Seven Seconds or Bust

Nothing like starting your work week off with a jolt, I suppose. Hollywood’s team is in the business of making headlines, and hiring Mike D’Antoni over presumed-favorite candidate Phil Jackson is just the latest move in Lakerland that will launch a thousand blog posts. Still, even if we as fans are conditioned to expect dramatic storylines and unforeseen plot-twists with this franchise, this decision has to rank as a true Shyamalan. So much for this being Big Chief Triangle’s “job to turndown” And so much for conventional thinking. On the surface, a typical observer would think that if you have someone with 11 rings ready to come back at guide your team, you don’t think twice about it. If you have a coaching vacancy, and you use a coach’s CV as the determining factor in hiring decision, when Phil Jackson is available and interested, that is the play. Period. There simply is no other equally qualified candidate alive where past success is concerned. If you were hoping to commissio...