A National Sports Writer mention of Hammond

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100224

It isn't much, but hey its Bill Simmons, and better yet ESPN.

And the owners are blaming the players? Really? Just in the past three years, we've seen general managers Sam Presti (Zombie Sonics), Daryl Morey (Rockets) and John Hammond (Bucks) build competitive teams by prudently watching their cap, searching for bargains, building around young talent and picks, and/or carving out enough cap space to take advantage of desperate suitors who will pay with draft picks or young players just to dump an unsavory contract. There's a method to their madness. They are the minority, not the majority. Most of their competitors sabotaged themselves and inadvertently reduced the value of franchises as a whole.

I would agree with that synopsis, but Hammond isn't in Morey's league. Presti I think is overrated, he fell into Durant because Portland took Bowie, I mean Oden, which I thought was the right move at the time. Their other core pieces just aren't that good, i.e. Russel Westbrook, who I wanted the Bucks to draft, and Jeff Green aren't very good. Hammond is a pretty good GM, especially considering the mess Larry Harris was and put Hammond in.