Of course, Fizdale’s stint in New York was a second opportunity after he was fired as coach of the Memphis Grizzlies a season after he led the team to the playoffs.
That example is illustrative of a broader trend: Black coaches who leave their jobs are being replaced more often with non-Black coaches, while non-Black coaches are being replaced more often with other non-Black coaches. Between the 2000-01 and 2014-15 seasons, 51 percent of non-Black coaches who were fired or resigned were replaced by another non-Black coach, and 49 percent were replaced by a Black coach.
It also appears that, relative to their non-Black counterparts, newly hired Black coaches have increasingly been put in positions where it may be more difficult to succeed. All new coaches tend to inherit teams that struggled in the previous season: New coaches since 2000-01 have taken on teams with a previous season Simple Rating System average of -2.09.From the 2000-01 season through the 2014-15 season, Black coaches actually joined teams with better ratings than their white counterparts: -1.
Furthermore, one of the most common areas of experience for Black head coaches in the NBA seems to be increasingly less sought after: playing experience.In that 2015 piece, Beck wrote that NBA teams were increasingly looking for more “unconventional hires” and moving away from the “standard pool of former players-turned-coaches, a pool that is, by definition, predominantly Black.
Beck’s observation still holds true. Between the 2000-01 and 2014-15 seasons, 63.5 percent of newly hired coaches had played in the ABA or NBA, but those bona fides weren’t spread evenly among races. A whopping 83.1 percent of newly hired Black coaches had playing experience, while only about half of non-Black coaches did.
FiveThirtyEight How soon ‘til “we” get to everyone hired must be black?”
Because white men make better coaches
An extremely boring sport!
Just because you can be one of the troops doesn’t mean you know how to teach or that race is the answer to it all..!!
wI do not ant to sleep alone today
Well they do what China wants so there's that.
What about women coaches? Why this identity crap all the time? Give it a rest.
Color should not matter, it should always be who is the most qualified applicant for the job. Success will generate opportunities
If they are not good coaches they should not be coaching.
Cause they suck
Are there any white players in the NBA? Asking for a friend.
I tend not to trust the brainiacs in NBA front offices. These are the people that gave a real head coaching job to Kurt Rambis. Can’t get your credibility back after that one.
And LeBron wants us to think his message will work when his bosses won't even hire blacks to coach and run teams🤣🤣🤣 He is perfectly ok with shutting up and dribble
Thanks a lot Steve Kerr
How about this crazy idea, who’s ever the best for the job gets it? Mind blown right?
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