Doc Rivers for Head Coach?

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Trade burks

You feelin okay this morning?

 

[fishonjazz]

You feelin okay this morning?

I love burks but all the championships combined with the joy of seeing cp3, lebron, beal, griffin and wiggins for 82 games a year, would mend my broken heart

 

[Stoked]

Please happen.

I'd rather see the Lakers sold and moved out of town.

 

[friendsinmyhead]

After the @#$% storm that happened over the weekend, perhaps would Doc Rivers be looking to move?

I think we probably have a better chance of Sterling coming to Utah and buying the team then for Doc to coach the Jazz

 

[Stifle Tower]

Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander told the Houston Chronicle that the NBA should allow the Los Angeles Clippers players to become free agents so that they don't have to play for Donald Sterling.

He made this suggestion to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who said that he would consider it.

“I thought that there’s got to be a way to disrupt him from owning the team,” Alexander said. “I gave [Silver] the sword to deal with this. I said, ‘Let the players become free agents.’ I mentioned that to Adam. I told Adam I don’t think he can be removed because the constitution (of the NBA) only allows him to be removed except for gambling. I’m not sure that legally can be done. But if he loses his players, nobody is going to want to go there. He’ll only be able to get a player that is worth $2 million and will play for $12 (million.) And who is going to want to coach there? If you’re a player in the NBA you don’t want to play for somebody like that. If you worked for a company, you would walk away and say, ‘I’m gone.' I think the players should have that right.”

“He listened to it,” Alexander added. “He said he hadn’t heard that before. He said to me, ‘You always give me a novel idea that I haven’t heard before.’ He told me he would look at it and see what the professionals around him think.”

Not going to happen. To let players out of signed contracts because they have philosophical differences with an owner is a slippery slope. NBA will never want to open up an escape route which could then used as an argument/precedent for other situations.

Enough financial pressure can be brought to bear by sponsors, luxury box and high-end season ticket holders, coaching staff resigning, contracted players demanding trades, agents refusing to represent FA's in negotiations with Clippers, etc.

If I were a betting man, I'd expect Silver to announce the maximum penalty he has at his current disposal ($1M fine, immediate suspension). Then in lieu of a formal owners vote to oust Sterling (which would eventually wind up in the courts), he'll work behind the scenes to broker a sale between Sterling and Magic's group. Saves both parties millions in litigation costs.

 

[VINYLONE]

To a place that's a haven of tolerance and racial harmony?

I think the Jazz franchise has been nothing but inclusive. Is there something I don't know about?