Firing Bzdelik may have been only option
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Denver Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe fired coach Jeff Bzdelik in the midst a lackluster season that started with so much promise.
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Billy Donovan's NBA coaching career might end up being a whole lot shorter than his pro playing career -- and that didn't last very long.
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DENVER - Denver Nuggets General Manager Kiki Vandeweghe fired coach Jeff Bzdelik in the midst a lackluster season that started with so much promise.
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The Denver Nuggets have fired coach Jeff Bzdelik after two-plus seasons at the helm. Denver has struggled to a 13-15 start and is in the midst of a six-game slide.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Coach Mike Mularkey shut off every television in the locker room yesterday morning, ordering his Buffalo Bills to focus on the only game with playoff implications they could control.
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With nothing to play for this week, it would have been very easy for New England head coach Bill Belichick to employ the same tactics of Philadelphia Eagles
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Imagine if it were Isiah Thomasâs team instead of Larry Birdâs that since November 2004 had led the N.B.A. in behavioral lines crossed, combinations of punches thrown and shots fired from an actual gun.
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In the end, Doc Rivers was hot about too much trash talking and Randy Wittman was hot about a blown call. The coaches -- former Atlanta Hawks backcourt partners in the 1980s -- each had a valid point. There was a lot of trash talking, which is what you had to expect given the arrivals of Ricky Davis, Mark Blount, ...
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Maurice Cheeks is tired of talking about Allen Iverson. The Sixers coach might not have to deal with Philadelphia's biggest distraction much longer.
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When Mount Prospect native Jeff Bzdelik became head coach of the Denver Nuggets in 2002, the team was supposed to be a lost cause - and it was, going 17-65 that first season.
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They have been criticized roundly, at home and here in Europe, sometimes by their own coach. What the team lacks is to some observers more obvious than its attributes.
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Jeff Bzdelik, whose Nuggets team was off to a disappointing start this season, has been fired as head coach. The Nuggets have scheduled an 11:30 press conference to announce the decision.
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He might have won that game not so much with his play, as with his presence. Carolina went after him in full force, only they forgot to deal with the rest of the Atlanta Falcons in the proper manner.
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Ron Artest warned the Indiana Pacers. The volatile forward told them he was burned out. He needed a rest. He needed vacation time, comp time, sick days, whatever they could spare.
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Picked-up pieces while remembering that Len Bias died 21 years ago yesterday: Peter Chiarelli underwhelms us. His first coaching hire was a dud, and now he's apparently going to sell us on Claude Julien when most Bruins fans would prefer Mike Milbury. Charlie Jacobs underwhelms us, also. There appears to be a conscious effort to purge all things Harry Sinden ...
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He was viewed by the current Ukrainian administration as a mere problem to be solved. His views and ideas could not be allowed to propagate, for that would challenge the status quo.
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Football coaches tell their players they have to score just once and keep the other team from scoring to win. It is a coach's last option, and yesterday, West Roxbury coach Leo Sybertz had to settle for that.