D'antoni coached several of the league's greatest offenses ever, brought a team to the WCF twice, and his runs in NY weren't too different from Woodson's (Woodson made the second round once, D'Antoni only took them to the first round). Woodson coached mediocre Atlanta teams that rarely won 50 games in the Eastern Conference.

And if you want to talk about GOOD jobs, with GOOD talent, then Mike Brown's first go-round in Cleveland with the league's best player has to be weighed against any antipathy he's gotten.

Oh yeah, and Pringles was an assistant in Philly and would have stayed such if he hadn't gotten this gig (Stephen Silas was the runner-up for the gig).

Man, everything about the NBA is racist. It's ridiculous that anyone besides players and coaches talk about the game so much, it's disgusting that so many white coaches get their second job after fucking up someplace before qualified black candidates get the same looks, and a league that makes almost every dollar it does off of the talents of black men will always have a race problem when team owners and management are pretty much uniformly white.

But goddamn, y'all two are talking out of ya'lls asses. Byron Scott? Mike Woodson? BRIAN SHAW? Like, did you watch any of these men's teams play the last time they coached? Scratch that, know that answer.

Harp on Thibs' underperformance, on white mediocrity being rewarded everywhere (and man, do ya'll two's takes on Kerr and D'Antoni look fucking dumb when looking at results), but please don't tell me the answer is hiring the same people who sucked elsewhere. Black coaches should gets as much time as their white counterparts, and guys like Scott Skiles and Kevin McHale should never touch an NBA clipboard again. But rewarding black mediocrity instead of white mediocrity might be fair to those coaches, but it isn't fair to players, fans, or, most importantly, the crop of young black coaches who can do these jobs as well as or better than Stevens, Kerr, or any other new coach getting a good situation.