WSJ ARTICLE: The Magic's Coach Just Looks Ordinary

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http://online.wsj.com/article/...450030598195757.html

 

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Baseball managers dress in baggy uniforms and caps, while football coaches wear layers of team-logoed sweaters, zippered jackets and head gear. Aside from the colors, they all look alike. Only basketball coaches are allowed to dress in their own distinct styles and present their own unfettered personalities to national audiences.

 

With his trademark Armani suits and what Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan called "Gordon Gekko hair," Pat Riley -- who coached for 24 years with the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat -- has always looked like he stepped off the cover of GQ magazine, which he often graced. The tastefully conservative Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs has the air of an intelligence expert, which he very nearly became after graduating from the Air Force Academy. Zen devotee Phil Jackson of the Los Angeles Lakers often changes his hair and clothing styles to force the media to use recent photographs of him (last September he suddenly appeared without the mustache he had worn for years).

 

[ma 6]

http://online.wsj.com/article/...450030598195757.html

 

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Baseball managers dress in baggy uniforms and caps, while football coaches wear layers of team-logoed sweaters, zippered jackets and head gear. Aside from the colors, they all look alike. Only basketball coaches are allowed to dress in their own distinct styles and present their own unfettered personalities to national audiences.

 

With his trademark Armani suits and what Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan called "Gordon Gekko hair," Pat Riley -- who coached for 24 years with the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat -- has always looked like he stepped off the cover of GQ magazine, which he often graced. The tastefully conservative Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs has the air of an intelligence expert, which he very nearly became after graduating from the Air Force Academy. Zen devotee Phil Jackson of the Los Angeles Lakers often changes his hair and clothing styles to force the media to use recent photographs of him (last September he suddenly appeared without the mustache he had worn for years).

 

[ma 6]

They call Stan a "working class hero" :-)

[MilitaryMagic 0]

I like the article. I think Mike Breen referenced this article during the telecast tonight.

[ma 6]

that's where i heard about it and decided to look it up

 

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Originally posted by MilitaryMagic:

I like the article. I think Mike Breen referenced this article during the telecast tonight.

[Skywise316 211]

I'd like to ask Allen Barra how Stan Van Gundy's [bleep] taste??