Dunlap Will Not Return as Head Coach of Charlotte Bobcats Charlotte Bobcats President of Basketball Operations Rod Higgins announced today that the team has relieved Mike Dunlap of his duties as head coach. The search for his successor will begin immediately. “Rich Cho and I conducted our season-ending review and met with Coach Dunlap to reflect on this season. As an organization, it was decided that we needed to make a change with the head coach position,” Higgins said. “We want to thank Mike for his contribution and wish him the best in his future endeavors.” Dunlap was hired as the fifth head coach in franchise history on June 20, 2012 and posted an overall record of 21-61.
Byron Scott would be nice for them or just go for some young up and coming assistant or college coach. They have nice and young talent. They shouldn't be this bad.
Bobcats need to keep tanking for one more season so they can have a very large chance of getting Wiggins.
It wasn't the W/L record, I'm guessing they observed him all season and concluded he wasn't a legit NBA coach. There may have been other issues with players besides the Ben Gordon blowup.
I think you might see Stern force Jordan's hand to sell them off to the Seattle group, sell the Kings to the new group to stay in Sacramento, and move the New Orleans Pelicans to the Eastern Conference. The Bobcats have become a straight up embarrasement to the NBA, and dont think for a second the league office doesn't want to take action. Only issue would be the precident it sets with forcing the hand of their ownership. Still Jordan bought the team at 175 million and would be getting 357 million back from his return on investment. For those of you who can't do math, that's more DOUBLE what he paid for the team.
While I'd like to believe your theory, I simply can't - for one reason and one reason alone: Jordan made Stern more money than ANY OTHER PLAYER in NBA history.
I never understood why they hired Mike Dunlap in the first place. Never hire a college coach in his first year in the NBA. Let them get experience as an NBA assistant first. The Hornets, I mean the Bobcats should go after the lead assistant coach from the Spurs, Mike Budenholzer.
An incident which points to the fact that MJ should fire himself first. He was the one who traded for Gordon and the organization was the one that refused to suspend him after the incident, even though it clearly called for it. Firing Dunlap one year in is laughable, imo. MJ's been on the clock how many years? 2012 a little undecided still. MKG may very well be solid, but MJ certainly had the opportunity to trade back, or just take, Beal, Waiters, Lillard, Barnes, Drummond... all of whom as of this point in time look as good or better picks. 2011. Kemba Walker isn't a horrible pick. But I'd rather have Klay Thompson, or Kawhi Leonard, or Vucevic, or Kenneth Faried. Also used cap space to trade for Bismack Biyombo. And Bismack is still crazy young - only 20 still. But he's a long long long way from being the Serge Ibaka type they hoped for. 2010. I believe this was the pick they traded in 2008 for that year's number 20 pick, Alexis Ajinca. Yikes! 2009. Gerald Henderson. Some (meaningfully) better players were picked later, though. Not that every GM/scout is perfect all the time. The Thunder selected Cole Aldrich. But to be so generally wrong so often, it's embarrassing for him (MJ). Throw in trades to acquire Gordon, Tyrus Thomas (they STILL owe a first round pick out of this one, which eventually becomes unprotected btw. ... long post about something i don't really care about. here's why Dunlap was fired: http://www.nba.com/bobcats/2012-13-bobcats-roster Those were his players
Agreed MJ should fire himself. The franchise should be taken away from him, sold to someone competent and moved to a city that wants NBA basketball. I think the Walker/Biyombo draft was very bad. Kemba Walker is nothing more than a small butterfly floating around the court without PG skills or a killer jumpshot. Regarding Biyombo, I'll say this for the umpteenth time: Anyone who thought he was similar to Ibaka is just ignorant. There are videos of Ibaka shooting long jumpers in games 3 years prior to coming to the NBA. He wasn't some major project without any offensive skills like Biyombo. The only similarities they have are being athletic and from the same country. Prior to the NBA, they exhibited very different skillsets. At the time, I said drafting those two was a killer mistake by Richard Cho. MKG is a work in progress. I don't foresee him developing the way many here believed. Now that he's had a year to see what it's all about, we'll get a better idea of where he's going.
