“It’s disturbing. Doc’s a Hall of Famer. … You get past the first round, there’s going to be some really good teams. Great players, great organizations, great coaching staffs that are going to lose. It’s part of the nature of this beast. There’s only so many teams that can advance. It’s just a really hard thing to do. It’s been a tough couple weeks, hearing the news of some really surprising firings” -- Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, on his thoughts of the recent string of coach firings in the NBA -- the latest being 76ers coach Doc Rivers (South Florida SUN SENTINEL, 5/16).
“It took him five seconds and it took them five minutes” -- ESPN’s Mark Jackson, on ESPN’s Jeff Van Gundy looking at a replay which the Nuggets challenged and making the call within seconds while the on-court referees took several minutes to make the same call causing a delay in the game ( “Lakers-Nuggets,” ESPN, 5/16).
