Rumour now official: Terry Porter fired

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  1. Karl Malone's Elbows

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    Re: Rumour: Terry Porter fired

    hahahaha. Phoenix fans = dumb.
     
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    Re: Rumour: Terry Porter fired

    You can keep laughing but the source on the Suns' realgm forum is legit. He broke the Shaq trade and the Richardson trade a week before anyone else.
     
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    Re: TP Fired

    Yeah good choice. Just a bad head coach.
     
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    Re: TP Fired

    He was doomed to failure. That franchise has screwed itself over 12 ways to Tuesday in the last four years or so.

    Good for the rest of the NBA, bad for TP.

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    Re: TP Fired

    I feel sorry for him, it's hard to say how much of his decisions of how to use the roster was forced by Kerr. If it was all Porter's own choices, he's not a good head coach, IMO.
     
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    I would be great to add him as an assistant on the bench. It's a great coaching move and a great PR move.
     
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    Re: Rumour: Terry Porter fired

    Looks like I was right...
     
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    Re: Rumour: Terry Porter fired

    Ooops. I didn't mean to crap on your thread with a new one. Looks like we crossed in the mail.
     
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    Re: TP Fired

    Nate has already turned down some of his old staff because he doesn't have space on the current staff and doesn't want to let anyone go. I can't see Porter getting hired here.
     
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    Me, neither. Midseason adjustments to coaching staffs isn't usually the best thing for a team that's going to get into the playoffs.

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    Re: Rumour: Terry Porter fired

    No worries. Your thread could have stayed as far as I'm concerned. I was just giving myself some props! :lol:
     
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    This is still a rumor, not official. It won't be official until Monday when the NBA allows the Suns to fire him.
     

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