A great take on the state of the NBA owners and their coaches who, in some cases, were foolishly and prematurely let go…
- In just two years, Lionel Hollins turned a 24-48, butt-of-every-joke-in-the-NBA team, the Memphis Grizzlies, into a playoff squad, and five years after inheriting the job, his team reached the Western Conference Finals. But last week, Grizzlies’ management announced that Hollins would not remain as head coach of the team he so drastically turned around, notching the Grizzlies’ best-ever record in his final year.
- In his nine seasons as head coach, George Karl led the Denver Nuggets to a playoff appearance in each one, reaching the Western Conference Finals in 2009. A 17-65 team just two years earlier, his teams ran off this unprecedented list of playoff appearances. Last week, Karl, the 2013 NBA Coach of the Year was fired from his position with the Nuggets, a decision he later called “stupid.”
- Inheriting a team that had reached the playoffs just four times in the previous 33 years, ex-Clippers’ chief Vinny Del Negro…
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