Paul Pierce: Phoenix Suns’ Kevin Durant is’ Coach killer ‘

The second spring is on us and Phoenix Suns They fired another main coach – this time before the rabbit jumped.

After the first time after five years went 36-46 and missed the playoffs, Phoenix Failed Main Coach Mike Budenholzer On Monday, which followed only one year after releasing Frank Vogel after just one season at work. Furthermore, Vogel was hired after the Suns fired Monty Williams after the 1923 playoffs, Kevin DurantFirst run of playoffs with franchise.

Given the constant changes of coach Suns, Durant became a “coach killer?”

“I hate to say that, not in a negative way, but he is really (coach killer),” Paul Pierce said about Durant on Monday on the edition “Speak. “” But it comes with guys like KD, because when you have a KD KD guy like him and LeBron (James)Expectations come with them, so as a coach, if you do not meet these expectations, you are always in a hot seat. And that’s why you saw so many different coaches for Lebron and also KD, but there are only a few guys you can put in that category, and these two guys are. He is definitely a coach killer. ”

“Expectations come, right, because of who KD is where if they do not perform at a particular level, then they bring someone else. This is what it is.”

Durant, double Nba Final MVP, four-time scoring champion and 11-put All-Nba Honorea, was on average 26.6 points per game of this season, while fired 52.7/43.0/83.9 in what he was 17 in sports.

The sun was acquired by the durant of Brooklyn Nets Before the NBA 2023 trade deadline in what was one of the biggest moves in the League history. Phoenix sent forward Mikal Bridges,, Cameron Johnson and CrowderFour unprotected choices in the first round and replacement of the first round in a four -team store. For perspectives, networks traded bridges to New York Knicks For four unprotected choices in the first round and five total first rounds, among other things, 16 months later.

They continued to lose the sun in the semi -final circle of the Western Conference playoffs, released Williams, and then fired Vogel after swallowing it in the first round of the 2024 playoffs. Budenholzer (Milwaukee Bucks 2021.) and Vogel (Los Angeles Lakers 2020) Each won the NBA Championship as the main coaches before taking over the sun.

Before arriving in Phoenix, Nets had four different main coaches with Durant: Kenny Atkinson, Steve Nash and Jacque Vaughn (twice). Durant never played for Atkinson, who was released during the 2019-20 season in that first season of Durant in Brooklyn, but saw that he did not play because of the recovery from the torn Achilles tendon suffered in the 2019 NBA final.

Before Durant’s three -year stay with Golden State Warriors (2016-17 to 2018-19), who had and still had Steve Kerra as his main coach, Seattle Supersonics/Oklahoma City Thunder They had three main coaches with Durant: PJ Carlesimo, Scott Brooks and Billy Donovan.

Durant, which will be 37 at the beginning of the NBA season 2025-26, enters the last season of a four-year contract from $ 194 million. Allegedly expected sunny Listen to trade offers For the future hall of the celebrity this arrival of the off -season.

Durant is eighth in NBA/Abba History with 30,571 career points.

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