George Karl wonders if his voice still matters in the NBA.
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Mantis Toboggan M.D.
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Nobody notices because things ended ugly everywhere he went and his teams never won anything or left any meaningful impact of any kind. He burned bridges with every team and star player he worked with and to this day still throws them all under the bus without a moment of hesitation just like when he was coaching. Nobody wants his advice because all he did in his day was lose in the first round anyway. Fired midseason twice, missed the playoffs 4 times, and went out in the first round 14 times. That’s 20 different seasons of abject failure. At minimum he lost 3-4 times in the 1st round after a 55+ win season too including the first 1 seed to lose to an 8 seed. What could he have to say to any organization that would help them?
"It Was Always Jerry"
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I have nothing to add to this thread but George Karl 
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Wonder if he won just one he'd get to bullshyt around like Doc does.
Join Kobe in the upper room so he can son you in the afterlife too.
The other stuff can be knocked but missing the playoffs 4 times in 32 seasons isn't a black mark. The 55-win/1st round combo happened twice. He does have one at 53.
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
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In his defense doc also had crazy bad luck in a lot of his losses. Just as importantly, he didn’t burn bridges or throw anyone under the bus except Ben Simmons who Embiid threw under the bus too which he deserved 10,000% for that shyt he pulled against Atlanta. Some of Doc’s losses are as follows:
2009: Boston is down their best player for the entire playoffs.
2010: injuries force them to play Sheed for 36 minutes in game 7 and they get crushed on the glass.
2011 & 2012: LeBron and Wade go nuts down the stretch in various games and LeBron has that game 6.
2013: Chris Paul and Blake Griffin both get hurt.
2014: the refs kinda hose them in game 5 vs Oklahoma City.
2015: Corey Brewer and Josh Smith turn into Steph and Klay with the rockets season hanging in the balance.
2016: Chris Paul and Blake Griffin both get hurt.
2024-25: Dame and Giannis have both been hurt.
Its sad cause on the real those 1992 and 1993 Seattle Supersonic teams were some of my favorite teams ever
They had everything from top to bottom
Stacked like cards
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dude is like the curt schilling of the nba
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he’s a hateful cracker . bitter personalities end up being avoided and shunned away 
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Dude shytted on his players at every stop, and now that era, which includes those same players and their peers, are now in positions of power whether its the media, coaching, or front office
Wtf did he expect
Wtf did he expect
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“As a young guy, he was quite full of himself,” said Bob Whitsitt, the general manager who hired Karl from Real Madrid to lead the Sonics in 1992. “He kept ripping ownership, kept ripping management, kept leaking things to the media, fighting with players. He kind of thought he was the show. He burned every bridge there was.”
The final match was lit in 2017, when he published a book with author Curt Sampson. “Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection” was the talk of the NBA for the wrong reasons. Spicy prepublication excerpts highlighted potshots at former players and general managers. He criticized J.R. Smith as entitled, and suggested Anthony and Martin carried burdens because they didn’t have fathers to “show them how to act like a man.” He said today’s players couldn’t hear his messaging because they had “money in their ears.”
“I thought the book went to print as a celebration, and it came out like I slapped the game of basketball in the face,” Karl said. “And the whole thing comes down to … you have to break some amount of eggs. You can’t make it all celebratory. And I don’t think I broke that many eggs, to be honest with you. I could have gone a lot further. But … people thought I disrespected the game, and that hurt me.”
“I had no shortage of people calling me, asking me, ‘Does this MFer think he is ever going to get another job after this?!'” Whitsitt said.
The final match was lit in 2017, when he published a book with author Curt Sampson. “Furious George: My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection” was the talk of the NBA for the wrong reasons. Spicy prepublication excerpts highlighted potshots at former players and general managers. He criticized J.R. Smith as entitled, and suggested Anthony and Martin carried burdens because they didn’t have fathers to “show them how to act like a man.” He said today’s players couldn’t hear his messaging because they had “money in their ears.”
“I thought the book went to print as a celebration, and it came out like I slapped the game of basketball in the face,” Karl said. “And the whole thing comes down to … you have to break some amount of eggs. You can’t make it all celebratory. And I don’t think I broke that many eggs, to be honest with you. I could have gone a lot further. But … people thought I disrespected the game, and that hurt me.”
Many inside NBA circles rolled their eyes. It was another instance of George being George.“I had no shortage of people calling me, asking me, ‘Does this MFer think he is ever going to get another job after this?!'” Whitsitt said.