Suns president of basketball operations Lon Babby began work on the team's search for a new general manager this week.

Babby insists that Phoenix isn't in a rush to fill the position and Thursday night he denied a report by Yahoo! Sports that Cavaliers assistant general manager Lance Blanks was the front-runner for the position.

"It's not a horse race," Babby said. "There are no frontrunners. We're going to have a thorough and systematic process, and it'll be at the end of that process that we'll move to evaluations.

"I've committed to myself and the candidates that I wouldn't move forward to a decision until I've completed the interviews. Therefore, there can't be a frontrunner."

Blanks has been Cleveland's assistant general manager for five years.

"The job hasn't been offered to anybody," Babby said. "The process has just begun this week. To this point, nobody has expressed any concern about the structure of the front office."