The lack of diversity at the head coaching position in the MBA?

Well, it's a huge problem.

And no, I'm just trying to be cool.

And it it really bothers me.

And I don't really want to explode, because that's just kind of productive with something like this.

But it deserves an explosion.

And I'll tell you why.

The league is almost 75% black.

You have coaches like Mike D'Antoni and Mike D'Antoni should be a head coach in this league.

I guess I'm not here.

The denigrate him in any way.

But he did have a chance in Phoenix.

Houston, L.

A.

New York?

Um, he's never been to an MBA Finals, and you already heard his name.

If it wasn't for Doc Rivers getting fired by the Los Angeles Clippers or mutually agreeing to part ways, whatever you want to believe, understand that Mike D'Antoni would be named the next head coach of the Philadelphia 76 is That's what they were about to do until Doc Rivers lost his job in Los Angeles.

And the question is why Mark Jackson hasn't received the call.

Alvin Gentry is in New Orleans, and you look at the number of games guys missed due to injury and things of that nature.

Um, Anthony Davis wanted to leave town, etcetera, etcetera.

But now David Griffin comes in there and Alvin Gentry has to go.

Okay, And everybody respects Alvin Gentry.

We know he can Coach Nate McMillan get loses the job in Indiana.

I wasn't mad about that because, you know, I know that he went home in the first round four consecutive years, but but Victor Oladipo had been out pretty much the last, you know last year, and then this year he wasn't 100%.

But the point is, I wanted to see Nate McMillan in a bigger market.

Here's why.

I'm sad, guys.

You know why I'm really sad because Adam Silver is the one up there addressing this issue.

Where are the players?

Wasn't these the same players that took a knee?

Wasn't it the same players that wanted to bring attention?

Two rogue actions by law enforcement officials and systemic racism wasn't the Weren't these the same players that contemplated boycotting games or not participating in the bubble?

Wasn't this them?

Wasn't this the same group of players that talked about really not needing the play because we really, really needed to focus on these issues.

You don't even have stuff together in your own damn house.

But you talk about cleaning somebody else's house everywhere but in your house where you have black coaches.

Damn, they're becoming an endangered species.

You have nothing to say.

I ask you are you are somewhat a rhetorical question.

Both Max and Mollie.

I ask you both.

When have you seen black players speaking on behalf of black coaches?

Take your time.

I'll wait because I haven't seen it.

I'm gonna get with you all every day.

I haven't seen it.

Where the hell are they?

You have nothing to say, your basketball players, highly intelligent individuals that have compassion and conscience and heart.

There is no question about that.

I'm not question any of that, but your expertise are not about law enforcement official.

Your expertise about are not about systemic racism and all over corporate America, all of this place, all of these other places, your expertise is in a sport of basketball and black men who coach in this league are marginalized, minimized.

You know that stripped of power where we said that there are nine blacks that are executives, supposedly, but only one calls his own shots in Messiah Jerry and he works in another country where the black players take your time.

I'll wind go ahead.

Max and Stephen A.

He's he's African and now in Canada, but not African American, right?

So even the one guy calling his own shots is not African American.

That speaks as much to what this country has done to African Americans as it does to the hiring practices of the N.

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Let me say this.

First of all, I am sorry that you are so upset by this that you feel like you practically have to take a Xanax in order to talk about it, because that's what it felt like.

You have to calm yourself all the way down, Um, and in terms of players like guys like Andre Iguodala were resistant to.

A white coach replaced the black coach when Steve Kerr replaced Mark Jackson.

But Curse seemed to win him over eventually.

And that's part of the issue because, you know, I expect Steve Nash to be loved by his team and to do a really good job, and there's nothing wrong with Steve Nash or the fact that he's white.

The question is, why do so many more white people get the opportunity than black people in the league?

That's three quarters black, right?

And certainly like white American.

How many?

How much of the n b a.

People with experience actually playing the game on that level, our European American in particular, right from the United States?

That percentage is actually quite small, and this goes back to the history of our country and why it just sits the wrong way.

With so many, including me ownership white we go all the way back to the beginning.

Management white.

The help is black labor is African American, but very rarely as a percentage of the population in management or ownership positions.

And here we see preferences doesn't mean that owners are racist, but personal preferences skewing market forces.

In other words, you would think if you shut off disproportionately one part of the population from jobs, the job won't be done as well, because the pool of riel realistic potential applicants to that job is shrunk right, And so it won't be done as well.

So why would a team that wants to be competitive?

Why would they accept that?

That's because off, I think, personal preferences of ownership and management, which which tends to be largely white.

Does that mean they don't like black people know it means that when they interview people for the job, they like the cut of this guy's jib because in some ways they can relate to it more.

And I think that's what we're experiencing in the n.

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A.

I'll bet you this much, Stephen A.

Adam Silver said.

There, six unfilled jobs, right?

You think he may be making some phone calls to some teams and saying, Can you look at some black?

I don't think candidates for this job Maybe, maybe not.

I think Doc Rivers, like I said, it will be five head coaches cause I think Doc Rivers will have a job by this weekend.

I predicted.

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