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The NBA entered the 2013-14 season with 13 new head coaches dotted throughout the league’s 30 NBA teams. Nine of those coaches are in their first year as a head coach, while four 50-win teams from last season ended up replacing their coaches at season’s end. On top of that, rumors have already started to swirl about Mike Woodson’s job security in New York , while Tyrone Corbin (many analysts’ pick as the first coach to be fired this season) has started Utah’s campaign with a 0-5 record. One of the deposed coaches from those 50-win teams, weirdly, won the Coach of the Year Award just before he was fired . Former Denver Nuggets coach and current ESPN studio analyst George Karl, in talking with The Sporting News’ Sean Deveney , does not like what he sees as an outbreak that is costing the veteran coaching community too many jobs, and too quickly a turnover rate: “I think right now, the 13 changes have scared a lot of coaches,” said Karl, who is working as an ESPN analyst now. “When you have three coaches who won 57, 56 and 56 get dismissed, and move on, it’s just difficult to understand. You have nine new coaches who have never coached an NBA game, and I am not saying there are not nine assistant coaches who are qualified to be good head coaches, but I just think the whole puzzle right now is, it’s too much. It’s too much change, it’s too much drastic reaction to failure and I think the pendulum will swing back to more realistic opinion of it all.”
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