Dunleavy Out As Clippers Coach #NBA
Dunleavy enjoying another night on the job with the Clippers.
Everyone knows the Clippers have been awful for, well, forever. It has been written about, talked about, and dissected for years. But perhaps the most stunning example of their ineptitude is the fact that Mike Dunleavy, who resigned yesterday as head coach, is the winningest coach in franchise history, despite being 110 games under .500 in his Clippers career. He walks away from the sidelines with not only the most wins in Clipper history, but also a promising career as a Tony Soprano stunt double.
The bar is set so low for the Clippers that Dunleavy lasted 7 years in LA despite only making one playoff appearance and banking a single winning season. And it isn’t even his fault. You try doing something with the Clippers. The franchise doesn’t have a black cloud hanging over the team, they have a hurricane.
Blake Griffin’s knees probably started aching the second he saw the Clippers win the lottery. It isn’t bad luck that Griffin got hurt as much as it it standard operating procedure. It’s what they do.
Dunleavy leaves as coach, remains as the team’s GM, and gets to keep his front row seat to the biggest disaster in all of pro sports.
Eric Gordon, Marcus Camby, Chris Kaman and Blake Griffin are all players. Baron Davis is a highly effective NBA player when he cares about trying. None of this matters. They are the Clippers.
Take me to the Bing!
Until they perform and exorcism, sacrifice a chicken at center court before each game, or something, none of this is ever going to change. Mike Dunleavy did the best he could and a man can only take so much before it is time to move on. He may have not been the best coach in NBA history (he definitely wasn’t), but he could have been some whack combination of Red Auerbach, Pat Riley and Phil Jackson and the Clippers still wouldn’t have been able to overcome their bad mojo.
Dunleavy should move onto a more realistic challenge like fixing General Motors or creating jobs. It would be a hell of a lot easier than trying to get the Clippers over the hump.
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