Unless there was some other, non-basketball reason (???) Ballmer didn’t let Doc go to make a lateral move. I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he’s on the phone with a number of teams trying to pry someone elite away from them.

In the early 2000s there was a round-robin of available coaches who’d at least made or even won the finals available. Pat Riley, George Karl, Rudy T, Rick Adelman, Nellie, Larry Brown. As of now it seems like there’s only JVG in this class who’s shockingly still only 58 years old. But I fear he runs his mouth too much like Doc did. I like him, but that’s the one concern I have.