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The Phoenix PD helped him there. She was a nobody, just a foster child.
They brought up it momentarily as he was running for some elected office in California last fall, but, it didn't stick and he was elected.
Suns coach has home-grown humility, dedication
To understand Suns coach's universal respect, start in his hometown
by Paul Coro
The Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...entry1025.html
The Phoenix PD helped him there. She was a nobody, just a foster child.
They brought up it momentarily as he was running for some elected office in California last fall, but, it didn't stick and he was elected.
He was running for mayor of Sactown, a pretty big deal. My drivers ed teacher a few years ago was an ex cop and he said all KJ hd to do was pay a certain amount of money to the right people and things got taken care of.
A season isn't necessarily a failure just because you don't win a le. Was Boston's 2008-09 season a failure? They tried their best, but they didn't have the horses; they didn't win the le. That's a season they can still be proud of.
The Suns never were as good as the Spurs in those years when San Antonio eliminated us. We had tons of firepower and talent, but we had no defense and we had no answer for them. They knew how to stop our runs; they knew how to close out on our 3-point shooters; they knew how to sick Bowen and others on Nash to get under his skin. I was mad about the Horry shove on Nash, and some of Bowen's rough defense, but other than that they just outplayed and out-toughed us.
Nonetheless, I consider those successful years. To have a team that is a year-long contender and comes close in the playoffs, that's something that about 90% of the teams in the NBA would take any day. As I said, only one team can win it each year.
I still don't think the Suns have anything to gain by tanking this season, since they don't own their draft pick. They might as well play the best they can. I'm not too optimistic; they look like a 40-win team to me right now, a team that'll finish behind the Clips and the Thunder as maybe the 10th seed in the West. Sad. Dark times ahead.
Then you should become a fan of kindergarten soccer leagues where everyone gets a participation trophy at the end of the season.
They also have nothing to gain from giving washed up players long term contracts just so they can maybe get the 8 seed this year.
Nooooooo! That really happend? His own daughter? Did she know it was him?
What a sick .
I'd bet you on two accounts 1. You have never played sports at a high level. 2. If you asked the Boston players they would all say last year was a failure. Followed of couse by all the excuses.
Being proud of a season and being content with a season are two different things. If Boston wants to be proud of how they played last year, sure, but I don't think any of them are content.
If he didn't know it was his own daughter it ain't so bad. It always bothers me on the show catching predators, cuz there ain't no 13 year old there.
Back to this season....
Its too bad we can't get an owner/GM that has the stones and the bank account to come in here and change the culture of offensive show pony basketball.
Kerr said all the right things at first...now his only concern is selling tickets for the boss.
A smart GM would've used this season as a bridge to let the fanbase know that rebuilding from ground zero was imminent(keeping Shaq on for his expiring,trading Nash for draft picks/younger players,letting Grant Hill walk,giving guys like Duds,Barbosa,Lou,Clark,Dragic heavy minutes to evaluate etc...).
A smart Gm would have done absolutely everything in his power to use assets such as Nash,JRich and maybe even Barbosa to re-claim a #1 draft pick via trade. Even if this would've failed,I'd have said " you OKC,we're not going to let you dictate how we run our team just because you own our #1."
Instead, we got another 3 yrs of Nash dictating the tempo, the Channing Fry 5th tier FA signing that epitomizes what the SUNS are looking for in terms of help, Grant Hill taking minutes away from our best defensive player(Duds) and our #1 draft pick(Clark), and Amare Stoudemire getting outrebounded by guards.
If there's a light at the end of the tunnel I'd be glad to hear it from my fellow SUNS fans.
This year's team is a re-tread,a recycled roster of a system that was garbage in the first place in terms of winning anything important.
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