Sometimes when a team has a meddling owner things work out fairly well (no one would negatively call Jerry Colangelo a micro manager even though he owned and generally managed the team for over a decade before nepotistically hiring his own son to replace himself) although sometimes things just don’t work out, like the Phoenix Suns now and Robert Sarver.
And when things don’t work out, the buck is passed ’round and ’round until a fall guy takes the blame for things going wrong.
Love him or hate him, Ryan McDonough is Robert Sarver’s fall guy, and even though he appears to have been on the path of rebuild, the path that the two men agreed upon several years ago, apparently not having a starting caliber point guard heading into the 2018-19 season was just not good enough and McDonough’s time in Phoenix abruptly came to an end.