![]() ![]() It's a rough side of this business and I think they understand it. ![]() It has to do with the chemistry of the team, the style, maybe somebody believes the players need to hear a new voice. ”They don't go from being great coaches to bad coaches from one year to the next. “This is the nature of this league and I think sometimes it's the chemistry," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN in a televised interview before the draft lottery on Tuesday night. Also no longer with their teams for various reasons after recent runs to the finals: Ime Udoka in Boston, Cleveland’s David Blatt and then Tyronn Lue as well, and now Williams by the Suns. ![]() ![]() Three of the last four championship-winning coaches - Budenholzer in 2021, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Frank Vogel in 2020 and Nurse in 2019 – have since been fired by those clubs. Of the last nine coaches to take a team to the NBA Finals, only two - Kerr and Spoelstra - are still with the franchise that they went to the title round with. “You look around the coaching landscape, if you want a secure profession, coaching is not the one to get into. “I understand this business,” said Malone, who’ll lead Denver into the Western Conference finals starting Tuesday against the Los Angeles Lakers. ![]()
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