Wayne Embry
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Sep 17, 2026
Seth LevitHOST
And then if you take that away, then I'm just very excited about this rookie linebacker that the Dolphins have.
Seth LevitHOST
But I think you can't, you know, I might have told this story here, but I remember when I was with the Cavs and Wayne Embry was the general manager and Gary Fitzsimmons was the director of player personnel.
Seth LevitHOST
And they were telling me Danny Ferry was still on the
Sevach MeltonPANELIST
Cavs roster at that point in time.
George BalamacySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Their star center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, has a disabling injury, and no one in the league is about to help the Bucks out.
George BalamacySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
General Manager Wayne Embry says, even when you're healthy, people don't want to trade with you and help you.
George BalamacySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now people feel that with Kareem out, it's to their advantage.
George BalamacySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Abdul-Jabbar was hospitalized on Monday and team officials are more concerned over his eye injury than the broken bone in his right hand.
Will LouHOST
A year later, after the Raptors only won 34 games, um, Bryan Colangelo was finally let go.
Will LouHOST
There's a brief interim period where Wayne Embry ran the team.
Will LouHOST
Uh, and then-
Alex WongHOST
[laughs] I don't remember that man.
Alex WongHOST
[laughs]
Will LouHOST
You don't remember Wayne Embry running the team for, like, a tiny bit?
Alex WongHOST
[laughs] Embry's like, "Who, me?" [laughs] Like, Embry's like, "Is Bob Lanier available?" [laughs]
Will LouHOST
He probably was trying to trade for Bob Lanier, actually.
Carson BreberHOST
Jack Twyman, not the player he was at his peak, but a really good scoring forward.
Carson BreberHOST
Wayne Embry, a very offensively talented center, and then Oscar, one of the best scorers and the best playmaker in the league.
Carson BreberHOST
I have the 67 76ers down here.
Carson BreberHOST
They were the best relative offense of the 60s and also the number one playoff offense that year.
Mark PriceHOST
really to be the starter.
Mark PriceHOST
But Lenny Wilkins and Wayne Embry allowed me to win that spot.
Mark PriceHOST
And I became the starter and kind of was just clicking with the team, with Brad, Ron Harper, all those guys.
Mark PriceHOST
And so they felt like that one position that we needed to get us to the next level was was Larry Nance.
Mark PriceHOST
And that's just the way life works in the NBA.
Mark PriceHOST
A team picks a lottery pick.
Mark PriceHOST
And so when I say I give Lenny Wilkins and Wayne Embry a lot of credit because they went against the grain in allowing me to compete for that spot.
Mark PriceHOST
And that was a big deal.
Seth LevittHOST
And I worked for Mike Fratello and under Jimmy Johnson.
Seth LevittHOST
And I got to sit in meetings with Wayne Embry and get to sit in meetings with Eddie Jones and Brian Weidmeier and work with these credentialed members of the media and help in the production meeting when NBC or CBS came into town.
Seth LevittHOST
And so I had all of that experience, not to mention the people that I had met along the way.
Seth LevittHOST
I do think that if you compare that to a degree, you have to give some credit to it.