NEWS: Donnie out | Nico Harrison (Nike) as Pres/GM | Fin as VP | Dirk as Advisor

[Tyler]

Wow, I missed this, but feel like it might be encouraging. Can you summarize it?

Key Quote:

"In the past, we've had some pretty sketchy draft-room discussions. ... I guess sketchy is the wrong word. I just think it was in some of the past drafts that I witnessed, there wasn't a clear-cut favorite among the scouts. The scouts had their favorite guys and sometimes they were pushing for those guys instead of having a collective feel on one particular guy," Finley told the station.

So how did Finley and president Donnie Nelson change the talk this time around?

"Giving us a little structure in the draft room kind of helped that," Finley said. "So we implemented a plan where we ranked the particular players, me along with the scouts, and we came up with A.J. Hammons."

*Insert A.J. Hammons joke here.*

There's also more to the story than that one quote, but I just can't find good sources right now. Basically, Finley brought order to a pretty lackluster draft process. I've always thought this was a good example of how 1. Donnie was a lot less organized than you'd think for a GM, and 2. Finley was a productive professional influence that the organization needed. That's one reason I think he can still have a strong role with the team now.