Thunder Fire Scott Brooks

[SilverSpur]

That franchise is going in the wrong direction. Which is good news for us. We will have a tough time as it is dealing with the rise of the Pelicans. The Pelicans are two small forwards away from being legit.

[ajh18]

Wouldn't be surprised to see Mark Jackson considered. Seems Brooks-like in his approach to "coaching" aka, let my players do their thing while being their buddy (although I don't think Brooks was all that liked).

As much as I dislike the guy, but Mike D'Antoni and the SSOL offense would be interesting in Oklahoma, particularly with Westbrook's emergence as an MVP candidate this year.

Mike Malone might be a good, under-the-radar candidate. Players seem to like the guy and he's decent at getting effort out of a team.

Donovan would be terrible for the Thunder, great for the league in my opinion. I really struggle to see that team listening to him at all.

[DarrinS]

What took so long?

[TampaDude]

The rumor is the Florida coach Bill Donovan but I am not sure a team that was given no guidance and free rein under Brooks would respond to any kind of structure from a rookie NBA coach. IMHO it would require a very strong hand/well respected coach to get Westbrook to come to heel. KD not so much but Russ is a different animal.

Billy D has an awesome recruiting class coming in for next season, so I don't see him leaving UF any time soon.

TBH, I always saw Donovan going to the Spurs if he ever went to the NBA.

[Avitus1]

Surprised it didn't happen last year.

[TheGreatYacht]

Billy Donovan