We'll see if it continues, or whether the stars will bring along their lower-spotlight buddies if exhibition tours get cranking. Maybe Stern will be proven right. Maybe someone like Dwight Howard will bitch to the NBA 2K18 MT media that the Timofey Mozgovs of the league are taking all the damn European jobs, leaving nothing for dudes like him. That seems more likely than what Stern is worried about as of now.
KAHN JOBRemember: David Kahn wanted to 2K18 MT Coins replace Kurt Rambis with a coach more devoted to the fast break. To date, Kahn's interviews for the job have included Mike Woodson (who ran a slow team in Atlanta), Terry Porter (canned for putting the brakes on the post-D'Antoni Suns), Larry Brown (this can't be life) and Bernie Bickerstaff (relatively down-tempo in Charlotte). Now reports suggest Kahn will interview Sam Mitchell and, ahem,
Mike Fratello.Choosing to interview Brown was a serious belly laugh; the guy's a legend, but he's also allergic to up-tempo basketball and he's a complete GM-killer. He'd be able to teach the young Timberwolves a thing or two ... but the product on the court would be slow like Stanley Roberts running in quicksand.I would have loved to see Bryan Colangelo's face when the Mitchell reports surfaced;
Smith is a fine coach with obvious ties to 'Sota, but the last time his GM tried to foist an up-tempo system with up-tempo players on him, it didn't exactly work out. The Raptors' '100 Shots Or More' offense died faster than alaundromatin a nudist colony.But Fratello? The Czar?!Kahn should be forced to take field trips to Atlanta, Cleveland and Memphis and talk to fans who watched Fratello's teams at http://www.nba18mt.com/