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...their designer suits and million-dollar salaries, most coaches have less power than many fans realize. "It's often said that the NBA is a players' league," notes Van Gundy, who was fired in 2007 after a relatively long run of four years as coach of the Rockets. "What's left unsaid is that it's also a league about the guys who pick the players, the general managers." Not only do they make most of the big player decisions on trades and free-agent signings, but they also get a lot more face time with the people who sign...
...Coaches, of course, have always been convenient scapegoats for a team's failure to perform, especially as player salaries have skyrocketed. But many observers believe this most recent trend of quick triggers has reached laughable levels. "Head coaches may be hearing all this talk about how 'we're all in this together,'" says Jeff Van Gundy, former coach of the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets and now an ABC/ESPN analyst. "In reality, not really. Unless your name is [nine-time title winner] Phil Jackson, [four-time title winner] Gregg Popovich, [21-year Utah Jazz coach] Jerry Sloan...
...root, this year's coaching turnover is an indictment of poor management decisions and unrealistic expectations. If these owners didn't make bad hires in the first place, there'd be no fans daring them to clean house. Sacramento hired the former NBA player Theus, for example, before the 2007-08 season based on just his two strong years of college coaching at New Mexico State - not exactly an NCAA powerhouse. Carlesimo, once a successful college coach at Seton Hall University, had never meshed with pro players: in the 1990s, he failed in both Portland and Golden State, where...
Danger-seeking was so popular that somehow pirates came back. Someone gave Don Imus a radio job. When investment banks crumbled, we decided to hand over $700 billion to Henry Paulson, who used to run an investment bank. It was the kind of year when a famous football player could think, Sure, I've drunk a lot and have a loaded gun in my pants, but the music in this club makes me want to put my hands in my pockets and dance...
...sushi, pasta, meat, and desert stations by themselves this year, eliminating the need for waitstaff to pass around bite-sized food. ”Hip Treatment”—the band usually invited to perform at the holiday party—was also cut.Its replacement? A CD player.“I feel that we’re having a very modest party,” said Diane M. Long, executive assistant to the dean for administration. “I’m hoping that the party is as festive as it has been in the past...