5 NBA GMs Who Should Be Fired After Wrecking Teams' Offseasons

It's an unadulterated truth that every offseason incompetent NBA general managers will cripple their franchise with poor decisions.  

Sometimes that phenomenon has to do with a meddling owner's influence.  Others, the general manager's bumbling idiocy.

Regardless of reasoning, that doesn't make the fans of these teams feel any better as they languish in the NBA's basement.  

Who are the NBA general managers who put their teams in a position to fail this offseason?  Here are five guys who not only failed, but should be fired for their offseason missteps.

5. Bryan Colangelo (Toronto Raptors)

Worst Offseason Move:  Signing Landry Fields to a three-year $20 million offer sheet to prevent a Knicks sign-and-trade for Steve Nash.  Nash signs with Lakers.

Colangelo has been on the hot seat for years and his dogged pursuit to bring Nash back to his home country reeked of desperation.

The Raptors called Nash's agent at 12:01 a.m. on the dot, brought in Nash idol Wayne Gretzky to narrate their presentation video and vastly overpaid Fields to prevent the Knicks (the assumed favorite) from pulling a sign-and-trade deal.

Alas Nash chose family over country and worked a last minute sign-and-trade to the Lakers. That move forced Toronto to part with a future lottery selection to acquire point guard Kyle Lowry as a consolation prize.

On the bright side, Jonas Valanciunas is coming over next season and he's going to be a superstar.  

4. Daryl Morey (Houston Rockets)

Worst Offseason Move:  Tie between signing Omer Asik to a three-year, $25.1 million deal and whiffing on Dwight Howard (so far).

Regardless of the outcome, you have to give Morey credit for going all-in on his chase for Magic center Dwight Howard.

Morey backed up a Brinks truck worth of cap space to the Magic's doorstep and accumulated the draft picks and young talent his Orlando counterpart Rob Hennigan supposedly wanted for the disgruntled center.

None of that mattered as it looks like Morey will fall short in his pursuit. The Los Angeles Lakers have jumped bounds ahead of Houston in the race for D12 and the Cleveland Cavaliers have even entered the Andrew Bynum fray.  

If the Rockets come out of this offseason with Asik as the team's starting center, Morey has failed his franchise.  

However, even if Morey somehow lands Howard or Bynum, the team will be paying Asik $25.1 million to play between 15 and 20 minutes a night over the next three years. After years of intelligent moves, it seems like the MIT grad outsmarted himself this offseason.  

3. Glen Grunwald (New York Knicks)

Worst Offseason Move:  Letting Jeremy Lin go to the Houston Rockets and replacing him with Raymond Felton and Jason Kidd.

Though it's widely assumed that the decision to not match Lin's three-year $25.1 million offer sheet was the fault of Knicks owner James Dolan, it's the responsibility of Grunwald to put Dolan in his place.

As it stands, the Knicks lost a marketable 23-year-old potential star for nothing and upset an entire fanbase the year a new franchise comes into town. The team then doubled down on that move by selling Felton, who showed up 20 pounds overweight last season, and Kidd, who plays defense in spirit only, as Lin's replacements.  

And even if the team pegged Lin as a one-season wonder, a toddler could recognize the value of his $14.8 million expiring contract in 2014-15. 

2. Kevin Pritchard (Indiana Pacers)

Worst Offseason Move:  Trading Darren Collison and Dahntay Jones to the Dallas Mavericks for Ian Mahinmi.

It was incredibly tough to pinpoint just one glaring mistake from new Pacers general manager Kevin Pritchard because this has been an offseason full of missteps.

Pritchard's first major move as general manager was drafting Miles Plumlee No. 26 overall in June's draft. Pacers fans can try to pawn this awful selection off on Larry Bird, but everyone knew Larry Legend was gone. Bird didn't gift wrap Plumlee without getting Pritchard's stamp of approval.

KP's next inexplicable decision came from the team matching Roy Hibbert's four-year $58 million maximum contract. Not every player who receives a maximum contract is a "max player," but Hibbert seemingly got paid for being an above average tall guy who stays healthy.  Not exactly a banner move, especially considering Danny Granger, another above average player, is usurping $27 million from Indiana's cap the next two seasons.  

Regardless, the coup de grace for Pritchard's offseason of destruction was the aforementioned Collison and Jones for Mahinmi trade.  

By itself trading an above-average starting point guard and elite perimeter defender for a backup center is a head-scratcher.  But doing so when you could have had Mahinmi on the open market is incorrigible. 

I'm unsure what happened between his heyday in Portland and this offseason, but it's not looking good for Indiana's future with Pritchard in charge.

1. Neil Olshey (Portland Trailblazers)

Worst Offseason Move:  Matching the Minnesota Timberwolves' four-year, $46 million offer sheet.

The only reason matching Batum's offer sheet was the worst move Olshey made this offseason was because Pritchard saved him from giving Hibbert $58 million.  

As we've established, giving Hibbert a max deal is baffling by itself. But agreeing to an offer sheet with the 25-year-old center just three days after drafting Illinois center Meyers Leonard No. 11 overall is asinine.

By going after Hibbert, Olshey was quite literally telling Leonard that the franchise believes he won't be ready to start for at least four years. Because that's EXACTLY the type of player you take with a lottery pick.  

On the Batum side of things, Portland seemed to match just out of spite. Minnesota was willing to part with potential star forward Derrick Williams for the right to overpay Batum and Olshey still refused.   

As a Clippers fan, I would take solace in Olshey's departure if my franchise wasn't currently being run by Vinny del Negro.