If anything, you should think Durant/Kyrie weren't sold on Jacque. Obviously KD wanted Nash, and didn't respect this nikka averaging 6.6 ppg his best year. Y'all really shytting on a two-time league MVP?
Nets hire Steve Nash as coach
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If anything, you should think Durant/Kyrie weren't sold on Jacque. Obviously KD wanted Nash, and didn't respect this nikka averaging 6.6 ppg his best year. Y'all really shytting on a two-time league MVP?
MooseMouthMthafuga
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Nets will be FA hot spot.Players around
the league love Nash.Anybody who has
ever played with him say he's the best
teammate ever.I think he'll be able to
mesh well with the ever mercurial,
eccentric Kyrie Irving.
the league love Nash.Anybody who has
ever played with him say he's the best
teammate ever.I think he'll be able to
mesh well with the ever mercurial,
eccentric Kyrie Irving.
AJtheOne
Nets/Giants/Yankees
Yooo Steve Nash was working out with levert and KD years ago one summer .. Like Leverts second year.. This shyt been in the books for years.. Them nikkaz was never going anywhere but Brooklyn.. Sean Marks been planned this shyt
Light-years ahead
MooseMouthMthafuga
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That being said, I always saw Nash as
more of a GM, not a coach.I think he
could turn into a new generation Jerry
West.
more of a GM, not a coach.I think he
could turn into a new generation Jerry
West.
temecula
How many black coaches with 0 experience have received such an opportunity? Off top only person I can think of is Bill Russell and he was Player/Coach. Magic got the Lakers job but that was at the end of the season and they didn't have any players of the caliber of KD or Kyrie and he was Magic and it was the Lakers. You got guys like Ewing and Stackhouse toiling away for years and this guy just gets plucked out of nowhere. What exactly makes him the best candidate? Other than being white what separates him from any other HOF or HOF caliber retired player that I don't see just being gifted jobs like this? I'm sure KD and Kyrie had to sign off on this. We can debate their level on involvement but we really don't know. You mean to tell me there aren't any black coaches/former players that they respect? I think a big issue here is the randomness. Like no one was talking about Steve Nash coaching and then boom he's coaching KD and Kyrie.
AJtheOne
Nets/Giants/Yankees
Gil Scott-Heroin
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It speaks.
It took you two days to build up the courage to respond to me.
Stop trying to downplay that shot from him, as if he doesn't have more game-winners than anyone else in the league over the last 1-2 seasons. And it's no surprise you conveniently left out this part -
In Game 7, he scored 70% of his team's points in the second half and hit the GW. I mean, there's nothing more you can say now; you can't move the goalposts anymore. Whenever you're ready, you can come pick up this L, and in the meantime, I don't wanna hear a peep outta you about anything.
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Explain
I don't see your logic jump. Nash worked with KD in Golden State. Marks played with Nash in Phoenix. Kyrie and KD (Kyrie especially being one of the most outspoken players when it comes to these situations) would need to 100% buy in on the HC hire, and Nash was one / two generations before them so they probably looked up to him as a player more than a Ewing or whoever. Nash was also apparently being courted for months. We heard in the rumors for a long time the Nets wanted a big name that garners respect like Pop. So I don't see the reconciliation here between the "randomness" of the hire and something deeper, you need to explain that for me.
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AJtheOne
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What has he done to be courted? How does he garner respect like Pop when he hasn't coached a day in his life? I already explained it...where is the black guy getting such an opportunity. It's usually the black guy getting bumped for the white guy that has never coached in his life. If this was the guy that they both said they had to have then that is one thing, but I'm pretty sure there are other players they looked up to from that same generation that are black.
He garners respect because he's a top 10 point guard of all time and one of the biggest names from the 2000s
You literally just said Magic Johnson got a front office job off name recognition and franchise loyalty even though he had zero experience and was totally unqualified. NBA teams bringing in dudes close to the game but who never had direct experience in the job is so common. You can literally say the same about Timmy getting an assistant coach gig. There's plenty of dudes who earned their stripes for years as video coordinators, sitting on coaches benches as assistants, etc. who get passed up for former players without as much experience.Gil Scott-Heroin
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Rivers
Zeke
Jackson
Kidd (he was named HC for this very team back in 2013 - the season after he stopped playing)
Fisher.
And it's not like Nash has had ZERO experience; he's been a player consultant for the last few years with the Warriors, and has worked-out with players for the last half a decade. As it's been reiterated throughout this thread - I'd imagine it's one of the reasons why he landed this job because of the rapport he's built with Durant, both as a mentor and helping him develop his game.