Brian Windhorst

He is a coach that a lot of teams really like.

And so

I will be interested to see where Billy Donovan is next year and whether the team that, if he is in the league, if the team that hires him controversially fires their coach to hire him.

Because a lot of people like him.

Jerry Reinsdorf, the owner of the Bulls, was begging him to stay.

They were saying, please don't leave.

Billy, do you want to be the team president?

Whatever you want.

And it's not...

I'm not saying anything negative about him at all, but I would not say that he made Phil Jackson and Red Auerbach's record books quake with his performance.

You sometimes see...

unexpected transactions like that in the NBA.

Yeah, I would agree.

Well, the power of the NBA star is greatest other than maybe the super-duper star quarterback in the NFL.

The interesting thing is the coach that LeBron didn't get fired, he really wanted Eric Spolstra fired.

Not so much, I think he wanted Pat Riley to be the coach because I think he thought they would be better.

But he absolutely wanted Eric Spolstra fired his first year in Miami.

And Pat Riley said, yeah, I'm the boss here, not you.

Yeah.

And that decision, I remember this vividly.