Coach Gentry gets COVID
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WALTON TO SERVE AS ACTING COACH TONIGHT
i think i have the right link:
http://captainfoamy.blogspot.com/2005/12/
Still under contract and being paid by the Sacramento Kings, former head coach Luke Walton has been pressed into service to coach tonight's game against the Washington Wizards, in the wake of Interim Head Coach Alvin Gentry's positive Covid test.
Kings owner Vivek Ranadive explained, "We are almost dead broke and there's no way I'm going to pay a THIRD person to coach this sorry-ass team, but we know from experience that Luke will have the guys ready to compete."
Asked to comment, Walton explained that, "I'm going to have to look at the tape first, but my first inclination is to not change a single thing - after all, this team is very close to being a playoff, or at least a play-in team, thanks to my stellar work over the past couple of years. What's not to like?"
i think i have the right link:
http://captainfoamy.blogspot.com/2005/12/
Still under contract and being paid by the Sacramento Kings, former head coach Luke Walton has been pressed into service to coach tonight's game against the Washington Wizards, in the wake of Interim Head Coach Alvin Gentry's positive Covid test.
Kings owner Vivek Ranadive explained, "We are almost dead broke and there's no way I'm going to pay a THIRD person to coach this sorry-ass team, but we know from experience that Luke will have the guys ready to compete."
Asked to comment, Walton explained that, "I'm going to have to look at the tape first, but my first inclination is to not change a single thing - after all, this team is very close to being a playoff, or at least a play-in team, thanks to my stellar work over the past couple of years. What's not to like?"
[Hot take]
Divac first signed with the Kings because it was closer to his home in LA. He will always be a Laker first because they brought him over to the league.
Divac wasn't brought back. Petrie chose to spend the money instead to sign Greg Ostertag.
Christie was traded because he suffered from injuries (plantar fasciitis & bone spurs later on) and was no longer the same player he was before.
That being said, I fully agree that Christie >>>> Divac always.
[/Hot take]
Divac first signed with the Kings because it was closer to his home in LA. He will always be a Laker first because they brought him over to the league.
Divac wasn't brought back. Petrie chose to spend the money instead to sign Greg Ostertag.
Christie was traded because he suffered from injuries (plantar fasciitis & bone spurs later on) and was no longer the same player he was before.
That being said, I fully agree that Christie >>>> Divac always.
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Doug Christie is the guy who, after already being injured, himself, in a playoff game, saw Stojakovic being brought back to the locker room, and realized his team needed him, and went back out, hurt.
Divac is the guy (and I wish my Internet-fu was strong enough that I could track down the article where I read this, nearly 17 years ago [I think it might have been in the LA Times, but I can't find it]) who said that he left Sacramento because Petrie didn't trade Webber fast enough, and that if it would have happened sooner, he would have stayed, for less money. **** him, forever.
Divac is the guy (and I wish my Internet-fu was strong enough that I could track down the article where I read this, nearly 17 years ago [I think it might have been in the LA Times, but I can't find it]) who said that he left Sacramento because Petrie didn't trade Webber fast enough, and that if it would have happened sooner, he would have stayed, for less money. **** him, forever.