Rick Pitino pursues NBA job, no way
August 14, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under NBA Basketball, sacramento-kings
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The word is that Rick Pitino is a mess and just keeps on going like nothing happened. You, of course, must know about the scandal he was involved in with the blonde who later tried to extort money from him, but that is not the only story from a guy writing self help books to help others when it appears he is a mess himself.
Rick Pitino wants back in the NBA
It seems that Rick surrounds himself with men that could be labeled henchmen or roadies that make every stay he has a crazy time. He swears to respect basketball, but many suspect he does not even respect himself. He destroyed the Boston Celtics and then left town. They took a long time to recover. Now it looks like he will leave Louisville for a job at Sacramento if they will have him. The question will be if Rick will have them after they hire him.
This is how it works with Pitino, and this is the reason he’ll never again get offered anything but a lousy NBA job for a lousy franchise. Privately, his employees called him King Lear (as well as “The Aging Prom Queen”) when he was with the Boston Celtics. He had a fiefdom of sham basketball minds and cronies who took over the Celtics and bombarded general manager Chris Wallace daily with insane and ill-informed trade proposals.
Only now, no GM wants Pitino. Why take the chance of him undermining them? Why waste money hiring all his buddies?
Pitino promised the Kings that he could fit his ego into a franchise’s front-office framework, but it was hard to believe. He didn’t want to be emperor anymore, just a coach. If he just wanted to coach, Pitino could be good in the NBA. He did an excellent job in his two seasons with the New York Knicks in the late 1980s, and terrific work his first season with the Boston Celtics. But this was long ago in the NBA.
Can the Sacramento Kings be this desperate to hire Rick Pitino and his gang? Only in the NBA.
Image: Zuma Press
As always, any NBA Basketball related comments are welcome.
More blogs about basketball.
As always, any NBA Basketball related comments are welcome.
More blogs about basketball.
