View Full Version : Lakers in "Serious Discussions" with Coach K
TheSlipperyOne
01 Jul 2004, 05:56 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1832934
Wow. I don't think it will happen, but it is quite interesting. And I've been pretty wrong when it comes to if college players head to the NBA so why not with coaches.
I figured it would be good for its own thread as it can involve college and NBA fans news-wise. If a mod wants to move it to the NBA offseason thread that's fine by me.
CrewDust
01 Jul 2004, 05:59 PM
http://msn.foxsports.com/story/2554060
Let's all laugh at Duke Fan.
Ian McCracken
01 Jul 2004, 07:40 PM
If K goes to the Lakers, the Blue Devils will probably steal Tommy Amaker from Michigan. That would blow.
Chizzy
01 Jul 2004, 07:54 PM
I doubt coach K will leave college basketball
kckicker23
01 Jul 2004, 08:17 PM
No way K leaves....no way. Holy crap, how devastating would this be? STAY, COACH K!
amerifolklegend
01 Jul 2004, 08:32 PM
Why on earth would Shoe-Shesku want to leave Duke?
He's set for life in one of the greatest jobs a human can hold on this planet.
microbrew
01 Jul 2004, 08:56 PM
Maybe he's looking for a new challenge. He'd be the next high profile college coach, after Mike Montgomery.
And I can just hear a certain college basketball commentor blowing even more hot air.
TheSlipperyOne
01 Jul 2004, 09:51 PM
Lakers have made an official offer and expect to hear back in a few days.
Since they've offered that means Kobe wants him there.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1832934
Narmec
02 Jul 2004, 04:06 AM
No ********ing way he goes to the Lakers.
Then again, maybe it's not such a bad thing.
Narmec
02 Jul 2004, 04:10 AM
Maybe he's looking for a new challenge. He'd be the next high profile college coach, after Mike Montgomery.
And I can just hear a certain college basketball commentor blowing even more hot air.
Hey, he'd be getting new "Dick".
whirlwind
02 Jul 2004, 10:02 AM
If K goes to the Lakers, the Blue Devils will probably steal Tommy Amaker from Michigan. That would blow.
I had exactly the same thought.
AndyMead
02 Jul 2004, 10:43 AM
Why on earth would Shoe-Shesku want to leave Duke?
He's set for life in one of the greatest jobs a human can hold on this planet.
1) He's set for life. Period.
2) It used to be one of the greatest jobs. Top coaches are signing recruits who not only go pro after only one or two years, some are going pro before setting foot on campus at all.
3) Many of the players he does get are less and less about team than they used to be.
The fact is, at this point, Los Angeles is a new challenge. He has nothing left to prove at Duke, unless he wants to foster a personal war with Roy Williams and UNC. He's done it all. With the Lakers, he'll still get to teach, and he'll have - ironically - a more stable roster than college teams now have.
It's definitely a big story here in Durham.
GoDC
02 Jul 2004, 11:56 AM
I hope he goes and we can all laugh at him.
bungadiri
02 Jul 2004, 12:06 PM
Repeat after me: Steve Spurrier...
TheSlipperyOne
02 Jul 2004, 01:06 PM
Marc Stein gives his views:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&id=1833178
Pat Forde rings in:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=1833141
An article with what Pitino has to say:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=1833166
And of course Dicky V has to say something (I can't remeber the last time I've seen so many exclamation points):
http://espn.go.com/dickvitale/vcolumn040701vitalecoachkinla.html
GoDC
02 Jul 2004, 03:23 PM
One more that is the best.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/040702
Excape Goat
03 Jul 2004, 09:27 AM
The Lakers did this for kobe.
amerifolklegend
05 Jul 2004, 12:05 PM
Shoe-shesky turns it down.
Shocker. Absolute shocker.
I haven't been this shocked since the end of Rocky IV.
Jeff
05 Jul 2004, 01:25 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1834596
skipshady
05 Jul 2004, 07:33 PM
Lest we forget, this isn't the first time Mikey has flirted with the NBA. What was it, like 10 years ago? He had similarly serious discussions about coaching the Celtics. I really think he wants to be a pro coach, but he's become so big at Duke that he has to consider what he's giving up.
Mikey is the Shannon Tweed of basketball coaches. He's accomplished most everything one can achieve in soft core and he wants to do hard core because he knows there's more money and bigger challenges in hard core. But in the end, he understands that, in spite of all of the upsides at the next level, soft core is where he belongs.