For the select few New York Knicks fans holding out hope that team president Phil Jackson won’t be hiring Kurt Rambis as the team’s next coach, Zen Master disciple and former Denver Nuggets head honcho Brian Shaw has some bad news: He’s almost positive your wishes are futile. Here’s what he told ESPN’s Hannah Storm, [...]
Oh, Knicks. The New York Knicks fired Derek Fisher on Monday, which came as a fairly big surprise considering his ties to team president Phil Jackson. But he’s gone. And while Luke Rambis, one of the worst head coaches I’ve personally ever seen, will be taking over in the interim, the Knicks have their wish [...]
February 8, 2016
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The Denver Nuggets fired Brian Shaw, and neither Kevin Garnett nor David West is okay with it. West played under Shaw while he was an assistant with the Indiana Pacers. Shortly after the news broke on Tuesday, he was asked to respond. And so he did. Per Vigilant Sports’ Scott Agness: [tweet https://twitter.com/ScottAgness/status/572822756879945728] But David, [...]
March 5, 2015
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Kenneth Faried is not a go-to player. No, that’s not new. Everyone knows this. Even Denver Nuggets head coach Brian Shaw, who had some weird things to stay while discussing the Manimal’s regression this season. From The Denver Post‘s Mark Kiszla: “There are a lot of players out there that feel like they’re better than [...]
February 26, 2015
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You’ve got to be kidding me. Jason Kidd has emerged as the frontrunner for the Brooklyn Nets’ vacant head coaching position according to Fred Kerber of the New York Post: The serious interest goes both ways. Jason Kidd badly wants the Nets’ head-coaching job, and multiple sources insist the attraction is mutual and the team’s [...]
June 11, 2013
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Jason Kidd is interested in a return to the NBA he really never left. Fresh off announcing his retirement from the New York Knicks and league as a whole, Kidd is apparently interested in coaching the Brooklyn Nets. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, Kidd is “chasing” the vacancy that was created when the [...]
June 10, 2013
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Phil Jackson won’t be coaching the Los Angeles Clippers because, well, that would be creepy. The Clippers agreed to part ways with head coach Vinny Del Negro—whose contract was up—on Tuesday, paving the way for them to hire anyone they wanted—so long as Donald Sterling was willing to actually pay them and Chris Paul approved. [...]
September 17, 2012 – Rob De France 7’1, 325 lb. rapper, actor, TNT analyst, and 15-time All-Star, the always irreverent Shaquille O’Neal criticized Dwight Howard’s move to the Los Angeles Lakers, a move which so closely mirrors O’Neal’s own defection from the Orlando Magic 16 years earlier. Howard can only hope to enjoy similar success [...]
September 17, 2012
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August 20, 2012: R.S. De France – Given the recent news in Laker Nation that they have acquired Dwight Howard, we decided to rank this move against some of the other big Laker trades in NBA history…. [...]
August 20, 2012
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May 23, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors It has been rumored for quite some time now that ESPN analyst and former NBAer, Mark Jackson has been interested in coaching. It looks like he may have taken a step closer to that as he reportedly has met with Golden State about their coaching vacancy. Mark Jackson [...]
May 23, 2011
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