Showing posts with label Kevin McHale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin McHale. Show all posts

March 28, 2014

Still Valuable: The greatest ever players without an MVP award



Here is an ode to the 10 greatest players in NBA history who never won an MVP award. While these greats have never collected the Maurice Podoloff trophy (named in honour of the NBA’s first commissioner), they have done enough to write their names among NBA legends and proven that they were still valuable to the league and their teams.

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March 25, 2013

Healthy Body; Healthy Minds: Best NBA Players turned Coaches


Being an NBA Head Coach is a terribly competitive job, and holding one of those 30 available positions is definitely a rare honour for those in the basketball coaching profession. But is it necessary to have NBA experience to be an NBA Head Coach? Common knowledge says no; a lot of big name coaches, such as Gregg Popovich and Larry Brown have been successful in recent years without playing a minute in the NBA. But if you look at the list of the current 30 head coaches today, you’ll notice that 19 of them – over 63 percent – have had NBA playing experience.

In no particular order, here are the top five players-turned-coaches.

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