OKC Thunder: 10 NBA assistant coaches to consider hiring

OKC Thunder head coach search: Rick Carlisle and assistants of Dallas Mavericks. (Photo by Ashley Landis-Pool/Getty Images)

As the OKC Thunder continues their hunt for a new head coach 10 assistants offer up potential to consider.

In the NBA, a small market has unique challenges that impact both roster and executive management compilation. As such who Sam Presti taps to fill the OKC Thunder head coach vacancy will take those factors into consideration.

Over the course of the dozen years of the franchise, three men held the head coach position. P.J. Carlesimo began the inaugural season but 13 games into the season he was replaced. Scott Brooks took over for the remainder of the 2008-09 season…