Marc J. Spears joins Rachel Nichols and Richard Jefferson on The Jump to discuss Doc Rivers taking the Philadelphia 76ers’ head-coaching job after parting ways with the LA Clippers, and what the NBA is doing to address diversity among its head coaches.
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Rick Sanchez
October 6, 2020 at 12:09 am
percentage of african-american player in NBA is 74.4% and they talk about diversity? talk about selfish
Isidro Vargas
October 6, 2020 at 12:10 am
I love Adam silver but you give liberals an inch they gonna come for the touchdown. Where’s the diversity among players. White boys can jump to.
Nora Madden Henley Carey
October 6, 2020 at 12:16 am
Fantastic 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️
Trae Fittz
October 6, 2020 at 12:22 am
That’s exactly why they hired doc Rivers so quickly over Mike D’Antoni 🏆👌🏾
Colin
October 6, 2020 at 12:27 am
All for diversity, but if you are going to make claims for it within certain professions at least be logical.
Ulquiorra Cifer
October 6, 2020 at 12:27 am
Doesn’t matter, I’m an Indian and I don’t complain when I don’t see Indian players in the NBA.
2 Cents
October 6, 2020 at 12:30 am
I mean the 2 head coaches in the NBA finals aren’t black…
J J
October 6, 2020 at 12:33 am
This narrative is getting out of hands!
John Lawrence
October 6, 2020 at 12:33 am
Go woke, and go broke!
HoopDini
October 6, 2020 at 12:39 am
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Jeff Heinzel
October 6, 2020 at 12:45 am
Where’s the diversity in in the player lines up? Beyond racist!
Michaelveli7
October 6, 2020 at 12:53 am
The dislikes have spoken once again ESPISSN
AlexandreG
October 6, 2020 at 12:55 am
wait, last time I checked 70% of NBA players are black, a community that represents 14% of america. Isn’t this what the snowflakes consider “racism”? Ohhh, it’s just when the favoured majority isn’t black, ok, I get it!
Zoro D. Uchiha
October 6, 2020 at 12:56 am
Here we go again.
Hire coaches for abilities and not race.
zach h
October 6, 2020 at 1:00 am
Welcome to 2020 everyone where you can openly advocate for NBA coaches to be hired based on their race rather then their accolades and experience.
Ivaylo Iontchev
October 6, 2020 at 1:10 am
It’s not about diversity. It’s about quality. You can’t social engineer this.
Jeff
October 6, 2020 at 1:27 am
Considering that there are more Whites and Browns in America, why is the diversity in the player ranks? Where is that convo? LOL at how gullible white liberals are falling for this “We NEED more Black people! scam thats been going on since May 25. Just remember, without white money the NBA is the WNBA
Hoze / Soothing
October 6, 2020 at 1:35 am
imagine a world where you pick your coach depending on their skills.
half of the nba coachs will not be in there
I'm back
October 6, 2020 at 1:35 am
Mark Spears probably blames racism for Woj being way up ahead of him on the totem pole as an insider. I remember when they were both at Yahoo, Woj left him in the dust
Tha Mecca Don
October 6, 2020 at 1:52 am
Where is Iverson jersey
mJosh Wright
October 6, 2020 at 1:56 am
We need more Inuit power forwards.
Ben From the Bunker
October 6, 2020 at 1:59 am
A coach has to have head coaching experience. That’s why Steve Kerr turned out so badly in Golden State, Spoelstra in Miami, and Phil Jackson in Chicago. Maybe looking beyond the “obvious” choices isn’t a bad thing.
Dacien Lewis
October 6, 2020 at 2:18 am
Smith needs to chill Sam doesn’t have a head coaching job for a reason shut up
Abu Yusuf Abdul Hakim
October 6, 2020 at 2:27 am
This whole discussion is problematic. To a certain extent it’s difficult to evaluate coaches’ performance because there are so many factors involved: roster, injuries, playoff matchups, etc. So a lot of time it’s reputation, how they fit in with management, who the players prefer, etc. So saying “it should just be the best coach” and “only talent matters” is naive.
Similarly, promoting the hiring of coaches (or GMs) based on race is also a problem, specially at the NBA level, because a bad coach hire can really hurt your team. And if you happen to have hired someone because you thought hiring a black coach would be good PR, you may really hurt your team, waste your players’ best years and lose your fan base.
And there are clearly double standards in this racism talk. I think it was Perk that called out the hiring of Thibs, even though Thibs was the architect of the defence that won the Celtics the title, took Chicago to the conference finals, and took the Wolves to their only playoffs since KG left. Certainly not a failed white coach, but a pretty successful one. Similarly, Atkinson in Brooklyn walked out before he was pushed out, and the Knicks guy was also kicked out. Both white, both overachieved, both unwanted. Certainly seem to have done more than Lloyd Pierce has done with the Hawks (although it’s not Lloyd’s fault that Trae Young is sooooo overrated). So I’m not sure whether the argument that McMillan getting fired can really be seen in such a negative way.
We need to think what other factors may be at play. Doc’s failure to deal with tension amongst teammates (Rondo vs Allen; CP3 vs Griffin; the tensions this season), yet be hired to coach a team who’s superstars don’t appear to be on the same page raises lots of questions. Just like Nash’s hiring raises questions. But most other coaching moves make sense, let’s face it.
Alex D
October 6, 2020 at 2:51 am
You know whats NOT needed in any workplace? Mandatory diversity.
Let your merits do the talking