SportsTV: Quietly, the first woman to coach in the NBA

[Bob Jersey]

"Pop" got ejected in the second quarter last night (12/30) as his Spura battled the Lakers, and assistant Becky Hammon, longtime WNBA player, took over...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/sports/basketball/becky-hammon-first-woman-nba.html (link/$)

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[PGage]

I of course was watching this as it happened last night. The Lakers were already clearly in charge of the game, and the Spurs did no better with Hammon, but still, pretty cool.

Pop may be the best coach in the history of the NBA (certainly the best to never coach fir the Lakers), and he is a great man, but he does have a temper. Still, he did seem to over react to a mildly bad call, and one may be forgiven for wondering if he had purposely gotten kicked out to get it over with, perhaps in preparation for her coaching a few games from the start with a little less hoopla (Pop is in his 70s).

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[John Edwards]

I saw the clip of Pop getting ejected. I agree he was basically asking to be ejected. I'm sure later he'll call it "load management". 

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[JW]

> Pop may be the best coach in the history of the NBA (certainly the best to

> never coach fir the Lakers)

Which nine-time champion ex-Lakers coach is the Coach of the Year trophy named for?

[PGage]

Don’t get me started on that, but yes, I constructed my sentence specifically to communicate that I do not consider the trophy’s namesake to be in the running for being one of the three best coaches in the history of the Association. Much as Cy Young is not really one of the three best pitchers in the history of the MLB.

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[Bob Jersey]

Uhhh, it wasn't named for him... it's still got a certain C*lt*cs coach on it.   B

JW, to PGage, Jan 1st 2021:

[PGage]

So, I suspect Bob that JW was simply pointing out with a little (well deserved) snark that the Coach if the Year trophy is not named for either Pop or a former Laker coach, but by a certain long time Laker nemesis who was insanely successful with the Lakers arepa enemy in Massachusetts. 

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[JW]

> So, I suspect Bob that JW was simply pointing out with a little (well
> deserved) snark that the Coach if the Year trophy is not named for either
> Pop or a former Laker coach, but by a certain long time Laker nemesis who

> was insanely successful with the Lakers arepa enemy in Massachusetts.

Exactly.

More snark would be pointing out that one of the Lakers' most successful coaches (John Kundla) was done before the team moved to Los Angeles.

Ultimately, I think those 11 Celtic titles in 13 years are so hard to wrap our heads around that there's a tendency to underrate them.

[PGage]

Well no. As a passionate Laker fan who suffered through a childhood of playing second fiddle to the Celtics, only relieved in 1985 ( we have mostly dominated them since then), I do not underrate their championship run. If anything it is overrated in my mind, like the monsters in the closet of my childhood bedroom. 

Auerbach was a great, if complicated, figure in the early NBA (a sentence the adolescent version of myself would never have allowed himself to type).I have reasons that I think valid (though have to admit my bias) for ranking him no higher than #4 on list of great NBA coaches, behind (in no particular order at this point) Phil Jackson, Pat Riley and Greg Popovich. The reasons have to do with the differences in the NBA between the vintage and modern period, in terms of number of opponents, number of miles travelled, and full diversity among the players, and to some extent the rules of the game. Basically, it was just a lot easier to win an NBA championship in those days (this also applies, even more, to Kundla and those championships Laker Nation still claims from Minnesota, which were won I think all or most before the 24 second clock).

Similarly, while a great figure in the early MLB, I would not really rate someone like Joe McCarthy as the best manager in baseball history.

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