Upon coming out of 6 hours of straight Call of Duty 4 Team Deathmatch fun, I checked out ESPN only to find out that Mike D’Antoni is now the coach of the New York Knicks. An interestingly funny thing I have seen is that among most of the top NBA analysts, almost NONE of them have any idea why he would make this kind of move. He’s slotted now to make 6 mil a year for 4 years, which puts him as the 3rd highest paid coach behind 1. Phil Jackson and 2. Greg Poppovich(coach of the whiner Spurs).
Sometimes people think that the grass may be greener on the other side of a situation. I am a firm believer that sometimes I don’t want to even care what the grass may look like on the other side, as long as what I’ve got here and now works. (plus in the yard I grew up in you REALLY didn’t want to know what the grass looked like at times after the dog was done with it)
So now, the Phoenix Suns seem to be faced with a tough situation. Thunder Dan Majerle was mentioning how he would like to be an assistant coach for the Suns, and Eddie Johnson made mention that he’d like to shoot for the head coach spot. None of the more known names around the NBA’s coaching elite are even candidates, but thinking back to 2003 Mike D’Antoni was an assistant under Frank Johnson, and once Frank Johnson was asked to leave, D’Antoni slided right in.
My final thought is good luck to Mike D’Antoni and I wish him not only the best in New York, but also divine intervention in order to handle some of culturally diverse and interesting players they’ve got on that team…Especially the self-proclaimed Stephon “StarBury” Marbury (more like Starburst).
*Interesting note: Mike D’Antoni’s season(2003-2004) PRE-Steve Nash, the Suns record was: 29-53. The following year(2004-2005) with the newly acquired Steve Nash(no other roster change was made), the Suns record was: 62-20. That’s a huge difference in record, and to me that says more about the player than the coach.
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