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Phoenix Suns Fire Coach Alvin Gentry

 

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The Phoenix Suns have started the 2012-2013 season 13-28 after losing MVP point guard Steve Nash to the Los Angeles Lakers in the off season. The Suns were hoping the additions of Michael Beasley and Goran Dragic would at least help them stay around the .500 mark.

With the Suns in the midst of losing 13 out of their last 15 games at home and holding the worst record in the Western Conference, the team made the move to fire their head coach Alvin Gentry.

Gentry took over the team in 2009 at the All Star game when Terry Porter was relieved of his duties. Gentry in his first full season as coach guided the team to the Western Conference finals. However after that, the team couldn’t reach that same level of success, and was never able to find another player to team along side Steve Nash.

Alvin Gentry released a statement.

“After nine years with the Suns, the organization and I came to a mutual agreement to go in different directions, I have the utmost respect for Robert and what he’s done with the organization. It’s unfortunate that I was unable to accomplish what I set out to do here.

Suns VP of basketball operations Lon Babby complimented his former coach as being a good coach and good person.

“Alvin Gentry is a good coach and a good person, he was the perfect coach for our previous group. But with the current group, all of us, including Alvin himself, realized that it just wasn’t working, the pieces just weren’t fitting.”

The truth about the Suns right now is, they don’t have the talent to compete with the best of the best in the Western Conference, they have some nice complimentary pieces, but they are lacking that one player who can put the team on their back. While this method of building a team in the NBA is painful, it’s the way it is, you have to be real bad, and hope you get that game changing player in the draft, or that a player is willing to take less to play on your squad. Also ownership has to be willing to spend the money when the time comes, if not, your team if fighting an uphill battle.

Source ESPN

 

(Video) New NBA Commercial With Chris Paul and Magic Johnson

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The NBA has released another commercial produced by the great Spike Lee. This one includes Chris Paul, Steve Nash and Magic Johnson.

It displays Chris Paul’s speed, and him leaving his man in a cloud of dust. I find it hilarious that Steve Nash is in the commercial just watching Chris Paul, considering that when he guards him, that’s usually what happens.

You can watch the new 30 second spot below.

Steve Nash Becomes 5th Player to Achieve 10,000 Assist

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Tuesday January 8 against the Houston Rockets Steve Nash became 5th all time on the assist list as well as being the only the 5th player all time to notch 10,000 assist.

Nash over has a career average of 8.6 assist per game and had led the league in assist 6 times, finishing top 5 in assist 9 times total.

He’s had no less than 600 total assist in a season side 2003-2003 when he accumulated 598.

Nash is only behind Jason Kidd (#2, 11,969) and John Stockton (#1,15,806).

Steve Nash ranks number 2 among active players.

Below is a list of the top ten in assist all time.

1 John Stockton 15,806
2 Jason Kidd 11,969
3 Mark Jackson 10,334
4 Magic Johnson 10,141
5 Steve Nash 10,005
6 Oscar Robertson 9,887
7 Isiah Thomas 9,061
8 Gary Payton 8,966
9 Rod Strickland 7,987
10 Andre Miller 7,683

Lakers Hire Mike D’Antoni as New Head Coach

The Los Angeles Lakers ended their coaching search and hired former Knicks and Suns coach Mike D’Antoni.

The speculation had been the Lakers first choice was Phil Jackson, but after he didn’t offer an initial yes, they went on to interview D’Antoni and Mike Dunleavy.

Late Sunday evening, early Monday morning they called Phil Jackson to inform him they had made their decision to go D’Antoni as their new coach.

D’Antoni as head coach of the Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks has led his teams to the playoffs 5 times out of his 10 years averaging almost 55 wins in those playoff years.

D’Antoni is known as an offensive guru, which was on display during his time in Phoenix as his system allowed current Laker point guard Steve Nash to become a two time MVP. D’Antoni will look to bring an open court free flowing offense to LA to maximize the talent on the current roster.

D’Antoni is expected to join the team towards the end of the week as he recovers from knee surgery.

H/T CBS Sports

Steve Nash Out at Least a Week with Leg Fracture

The Lakers are 0-3 and the problems are starting to mount as Steve Nash will be out at least a week with a leg fracture at the top of his fibula.

The Lakers were already fighting a battle of trying to install a new offense with new personell, this injury definitely doesn’t help that cause.

We’ll see how long Nash is out, he’s up there in age, and when you get older, injuries take a little longer to heal.

Considering he has a fractured bone, who know how long it’ll take to heal, and what kind of pain hell be in if he comes back too early.