Nearly every fellow scribe I run into here in Las Vegas greets me with the same look of puzzlement and same line:
"What the hell is he doing?"
I know it's been debated here at length whether unorthodox Wolves hire David Kahn is mad scientist or simply mad.
You look at the moves he has made here just these last two days and you can choose one of two schools of thought over his acquisition of Michael Beasley and trade of $42 million man Al Jefferson:
Either he was hired by Glen Taylor and Rob Moor in May 2009 as a cost-cutting beancounter whose main job was to slash payroll and either make the team less of a money loser and perhaps a candidate for sale somewhere down the road.
Or...
He's a salary-cap savant aiming at making a ginormous splash and on the verge sometime in the next year of putting the team on the fast track to respectability.
After dealing away Jefferson and his huge contract, the Wolves' oldest player is Ryan Hollins (25) and their highest-paid player is Beasley (just a hair under $5 million).
