocery store. In the end, it’s all about sticking together and helping each other out.
On his last podcast, Bill Simmons spent some time discussing the situation with Chad Ford and both only had good things to say about Pritchard—Simmons emphasized that Pritchard always credits his team right down to the scouts. Classy.