Dan Hurley On Coaching In The NBA: “That Would Be My Goal”

[gtcam]

Step back? No way. There's only 30 NBA head coaching jobs, it's an elite level. If you prove yourself a decent coach and get fired, it's really not a detriment to your career. Even guys who made a fool of themselves at the NBA level (Calipari, Pitino) returned to high level college basketball with no issues. If the OKC Thunder fire Billy Donovan he can take his pick of college jobs. I'm sure he'd be a top candidate for good NBA positions too.

Plus, those guys get ludicrous fully-guaranteed contracts. Look at Fred Hoiberg - made the leap to a mediocre Bulls team for 5 yrs/25 million a couple years ago. Got fired this year after ownership decided to tank. He still gets paid, and now he's right back to high major college basketball at Nebraska.

Coaching in some NBA cities, organizations is a step back
I don't care if there are 30 teams, 100 teams or 10 teams
The only good thing is the money
An NBA coach, in nearly 75% of the situations is not the coach, the one or two superstars on those teams run the system
There are only a few Pops and Brad Stevens out there

 

[gtcam]

Chief’s experience with Danny is that he is going to give you the “honest” direct answer regardless of circumstances or how others might answer who put on more filters.

That made my day
Thanks

 

[Hoops91]

It’s a dumb thing for him to say even if it’s the truth - doesn’t help the team and doesn’t generate any buzz in the nba. Just dumb

 

[Chief00]

It’s a dumb thing for him to say even if it’s the truth - doesn’t help the team and doesn’t generate any buzz in the nba. Just dumb

That may be true.