Seems like we just hired him. It was less than two years ago! 18 teams will have more recently hired head coaches than us. Jacque Vaugn is the 11th longest tenured being hired 10 days prior to Stotts. Monty Williams is 5th being hired way way back long ago in..... 2010? I remember him being the up and coming assistant here with LaMarcus, Nic, and especially young players such as Travis Outlaw. The current culture of the NBA is nuts.
Gosh I just realized even more amazing, Jeff Hornacek, coming off his first year of coaching, is right behind Stotts as the 13th longest tenured coach.
The four coaches still in the playoffs are longest tenured Pop, 2nd (Spolstra), 4th (Brooks), and 7th (Vogel). Maybe all these garbage teams should stop firing their coach!
Coaching isn't a good gig in the NBA. Only get a couple years to preform with a roster than may not fit your philosophy.
Yeah, but most of these guys sign longer term, guaranteed contracts for 3, 4 or 5 years. So, they continue to get paid after they are fired. And, many of them get other gigs, usually in broadcasting, or as an NBA assistant coach or college head coach, as a result of their experience as an NBA head coach. When you're an NBA head coach, you gain credibility and name recognition that can be parlayed into other opportunities. So, they can end up drawing two very nice paychecks concurrently. And then there is the coaching treadmill where NBA teams tend to recycle the same guys over and over. Once you're an NBA head coach, you become part of fraternity with a lifelong membership. So, it's not really that bad a gig, IMHO. BNM
Money wise it's a great job. But as a HC... no one blames the players at the end of the day. Hard job.
I didn't say it was easy. I was responding to this: "Coaching isn't a good gig in the NBA." The Cavs gave Mike Brown a 4-year deal and then fired him after one season. Sounds like a pretty sweet gig to me. Yeah, sucks to get fired, but he'll have millions of dollars to dry his tears. Name one other industry where you fail at your job, get fired and still get paid millions of dollars for years after you're let go. I'd take that gig anytime. BNM
Yeah, that's the kind of job my dad would have called, "good work, if you can get it - millions of dollars and no heavy lifting". BNM
Stotts is now the 9th longest tenured coach with Tibbs, Casey and Wittman's job status all up in the air. Gregg Popovich 12/10/1996 Erik Spoelstra 4/28/2008 Rick Carlisle 5/9/2008 Tom Thibodeau 6/23/2010 Frank Vogel 1/30/2011 Kevin McHale 6/1/2011 Dwane Casey 6/21/2011 Randy Wittman 1/24/2012 Terry Stotts 8/7/2012 Monty was 4th between Carlise and Thibodeau.
Looking at some of the head coaches other teams have had to settle with makes me very much not interested in the slightest about firing Stotts. McHale, Steve Clifford, Brett Brown, Flip Saunders, Quin Snyder, Derek Fisher, David Blatt, Bryon Scott, James Borrego and Melvin Hunt are all current NBA head coaches. Exponentially more likely we end up with one of them than the next Budenholzer. Wikipedia NBA head coaches
Wall Street execs or CEOs from huge corporations can fail and walk away with much, much more pretty often
You are right. I was wrong. You are correct-o. I stand corrected. But like John Wayne, I never apologize. Nevah!! It's typical. For years, Sloan had a big lead, too.
