Kevin PeltonofBasketball Prospectus looks back at the Kevin Pritchard era... ---------------------------- Ultimately, Pritchard's greatest legacy will be showing the Portland front office a better way than the team had operated under his predecessors. As problematic as the final teams Bob Whitsitt assembled were off the floor, ultimately Whitsitt's biggest shortcoming was his inability to recognize how the luxury tax would change the equation for teams and reward flexibility. (There were few complaints about the risks Whitsitt took when the team was reaching the Western Conference Finals.) In fairness, overspending was common among wealthy teams at the time. The New York Knicks are only now recovering from their tendency to spend first and ask questions later, while Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had his share of early missteps as a tax payer. ---------------------------- -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter