In the modern age of social media, everybody has an opinion on everything. When big news breaks, your feed gets filled with takes on each side of the fence. Even the most outlandish opinion can be found somewhere on the internet.
There is nothing this applies to more than sports. Everybody knows what is best for their team and if the GM of their favorite team doesn’t do whatever they want them to do (no matter how realistic it is), they suck at their job and their team is going to be bad.
When a big trade breaks, like the Detroit Pistons trading Jerami Grant to the Portland Trail Blazers yesterday, it becomes an indictment on the skills of a GM even if that singular move is just the first of several dominos about to fall.