If Doc goes to LA, I wish him nothing but the worst possible luck in all of his future professional endeavors.
Seems petty? Sue me.
I agree. I like Doc. I think he's done a nice job here. I think he's a top coach in the NBA. But I don't think he's gone so far and above his duty to the Celtics that we need to do him any favors. While we can look at everything he's done for the Celtics, we also have to look at what the Celtics gave him. He certainly made out pretty sweetly in 2008 being given three future Hall of Famers. Could every coach have done what he did? No. But others could have.
I guess another way of looking at it is this: he's not Bill Belichick. I mean if Brady got a career-ending injury today and it was clearly the Pats were going to stink for a long time, I could see Kraft doing B.B. a favor and letting him out of his contract to pursue another opportunity. After all, Belichick has turned the Patriots into best NFL team since of the new millennium and he went into his current contract under the assumption that Brady would be around awhile.
Doc on the other hand is a good, but not great, coach who won 1 title and had a good run. He didn't transform the Celtics franchise and he's not a career Celtic like a Tommy Heinsohn. In fact, the case could be made that the Celtics transformed him into the coach he is today. And he signed his new contract well aware of the rebuilding process (and was even quoted on it).
So if Doc wants to go and the C's find something amenable to them letting him go, that's great. But they shouldn't be cutting him any breaks or doing him any favors.
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