It’s rumored Scoot Brooks has been offered the head coaching job of the Washington Wizards for a reported $7 million a year deal. This would put Brooks as one of the top seven paid coaches in the NBA. It’s been reported Ernie Grunfield visited Brooks in California and offered him the job.
I like Scott Brooks. I would have preferred he came back for this last season and I think he got a bit of a raw deal because basically his entire team was injured last season.
This is a great podcast with Brooks being interviewed by Chris Mannix on The Vertical about two months ago. I don’t really see this giving the Wizards any kind of an edge in the signing of Kevin Durant for the simple reason if Kevin Durant had told Sam Presti he wanted Brooks back–Scott Brooks would have been retained.
That’s something our local media (the Prestettes) haven’t really written about. Namely—did Durant and Westbrook give Presti the thumbs up to fire Scott Brooks. Given the entire Thunder organization licks Durant and Westbrooks’ toes before they go to bed—common sense would say…’Yes, they were okay with Scott Brooks being let go.’
I see virtually no difference in the team, except the team is weaker defensively. But again, that could be more from Perk being gone and not cussing the two stars routinely for their half assed defense at times.
Best of luck to Scott Brooks. Seems like a very nice guy.
Here’s the link to the podcast.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-vertical-pod-with-chris-mannix–scott-brooks-144203669.html
Let’s put this on here, too. Scott Brooks’ exit press conference with the Thunder last April after the team missed the playoffs. I’m envious of Scott Brooks. He’s done something which is on my Bucket List. Namely—he lived with Charles Barkley when he was a rookie for my Philly Sixers. That’s on the podcast above. But here’s Brooks sounding like he was going to be back as the Thunder coach.
Trivia question: Brooks was a backup point guard. Who was he backing up his rookie season in Philly? Clue…one of my favorite all-time Sixers who helped Dr. J finally win his ring.