It is a brutal business. It always has a brutal business. Red Holzman won 613 games with the Knicks. He won two titles here. And yet, a time came after the loss of consecutive seasons in 1976 and ’77, when he was pushed up, to the main office, and Willis Reed received the job without a minute of previous experience in training.
Red was too worthy to say anything while his former captain was in the bank, but when he was asked to return less than two seasons later, he had some ironic observations about the business he had chosen.
“I am not a smarter coach today than yesterday,” said Holzman. “And I don’t think it’s more silly in my last years than when we had winning records.”
Apparently, Michael Malone became much more silly on Tuesday than he had been in the almost nine years he had previously trained to Nuggets, even even an NBA title two years ago. It was in the same way that Taylor Jenkins became much more silly last week in Memphis, when he was canned after most of the six years in which he had helped to take the Grizzlies to new heights and two more than 50 victories, in the oblivion of a Thirtd.
