In a column for ESPN, Mike Mazzeo argues that hiring Danny Ferry would be a "mistake" because of his "negative baggage" from that 2014 racial scandal that cost him his job in Atlanta and his "lifelong" relationship with Billy King..
The "baggage" is well known, as Mazzeo writes...
Ferry ultimately stepped down from his post as GM of the Atlanta Hawks after he read a racially insensitive scouting report about potential free agent-to-be Luol Deng during a conference call with ownership.
The scouting report said that Deng -- who will face the Nets on Tuesday night at Barclays Center as a member of Miami Heat -- "has a little African in him" before adding, "He’s like a guy who would have a nice store out front and sell you counterfeit stuff out of the back.