If your coach is in the front office........change teams

Ladies and gentleman, your new Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Kevin McHale? Yup, the same man who is slowly making the franchise irrelevant and building an all around NBA Live team equivalent to an AAU team, is moving down to the bench to be the head coach while still having a vested interest in front office decisions.

Unfortunately, this is just one instance in a trend for NBA franchises, you can't mix coaching duties with those of the front office. Living in Raleigh, I am a Charlotte Hornets (sorry "Bobcats", I forget that David Stern cares about fans as much as I do the WNBA) fan so we can start with them, the inaugural season Berrie Bickerstaff was hired as the first coach and gm and 5 years later he is not even in the same state as the 'Cats anymore. The thing is, he gets to leave, but I'm stuck watching a team full of irrelevant draft picks try to put a win streak of 2 together while they should be competing for a playoff spot in a weak conference and even weaker division.

Pat Riley is a legendary coach, but when he took on operations of team president and head coach, it just didn't work. He did win a championship stepping in at first, but even Bickerstaff could have coached that roster to a Ring. Plus, the 2008 team flopped worse than a Paulus defense. I do love Pat Riley and know he belongs involved with the league in some way or another, but you can't mix on court and front office decisions.

As bad as it is to try to follow the Bobcats, I am scared for every LA Clipper fan out there. I am scared there are going to go to the staples center, black out during one of their standard 4th quarter collapses, and wake up after successfully attacking Coach/GM Mike Dunleavy. This whole blog post could have been shortened by saying "don't have a head coach with front office responsibilities-----see Mike Dunleavy Sr. for more details." I don't watch many Clipper games but when on TNT, most of the fun for me is watching all the Clipper fans look like me when I saw my gpa after my first semester at college. Within a month of becoming general manager, Dunleavy managed to let an all star in Elton Brand leave and is sitting last in their division and 13 games back.

Could I be wrong about the McHale move to coach, of course, but only time will tell. Maybe its more of a punishment for his for trade last year and they are going to put him in one of those "where amazing happens commercials," only this one with a picture of him when he loses his first game and realizes how bad they really are.