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Article: Time to Part Company: No Bullets Ferry Tale
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 13, 1990
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Bob Ferry is out as general manager of the Washington Bullets
because he perceived he could no longer excite owner Abe Pollin with
his ideas to rebuild the team; he perceived a lack of money, due to
lack of fan support, that meant an inability to assemble a contender;
he perceived that while the scouting report said one thing, the club
(read: the owner) would occasionally do something different on draft
day.
Ferry, the club's top basketball personnel man the last 17 years,
indicated yesterday that he and Pollin did not agree on how the
Washington Bullets-out of the playoffs the last two years and without
a first-round draft choice this year-would try to rebuild.
Ferry saw the lack of ...