Coaches are hired to be fired, or so goes the famous basketball adage.
When management wants to change the facade of a disappointing season, it’s usually through the sidelines, where all the coaches reside. The reasoning is rather simple: it all boils down to finances. Players, as a collective, are paid a hefty amount of money to win basketball games, or for the unluckier fanbases, the services they render. They’re paid so well that it requires a certain set of rules — the collective bargaining agreement — to regulate it.
Prior to the new CBA, the average player was paid somewhere around $6 million.