Is Green the lowest paid head coach in the NBA?

It should be Doc Rivers.

That dude owes all of his money to KG

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Fire Willie, hire Dan Hurley.

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Hurley makes 5M a year and just got an almost 2M bonus for winning the title. It would probably take 8M+ to get him and at least 4 years if not 5.

So you'd give Hurley a 5y/45M deal?

Green made less than 5M the past 3 years. Maybe that was due to having to pay off Van Gundy. But are they able to spend that much on a coach? There might be a budgetary limit.

I really am curious if anyone has a list (even if it's just projections)..

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In the words of Shel, it ain’t my money so who cares

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They obviously couldn't or didn't want to pay more for a coach in the previous search. So they went with a young, unproven coach who they could sign for limited years at a super low salary. Do we know that they can spend like a top 10 team, which would require them to spend well over 5M a year and guarantee 4-5 years? It's a big step up.

The reality is that we have the lowest paid coach in the league. He's gotten better each year and got us to almost 50 wins. We can probably extend him 1-2 years at about 3M/year. Or we would have to possibly more than triple that for a more proven coach. Which is fine. But that coach would have to be expected to win 55-60 games to justify that type of investment. I don't see a college coach having that much impact. It would be tough for any other coach to live up to that..

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Pretty sure Willie's low pay had to do with his lack of experience and the fact we were still paying Gentry and Van Gundy when we hired him.

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That makes sense. But shouldn't expectations be in line with that?

If you look at Willie’s results in context(Byron Scott, Monty, Gentry,
Van Gundy), he’s been successful.

Oops, I forgot about Paul Silas! lol

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Van Gundy was supposed to be at 5M and Gentry was 3.5M, from what I could find. Could Green really be that low?

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Van Gundy and Gentry both were experienced head coaches. Willie was a rookie with limited assistant coaching experience. Duh.

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Don’t know or care.

Fire Griff, hire Bob Myers.
Fire Willie, hire Dan Hurley.

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Dan Hurley seems to love coaching college and he's now the king. I doubt he would give that up for the NBA.

Bob Myers on the other hand, throw the fricking bag at him and make him say no.

Hard to imagine Bob Meyers would ever consider the Pels. Gail's pockets aren't on the same level as Lacob's. Meyers is unlikely to be interested in a job he'd have to try ducking the tax each year.