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Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show. It's the answer I am your host Chris Ryan.

And this week we are asking the question, what if Kyrie Irving was right?

Perentities about coaching. I think that we could still probably find some issues. Some of Kyrie's

takes in the past, but I was thinking about this Kyrie Irving. You guys remember in October

when Kyrie were talking about maybe we don't need a coach. Maybe Steve Nash is going to be more

of a collaborator with me in Kevin Durant. Maybe sometimes Jacques Vaughn will call plays. Maybe

I'll call plays. Maybe I'm the coach tonight. Maybe Katie's the coach tonight. And I was thinking

about this with Ryan Saunders firing in Minnesota over the past weekend. Chris Finch took over

for Ryan Saunders. And I think for I would honestly say like 80% of people who are basketball fans.

Maybe less. They don't know who either of those guys are. They've never heard of Ryan Saunders.

They've never heard of Chris Finch. No disrespect to either of their their CVs, any of their

accomplishments. It's not about that. It's really more about the personalities. And I kind of

was combining those two stories. I was thinking back to what Kyrie was saying October. I was thinking

about what happened with Minnesota this week. And I started wondering whether or not we're exiting

the era of the big name coach. Whether the the the era that I grew up in in the 90s where it seemed

like every other team had this sort of outsized huge character who had been with the team for

more than five years and who completely defined the style of play whether it's Phil Jackson,

the triangle or Pat Riley and Ardeno's defense or Don Nelson and Nelly Ball. And there are all

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