Rachel Nichols

I would have probably gone Mitch Johnson based on the post-season results, but it's a regular season award.

I was going to say, in this one, I actually don't care when they announce it because unless it's the coach who botched the playoff series.

So, for example, if Kenny Atkinson this year was named Coach of the Year, last year's Coach of the Year, by the way, if it was this year he was named Coach of the Year and it was after this past series where every game he made coaching mistakes and the things he said after and before games...

it would feel like, man, you should have done this before.

But in this case, you know, them blowing the lead to the Sixers has as much to do with Jason Tatum ran out of gas and, you know, he eventually couldn't play the last game.

I mean, he was really struggling there.

So, you know, I still think he deserves it, even in hindsight.

Mitch Johnson, who I love as a young coach, but the Victor Webinyama factor makes it harder to say this was all him.

You know, Missoula spearheaded what the Celtics did this season.

Jalen Brown obviously was a huge part of that as an extension on the court.

But it was Missoula who told the organization, yeah, I mean, the front office traded away everyone.

They were prepared to be like, yeah, let's go for a high draft pick.

And Missoula was like, yeah, we're not doing that.

Sorry.

Yeah, it's weird.

I mean, are you friends with Bill Simmons or no?

Yeah.

So, I mean, I did not.

So he was the one who started calling Joe Missoula second row Joe because he didn't think he was like a good coach.

So some of my buddies I hoop with were like, can you?