When it comes to the most famous head coach in the NBA, many fans must first think of "Zen master" Phil Jackson, "Cardinal" Auerbach, Pat Riley or Popovich. But there's a head coach in the U.S., even higher than the ones mentioned above, who is known as the "purest" basketball head coach, and he's Mike Shashevsky, the head coach of the American Dream Team and The Duke, or you can call him "Coach Old K."
Counting this year, coach K has been coaching The Blue Devil Duke for 42 years, for example, if a person starts working at 18 and doesn't retire until he's 60. Supporting the old K coach to be able to stick to it at Duke University, in addition to love, I really can't think of other words to describe it. However, according to ESPN reporters, the old K coach will retire completely at the end of the season. So, I don't know if you have ever thought of a question, why does the old K coach never coach the NBA with more exposure and commercialization? These three aspects, I am afraid, can give you the answer.
First of all, the first point is undoubtedly the financial aspect. Although the old K coach loves basketball, but people can't use love to generate electricity, the reason why the old K coach has been willing to stay in Duke, instead of going to the NBA, is because Duke University gave him a salary, far more than the NBA! Take the 13-14 season as an example, when the salary of the old K coach reached 9.68 million US dollars, and the salary of the highest-paid head coach in the NBA that year was 7 million US dollars, so i guess the fool also knows which side is highly paid and where to work! Therefore, the salary is undoubtedly the biggest reason why the old K coach is reluctant to leave Duke.
In addition to more money, there is less basketball in college! Anyone who has watched the NBA knows that every year the NBA regular season 82 games, if the playoffs are played to the end will be in July, almost a year from the start of the regular season in October to the end of the Finals in July, the real time to rest is 3 months. College basketball is different, not only is the schedule not so tense, but it will not fly to the road game on two ends of the three days, and have much more rest time than the NBA.
In addition to the third point: unlike the old ballworms who have entered the society for many years in the NBA, the NCAA teams are all children who are still in college, and their hearts are purer than those of NBA players, compared to today's player who wants to get a big contract and tomorrow's player who wants to renew his contract, whether it is managed or the team locker room, it is ten thousand times easier than the NBA, and there are few locker room conflicts or scandals in the general college locker room. In addition, compared to the NBA, everything is based on profit, the relationship between management and the coaching staff is sometimes tense, and if you are not careful, you will have to roll up and leave, and the management of college basketball is more pure and easier to get along with.
Therefore, compared with the NBA, the old K coach coach coaching at Duke University not only has more money and less trouble, but also the people who cooperate and the players underneath are more pure, and the Lakers and the Nets also threw an olive branch to the old K coach that year, but they were flatly rejected by the old K coach. In this case, it is a bit silly to go to the NBA with a hard scalp. Of course, the happiest thing about the old K coach is undoubtedly to see his disciples shine in the NBA one by one, whether it is the 19 years of Duke Sanshao, or Irving, Tatum, these players also express their gratitude to the old K coach in the future, I am afraid that this is the biggest motivation for the old K coach to be willing to stay in Duke all the time. （ikuet）