Guys who were in the carousel like Don Nelson, Larry Brown and George Karl have fallen out with only Lenny Wilkens being a black coach that did the same. Yet the sidelines are full of white head coaches. Even with their staffs of assistants getting blacker, we aren't seeing much push at the top level and let's not even approach the front office.

It's not easy to push specific examples but this is less about who gets fired than who never even gets a chance. Coaching is a tough business and changes get made all the time, but you'd think a lot more first-time hires would be black coaches or there'd be more upward mobility for the increasing number of black assistants.