Everything about the Maple Leafs has to start with Auston Matthews.
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The words of Bret Hart best describe the late Jim Brown. “The best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be.” … You can’t explain Nikola Jokic. He plays a style of NBA game no one has ever played before, and no one ever has seen. The Denver Nuggets are 10-3 in the playoffs, 8-0 at home. Jokic is averaging a triple-double in the post-season. He doesn’t look athletic, he doesn’t look natural, and he doesn’t look smooth.
Anthopoulos didn’t have the greatest start to his managerial career — and at times there were calls to have him replaced. But by the time his tenure in Toronto was nearing the end, Anthopoulos had grown from a numbers cruncher to a deeper broader thinking executive who had the Jays in the playoffs for the first time in 22 years.
That was the beginning for Anthopoulos as one of the baseball’s leading executives. Since then, he’s won a World Series in Atlanta, been to the playoffs every season with the Braves, has become the leading advocate in the sport for signing players early in their careers to long-term under-dollar-value deals. You could argue today that Anthopoulos is the best general manager in baseball.He came to the job, not unlike Anthopoulos, as a numbers-first supporter. He came to it too soon.
The Blue Jays made a mistake when they let Anthopoulos walk away. Are the Maple Leafs repeating history and doing the same thing here?
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