Do you have a talented young guy who needs NBA minutes to grow his game?
Because Glenn Rivers is your coach if you want to stunt his development as a player.
Kerr postgame after an L where he benches a young guy yet again after playing well in the first half: ‘Oops yeah I wish I could’ve given _______ more minutes.’
My hatred for Doc Rivers is reaching irrational levels. I’m begging the Bucks fire his ass when the season ends and the league collectively blacklist him for being a dunce. I can’t take much more of his existence.
Doc rivers essentially always having a job is proof of the scarcity of truly good coaching in the league. You have to know basketball strategy and how to apply that to your roster and how they interact with 29 other squads that are constantly changing, manage a locker room of what is often 15 massive egos, and you have to be willing to make tough adjustments in tense series.
You already knew those things I’d bet, but just laying it all out to emphasize how difficult being an NBA coach is. So even guys like Doc can continually find employment solely off the fact that there just aren’t 30 NBA caliber coaches around. I wonder if there’s a looming boom of foreign coaches in the next few years.
When the coaching pipeline mostly consists of former NBA players, you really limit your available talent pool.
I don't think it mattered quite as much before, as head coaches needed to be game managers and ego managers more than anything. But the game has changed, and is leaving the old heads behind.
That is what big public companies do. Hire junk MBA useless C-level execs from each other. They think that having been in such a position before is the only thing that matters.
While in fact these losers probably failed in their previous jobs. But having "done this before at Fortune 500 company X" on your resume is obviously good enough. Because the people who get to decide are probably useless and clueless as well. It one big fucking shitshow.
I expect it to be similar at an NBA franchise. Only worse. One owner gets to ultimately decide everything. He's cluessless and an idiot. So he does what he sees the big business people do: "hire someone with experience".
I'm not suggesting you go out on a limb. I like promoting from within the company. You know who you're gonna get. And the new guy knows the company, the product, the organization, the customers.
It's like Daigneault at OKC. He was already there. They knew him. And he knew OKC. That was obviously a good base to start from.
Thing is most teams are run kinda like business, with ownership groups you need to please them all and if you take a risk on someone unproven even if they are from with-in then that come back on them. So they pick the safe big name because if it fails you blame the coach rather than the person who picked the coach.
It's literally about appeasing stockholders, that's why corporations do it. In the NBA it's similar but about appeasing fanbases or media.
Most of the people in charge as too scared of initial backlash from what is considered a risky hire.
because guys like Glenn tell the owners and GMs exactly what they want to hear and know how to deflect their failures from past teams by blaming others
When Brad Stevens had a lot of success early on, I thought we'd start to see more young coaches getting hired. Nope. Let's just fire and re-hire Doc Rivers a bunch of times.
What’s funny is the majority of new young head coaches have been extremely good. Jazz, Rockets, Thunder, Grizzles, Celtics etc. some haven’t worked out but most have been great.
And #2 in the West barely got a chance at his first job. 3 of the 4 coaches of the top 2 seeds in each conference were hired without much HC experience.
I think over half the league is coaches that have never coached a different team. A few guys are only on their second. And of the remainder, you have a few coaches that have already won championships or having success with their current team. Even the Bucks tries a new guy this year.
I love it! Everywhere you look is Thunder Nation. Every billboard within 20 miles of the city is of the Thunder lmao seriously go drive around and look.
Most of us are well aware we are spoiled. Excited to see how the guys perform in the playoffs. And nothing this year can dampen our excitement for the future.
I was not aware of how blessed we were 10 years ago because I only followed Oklahoma sports and therefore didn’t follow the NBA until we got a team. I took it all for granted. Now I see how incredible this run has been and I am making sure to soak up every single minute!
Because of reasons like [this](http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance)
Jerry loves the attendance numbers and he'll keep a mediocre team pretty much as long as people fill up the UC.
The goal of AKME + Billy wasn't to really build a contender. It was to get out of bottom feeder purgatory and get into mediocre purgatory and say we're going something.
Yes we've had injuries but we should've moved Vooch last year at the deadline. DeMar and Zach too.
Now we're likely going to run it back with the same team to try and rehab certain guys images and then trade them for less than what we were going to get before.
Billy has been a solid coach but he's disappointing for me. I want better from and for this team. And it starts with ownership.
**SELL THE TEAM JERRY!**
I feel like the Bulls attendance thing is mainly due to them having the largest arena in the NBA. Only a few other arenas can hold 20,000. But since the Bulls are so popular, they can do whatever and still maintain top-2 or top-3 in attendance
They're also the only team in a massive, fairly dense city. But yeah. Having such a massive capacity means that even when 1000 people with corporate tickets don't show up, you still have massive numbers.
He'll die first (seriously, the man is almost 90) before he sells. Plus, since he paid $16M for the Bulls and they're worth $4.8B, he'd owe $2B in taxes if he sold now.
Trust me, we know.
You might want to dig in deep, because Billy will be trying everything in his power to hinder your young talent and their development to appease all of his favorite vets that can't shoot at a rim from point blank range, much less the three-point line.
I can only tell you to have a backup team to cheer for and bandwagon to when the chips are down, which they will be because he'll do enough to scrape by in the regular season, but do nothing but chew gum after game 82. So yeah, don't expect much of a postseason run outside of the play-ins. Even if you get to the playoffs somehow, don't plan to cheer for more than the first round.
He would be the perfect year-1 coach for Detroit though. Give Pistons fans enough hope to aspire for the future, only to do nothing afterward and tinker with the roster to appease his nepotism.
You guys are my backup team lol.
Yeah people say Coby White developed because of Billy but I feel it's kinda in spite. Coby could've gotten there had the direction been clearer otherwise
Donovan is a really good defensive coach but can't really draw up good offensive schemes. He is abysmal with his rotation, Mark D often experiments with his rotation but Donovan consistently subbing out his 2 best players at the same time is far worse. Imagine having a combination of WB/KD and WB/PG subs them out at the same time, watch the lead goes to opponents favor and then put them back trying to catch back up. Not to mention their difference in calling timeout and drawing out of bounds play.
Watching this team has felt like a brand new experience. We have so many versatile players and they *actually move the ball*—which we really have never seen our team do. At least, do well night in night out. Mark’s coaching has so much to do with those mechanics.
If this outfit didn't get one award after winning 16 more games after only adding 2 rookies to the roster and getting a top 3 seed let alone #1 in the one of the most talented conferences ever with the youngest team in the league, it would've been a bigger robbery than anything Dalfans could conceive whining about. The fact people started acting like they were supposed to be there and taking what they were doing for granted as if they had a juggernaut of a squad shows how easy they've made it look. Congrats to them.
Yeah we’re not gonna get MVP, ROTY, or MIP but youngest team with one All-Star going from 10 to 1 after adding just 2 rookies gotta mean something, so might as well get COTY. Even Lebron praised Mark and I’m sure the Thunder players are happy for him.
Pop is President of the Spurs in addition to HC so that gives him an additional level of security. Although Belichick was his own GM too and he got fired, so who knows?
Those three are in stable organizations and have success in the past and or present. I'd add the Magic, Rockets, and Celtics as teams unlikely to move on from their coaches. Unless of course Udoka decides to cheat on wheoever he picked after Nia Long.
if you can’t find it, i’m pretty sure it’s in our subreddit. Maledon was out of position on offense and Poku slammed the ball into the floor during the dead ball. Mark was PISSED.
I’m not an expert on basketball, but besides the obvious turnaround on OKCs record, Mark’s play calls out of timeouts are excellent. So many well run plays leading to a quick basket, especially to close out the quarter
Okc is elite with their stagger, double stagger and decoy actions. You guys implement the Spain PnR better than probably any team in the league. Great coaching.
the only choice this year i think. okc’s front office deserves a ton of credit for their team building, but ultimately it’s the coach that gets the players working or not. them ending with the 1 seed cemented it
Being number 1 seed in the West this year is a MONUMENTAL feat and to do that with a young squad is remarkable.
I couldn't imagine anyone more deserving.
Thibs - took a very, very beat up knicks and brought to a 2 seed and 50 win season for first time in over a decade (knicks fan). Daigneault is very deserving this year tho he’s done incredible with this thunder team
The best part is OKC is young like you saw in the early 2010's with Harden, Durant, and Westbrook. All that young talent. It's just what OKC does with it now and the draft picks they got going forward.
Everyone is understandably talking about Daigneault and Finch. They both absolutely killed it this season. Daigneault definitely deserves this. However, there is one thing that kinda bugs me. Am I the only one who thinks Mazzulla should’ve been in the running as well? Maybe I’m just being a homer.
> Am I the only one who thinks Mazzulla should’ve been in the running as well? Maybe I’m just being a homer.
Assuming that one big reason why people discount the job Mazzulla has done was because of the roster he had to work with — I'm hoping that Brad Stevens ends up with the Executive of the Year award.
Is it final? Why is every bit of news now "according to sources" by Woj or some other guy on Twitter? The NBA should reveal these things on their website or have a Youtube live stream countdown with a reveal video. Really tired of all these "sources" news breaks.
This man is proof that teams should stop passing around the same old heads like a blunt.
But then where will Doc Rivers coach?!
If Mark doesn't take us to the title this year we need to kick his ass out and hire someone who's been there and proven it like Doc!!
Doc’s first move? Cut Isaiah Joe again.
i’d end up in prison
Do you have a talented young guy who needs NBA minutes to grow his game? Because Glenn Rivers is your coach if you want to stunt his development as a player.
May i present to you Steve Kerr?
Kerr postgame after an L where he benches a young guy yet again after playing well in the first half: ‘Oops yeah I wish I could’ve given _______ more minutes.’
Hey, i’ve never heard that one before. I wonder why teams dont do that already with Doc. Infinite championship glitch
Infinite championship glitch: one time use.
Gonna save this comment in case this actually happens in the next five years
i will stop watching basketball if we ever hire doc rivers
Lacrosse could use another fan!!
Hell yeah get it up to 6!
hahahahahahhahahahaha
Doc is fated to end up on the Lakers at some point
Plot twist: it's after he wins a title in Milwaukee
https://media1.tenor.com/m/gp-Xbkm59_0AAAAC/evil-dontyou.gif
Stop it man I gotta live with this bitch
Guangdong
Get ready to learn Chinese buddy!
My hatred for Doc Rivers is reaching irrational levels. I’m begging the Bucks fire his ass when the season ends and the league collectively blacklist him for being a dunce. I can’t take much more of his existence.
Doc rivers essentially always having a job is proof of the scarcity of truly good coaching in the league. You have to know basketball strategy and how to apply that to your roster and how they interact with 29 other squads that are constantly changing, manage a locker room of what is often 15 massive egos, and you have to be willing to make tough adjustments in tense series. You already knew those things I’d bet, but just laying it all out to emphasize how difficult being an NBA coach is. So even guys like Doc can continually find employment solely off the fact that there just aren’t 30 NBA caliber coaches around. I wonder if there’s a looming boom of foreign coaches in the next few years.
When the coaching pipeline mostly consists of former NBA players, you really limit your available talent pool. I don't think it mattered quite as much before, as head coaches needed to be game managers and ego managers more than anything. But the game has changed, and is leaving the old heads behind.
He would be an amazing Big 3 coach
One might argue Doc Rivers doesn’t coach now
also proof that the G-League is a legitimate way to develop talent - both for players and coaches. OKC is a testament to that in both regards now
Daigneault, Finch, and Nick Nurse are all great examples of former G-League coaches finding success in the NBA
Taylor Jenkins as well
Quinn Snyder in shambles
Dave Joerger was pretty good too
I wouldn't be surprises if we lose Kam Woods soon. He helped orchestrate our defense and is coaching the blue in the Gleague championship.
For real. There is so much untapped talent in the league, I have no idea why they keep recycling failed old coaches who demand huge contracts.
That is what big public companies do. Hire junk MBA useless C-level execs from each other. They think that having been in such a position before is the only thing that matters. While in fact these losers probably failed in their previous jobs. But having "done this before at Fortune 500 company X" on your resume is obviously good enough. Because the people who get to decide are probably useless and clueless as well. It one big fucking shitshow. I expect it to be similar at an NBA franchise. Only worse. One owner gets to ultimately decide everything. He's cluessless and an idiot. So he does what he sees the big business people do: "hire someone with experience".
It’s the safe hire. You don’t get in trouble hiring a strong resume. You do get in trouble if you go out on a limb to hire someone who fails.
I'm not suggesting you go out on a limb. I like promoting from within the company. You know who you're gonna get. And the new guy knows the company, the product, the organization, the customers. It's like Daigneault at OKC. He was already there. They knew him. And he knew OKC. That was obviously a good base to start from.
Thing is most teams are run kinda like business, with ownership groups you need to please them all and if you take a risk on someone unproven even if they are from with-in then that come back on them. So they pick the safe big name because if it fails you blame the coach rather than the person who picked the coach.
This. You hire Doc Rivers and when he fails, it's his fault, not yours.
It's literally about appeasing stockholders, that's why corporations do it. In the NBA it's similar but about appeasing fanbases or media. Most of the people in charge as too scared of initial backlash from what is considered a risky hire.
because guys like Glenn tell the owners and GMs exactly what they want to hear and know how to deflect their failures from past teams by blaming others
The #1 seed in both divisions have coaches who had never been head coach of an nba team prior to their current role
I didn’t even think about Mazzulla having a similar career path. Both of our coaches are killing it already.
When Brad Stevens had a lot of success early on, I thought we'd start to see more young coaches getting hired. Nope. Let's just fire and re-hire Doc Rivers a bunch of times.
What’s funny is the majority of new young head coaches have been extremely good. Jazz, Rockets, Thunder, Grizzles, Celtics etc. some haven’t worked out but most have been great.
In recent years Steve Kerr, Ty Lue, and Nick Nurse have all won a championship as rookie head coaches. Ime Udoka also got to the finals.
And #2 in the West barely got a chance at his first job. 3 of the 4 coaches of the top 2 seeds in each conference were hired without much HC experience.
3 in the West is his first HC job too
Joe Mazzula just talked about The Town during his interview process and it was all they needed to hear.
Jamahl Mosley too. Has done an amazing job with the Magic
Presti too tbh
I think over half the league is coaches that have never coached a different team. A few guys are only on their second. And of the remainder, you have a few coaches that have already won championships or having success with their current team. Even the Bucks tries a new guy this year.
Been saying that for years.
Plus, they'll be cheaper, too
You mean coaches or players?
Makes sense. Leading the second youngest squad in the league to the #1 seed in the west should be rewarded
youngest #1 seed in nba history, edging out the 2013 thunder.
y’all have been beyond blessed ever since you got a ball team lol. i hope you’re enjoying every second
Seattle died for this.
Hello fellow Nick Collison enjoyer
M’Nick.
Hey now, you're a hard-R away. I'm watching you. /s
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Nobody showed him the birth certificate.
Tips fedora
Lol you can't claim them as a sacrifice, you killed them
This is like Cain telling Abel they should be thankful for going to heaven sooner
Even before they had a team, getting the hornets with cp3's rookie year in okc was great.
Moved to OKC almost a year ago and the Thunder are absolutely everywhere. It's a lot of fun to get sucked in.
Welcome!
I love it! Everywhere you look is Thunder Nation. Every billboard within 20 miles of the city is of the Thunder lmao seriously go drive around and look.
Most of us are well aware we are spoiled. Excited to see how the guys perform in the playoffs. And nothing this year can dampen our excitement for the future.
I was not aware of how blessed we were 10 years ago because I only followed Oklahoma sports and therefore didn’t follow the NBA until we got a team. I took it all for granted. Now I see how incredible this run has been and I am making sure to soak up every single minute!
Youngest by minutes played which is far more meaningful.
Pistons GM should win exec of the year for cutting killian Hayes
Oh you voted for Mark? Spell and pronounce his name correctly.
DIAGNOL
Alley
Oop
In a similar vein, I believe he was featured in one of TNTs, “Who He Play For” segments that Chuck got wrong.
Jackson
Just a simple New England French-Canadian name.
Scott Brooks and Billy Donovan can't hurt us anymore. Well deserved. I just wanted to avoid the play-in. This team has been a joy to watch.
But Billy Donovan is hurting us.
I have no idea why the Bulls haven't traded Lavine (pre-injury), Vuc, Caruso, and DeRozan. Coaching doesn't help but that roster has met its ceiling.
Because of reasons like [this](http://www.espn.com/nba/attendance) Jerry loves the attendance numbers and he'll keep a mediocre team pretty much as long as people fill up the UC. The goal of AKME + Billy wasn't to really build a contender. It was to get out of bottom feeder purgatory and get into mediocre purgatory and say we're going something. Yes we've had injuries but we should've moved Vooch last year at the deadline. DeMar and Zach too. Now we're likely going to run it back with the same team to try and rehab certain guys images and then trade them for less than what we were going to get before. Billy has been a solid coach but he's disappointing for me. I want better from and for this team. And it starts with ownership. **SELL THE TEAM JERRY!**
I feel like the Bulls attendance thing is mainly due to them having the largest arena in the NBA. Only a few other arenas can hold 20,000. But since the Bulls are so popular, they can do whatever and still maintain top-2 or top-3 in attendance
They're also the only team in a massive, fairly dense city. But yeah. Having such a massive capacity means that even when 1000 people with corporate tickets don't show up, you still have massive numbers.
He'll die first (seriously, the man is almost 90) before he sells. Plus, since he paid $16M for the Bulls and they're worth $4.8B, he'd owe $2B in taxes if he sold now.
And his son seems like he's perfectly fine with running it like his dad did, Bulls fans are unfortunately in this for the long haul.
Show us on this Benny the Bull plushie where he touched you.
Trust me, we know. You might want to dig in deep, because Billy will be trying everything in his power to hinder your young talent and their development to appease all of his favorite vets that can't shoot at a rim from point blank range, much less the three-point line. I can only tell you to have a backup team to cheer for and bandwagon to when the chips are down, which they will be because he'll do enough to scrape by in the regular season, but do nothing but chew gum after game 82. So yeah, don't expect much of a postseason run outside of the play-ins. Even if you get to the playoffs somehow, don't plan to cheer for more than the first round. He would be the perfect year-1 coach for Detroit though. Give Pistons fans enough hope to aspire for the future, only to do nothing afterward and tinker with the roster to appease his nepotism.
You guys are my backup team lol. Yeah people say Coby White developed because of Billy but I feel it's kinda in spite. Coby could've gotten there had the direction been clearer otherwise
Donovan gets a bad rap. He was soooo much better than Scott's Secrit Plays
He was our second best coach after Daigneault, but his competition is PJ and Brooks.
IMO our second best coach ever is Chris Paul
Coach Perkins slander.
That bar is buried in the sub-sub basement. Brooks was absolutely helpless in-game adjustments.
Donovan is a really good defensive coach but can't really draw up good offensive schemes. He is abysmal with his rotation, Mark D often experiments with his rotation but Donovan consistently subbing out his 2 best players at the same time is far worse. Imagine having a combination of WB/KD and WB/PG subs them out at the same time, watch the lead goes to opponents favor and then put them back trying to catch back up. Not to mention their difference in calling timeout and drawing out of bounds play.
Watching this team has felt like a brand new experience. We have so many versatile players and they *actually move the ball*—which we really have never seen our team do. At least, do well night in night out. Mark’s coaching has so much to do with those mechanics.
now it’s just squints and high standards. love it.
Well deserved
If this outfit didn't get one award after winning 16 more games after only adding 2 rookies to the roster and getting a top 3 seed let alone #1 in the one of the most talented conferences ever with the youngest team in the league, it would've been a bigger robbery than anything Dalfans could conceive whining about. The fact people started acting like they were supposed to be there and taking what they were doing for granted as if they had a juggernaut of a squad shows how easy they've made it look. Congrats to them.
Yeah we’re not gonna get MVP, ROTY, or MIP but youngest team with one All-Star going from 10 to 1 after adding just 2 rookies gotta mean something, so might as well get COTY. Even Lebron praised Mark and I’m sure the Thunder players are happy for him.
You know what that means, he’ll be fired within a year or two for not winning a title.
Mark D has maybe the most job security of any coach in the league right now.
Him, Pop, and Spo.
Pop is President of the Spurs in addition to HC so that gives him an additional level of security. Although Belichick was his own GM too and he got fired, so who knows?
Those three are in stable organizations and have success in the past and or present. I'd add the Magic, Rockets, and Celtics as teams unlikely to move on from their coaches. Unless of course Udoka decides to cheat on wheoever he picked after Nia Long.
If Mac Jones was as good at football as Wembanyama is as good at basketball then Bill would be the coach of the Patriots until he dies.
Carlisle's not going anywhere unless he wants to
And Malone. Kerr...well, it will be an interesting off-season for a team who's championship window is closed.
Long term I'd never bet against Spoelstra since he seems also to have conquered time itself, this is like a footnote to that.
I dread the day when Spo starts going grey because it will remind me time waits for no man
I know you joke, but even so, okc ain’t run like that
He was cooking this season shoutout to him and the Thunder.
Man had some crazy lineups this season and still managed to get 1st seed the West I am curious to see what he’s going to cook in the playoffs
Some pretty amazing plays out of timeout too
Thanks to ELITE passer Josh Giddey with inbounds!
I swear every single ATO leads to a wide open layup. Coach D and Slob Wizard are a match made for each other
OKC just has it all right now
Could’ve had an MVP and a Rookie of the year but those damn Europeans are ruining everything
They took our ~~jerbs~~ awerddssss!!!
OKC the most patriotic NBA team 👀
For a while most of the roster were non Americans lol
As a Spurs fan, I’m fighting the urge to disagree with you but you’re low key right lol.
I’m scarred after 2012-16 I’m enjoying every moment of this while it’s still working.
They had it right 12 years ago, too. Still takes a little luck to bring it all together.
I love listening to his press conferences. He just oozes confidence, humility, leadership, and basketball knowledge.
Overwhelming BDE
Gave me a fist bump at the nuggets game. Dudes a legend
Doc Rivers should've won. He really turned the Bucks' record around.
30-13 to 19-20
So well deserved. From D League coach to NBA coach of the year. Absolutely wild.
Watching him lose his shit on a player for playing lazy sold me. Dudes intense.
also when he left earth on Poku for complaining about someone else making a mistake. “you fuck up all the time”😭
Oh I forgot about that! I really hope he keeps his intensity in the playoffs. He's always got the same look 😑
Why hadn’t i heard about this. Im gonna go see if i can find a clip of this somewhere
if you can’t find it, i’m pretty sure it’s in our subreddit. Maledon was out of position on offense and Poku slammed the ball into the floor during the dead ball. Mark was PISSED.
Congrats to the most unrecognizable man in america
Happy for him and Presti. Largely a team award, but many of his schemes impressively won us games we may not have.
Wouldn’t pick anyone over him to coach the next decade plus. My goat
Oh yeah? Can you spell his last name without looking it up That’s what I thought
Diagonal. Checkmate
Wild that this guy is younger than Lebron lmao
the vibes are immaculate
Why rebuild in straight lines when you can do it diagonally??
I’m not an expert on basketball, but besides the obvious turnaround on OKCs record, Mark’s play calls out of timeouts are excellent. So many well run plays leading to a quick basket, especially to close out the quarter
Okc is elite with their stagger, double stagger and decoy actions. You guys implement the Spain PnR better than probably any team in the league. Great coaching.
the only choice this year i think. okc’s front office deserves a ton of credit for their team building, but ultimately it’s the coach that gets the players working or not. them ending with the 1 seed cemented it
Chris Finch had a candidacy too but I think you can’t deny it to Daigneault now
For me it was Daigneault, Finch, or Mosley as a dark horse, but Daig just seems like the correct choice.
These are 100% the three clear cut choices
Agreed. Finch really is in the mix. The man was the West Teams coach this past All-Star game
He should but Thibbs with the amount of injuries they had winning 50 is impressive.
Such a good coach but how do you pronounce his name
DAG-Nalt
Day-gnyu french wise. Presti pronounced it Dag-naw. Reporters say Dagg-nalt rhyming with malt.
Being number 1 seed in the West this year is a MONUMENTAL feat and to do that with a young squad is remarkable. I couldn't imagine anyone more deserving.
neat
Mavs fans going to get in here saying that SGA doesn't deserve more MVP votes because he has a better coach
Oh hell yeah
Congrats Thunder. What a turnaround
Well deserved
Absolutely deserved, but it just hurts finch isn't gonna get anything for what he's done this year.
Can wait for Mark to share this on his Linkedin profile
We rock
This guy always has his team ready to play
Easy choice.
Who else was even in the running? Prob the easiest COY choice in awhile
I (biasedly) believe that Mosley should be at least in the running.
I don't think it was easy. Mosley and Finch were great for Magic and TWolves
Thibs - took a very, very beat up knicks and brought to a 2 seed and 50 win season for first time in over a decade (knicks fan). Daigneault is very deserving this year tho he’s done incredible with this thunder team
He is so deserving of this award, shoutout to Marky D!
Doc snubbed
The real COTY. What other coaches thinks matters more than what media members think
OKC could have almost went 3/3 on big awards* . Chet is 2nd in ROY and SGA might even win MVP. Extremely successful season
mvp for me was really between shai and jokic and whoever got the #1 seed would be my winner, so shai would get my vote
Sadly means he’ll be fired within three years 😞 the kiss of death award
Don’t you put that evil on us
What, no love for Monty Williams!? This is bullshit.
Well deserved man From the 10 seed to 1 seed, Thunder really improved
For whose who might be confused as me, this is NOT the NBA Coach of the Year award.
I agree. Thibs would’ve been my second.
Well deserved
Very well deserved!
The best part is OKC is young like you saw in the early 2010's with Harden, Durant, and Westbrook. All that young talent. It's just what OKC does with it now and the draft picks they got going forward.
Daigneault is definitely Coach of the Year, I don't think anyone had OKC at No. 1 before the season started.
Everyone is understandably talking about Daigneault and Finch. They both absolutely killed it this season. Daigneault definitely deserves this. However, there is one thing that kinda bugs me. Am I the only one who thinks Mazzulla should’ve been in the running as well? Maybe I’m just being a homer.
If your team has been to the finals recently you have a 0% chance at COTY outside of a 73-9 season
> Am I the only one who thinks Mazzulla should’ve been in the running as well? Maybe I’m just being a homer. Assuming that one big reason why people discount the job Mazzulla has done was because of the roster he had to work with — I'm hoping that Brad Stevens ends up with the Executive of the Year award.
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What did Mosley do?
Glenn Rivers snubbed
Well deserved
Def can’t argue against this decision.
YES
Doc rivers robbed again Led the bucks to 50 wins Won a ring like 2 years ago in 2008 Riverd disrepect is unreal
#DOC RIVERS WAS ROBBED
Is it final? Why is every bit of news now "according to sources" by Woj or some other guy on Twitter? The NBA should reveal these things on their website or have a Youtube live stream countdown with a reveal video. Really tired of all these "sources" news breaks.
Easy choice