Phoenix Suns rookie coach Igor Kokoskov just finished his first NBA training camp as the head coach, the Grand Poobah, the Big Cheese, but he’s no wide-eyed rookie. This is his 19th season participating on some level in coaching one of these 4-day minicamps.
Contrast that to former coaches Earl Watson and Jeff Hornacek’s first camp as the Honcho . They’d only been part of running these camps as a player development coach for a season or two on their respective staffs.
Igor, on the other hand, has been part of 18 NBA camps before this one, plus running 10 years of National Team camps oversees (Serbia and Montenegro, Republic of Georgia, Slovenia).