Weekly Issue

Coaching salaries have been increasing because the league understands and owners understand the value of quality coaching. So for a new guy to come in who doesn't have that understanding and to go out and chop at the knees of coaches is a slap in the face to our value.

Pistons coach and National Basketball Coaches Association President J.B. Bickerstaff, on the unconventional structure of new Trail Blazers coach Micah Nori's contract.

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