Rick Welts: Suns President.... or Fashion Icon??

by eagleheart on May 6, 2009 3:51 PM MDT

"During Rick's seven years with the Suns he has distinguished himself as one of professional sports best operators. Our creativity and success in areas such as marketing partnerships, technology, branding, customer service and this year's NBA All-Star events have all been a result of Rick's leadership," said Suns Owner Robert Sarver.

What does this mean? It is clear that Mr. Welts sports an impressive sales pitch (and a 100$ haircut) and has used it to suceed in marketing and customer service.

I wonder how that prepares him for his role as Suns President though. All considered, I am optimistic that he can do a great job in an official suns cheerleader/salesman role for potential free agents and so forth. The guy is clearly way too short to have actually played basketball though if you see how big the (womens?) ball is compared to the guy. Let us hope he isn't as "hands on" as Sarver has been or even worse Sarver stays really hands on and adds another set of hands to the decision making above Kerr.

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That must be a giant

basketball or some photo trickery…I’ve meet Rick and he’s not a little guy. Maybe 6’2"??

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by Seth Pollack on May 6, 2009 4:26 PM MDT reply actions

No trick

Thats the photo that was in the AZ Republic. It’s not fake. If he is not a mini me as you say, then he just looks small because the basketball is closer to the camera.

by eagleheart on May 6, 2009 10:47 PM MDT reply actions

Even if it's from the AZ Republic, something's off about that picture

Without even zooming you can see the ball’s closer to a football than a basketball, and when you do zoom you can see that his hand is as long as his forearm.

by hcblankscreen on May 7, 2009 12:52 AM MDT up reply actions