6 Sports Managers Who Hired Themselves To Coach
Timberwolfman Kevin McHale’s bite is much worse than his bark.
Yesterday, Kevin McHale abandoned his post as Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves and took over for the team’s fired head coach, Randy Wittman, whose record in Minny was 38-105 (woof). This isn’t the first time the GM has jacked a coach’s job. In 2005, he replaced Flip Saunders and posted a respectable 19-12 record in the interim, then expressed no desire to keep Minnesota’s head coaching position (a.k.a. repeated doggy-style ass-rape by the rest of the NBA).
Now McHale, who sucks so bad as a GM that his greatest T-Wolves achievement is trading Kevin Garnett to the Celtics so Boston could win a championship, will coach full-time because nobody else can win with the shit teams he puts together. And McHale is only the latest GM to move in on the coach’s slot (pause) when the previous sideline stalker got axed.
Read on for five more ambitious GMs...
John mAson December 10, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I dunno, seems to me those guys are WAY overrated!
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gary December 10, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I agree why not talk about sports managers that went above and beyond to keep their team in there city
Mario Lemieux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Lemieux
peter December 10, 2008 at 1:46 pm
You guys forgot about Spurs GM Gregg Popovich replacing Bob Hill during the 1996 NBA season.
Joe K. December 10, 2008 at 2:03 pm
What no Lou Lamoriello? He has done it twice now. Both times with playoff contending teams.
Heck, he fired Claude Julien with 3 games left in the season and the second best record in the Eastern Conference.
CHS December 10, 2008 at 2:32 pm
You omitted the Spur’s Greg Popovich, who took over as coach from Bob Hill in ‘96-’97 season, has won four NBA championships since, and relinguished G.M. responsibilities to R.C. Buford along the way.
Jeff December 10, 2008 at 11:45 pm
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