Mike D’Antoni was named the NBA’s Coach of the Year, which was announced on the TNT awards show Monday night.
D’Antoni led the Rockets to the third-best record in the Western Conference at 55-27 in his first year with the club. The Rockets finished 41-41 in 2015/16. He also won the award in 2005 when he patrolled the sidelines for the Suns.
The Spurs’ Gregg Popovich and Heat’s Erik Spoelstra were the other finalists. The Hoops Rumors staff gave two of the five votes to D’Antoni.
How the hell was Spoelstra a candidate over Brad Stevens?
Sporlstra led the heat to one of the best records in the NBA the second half of the season despite not having a superstar (Whiteside top 25 player but not a superstar) and two of their best players missing significant time (Justise Winslow missed most of season + Dion Waiters missed a lot of games towards the end)
But Brad Stevens took a team with no superstar to the #1 seed in the eastern conference……
Lol @ the lakers