First off, I think most black coaches are “shut them up hires,” just hire a black coach to shut them up type deal. They’re token public relations hires who do not get the full support of the GMs and owners with long term deals and spending the money to bring in enough talent to win now. With George Karl and Mike Dunleavy, they got unprecedented deals from my team’s owner Herb Kohl to get it turned around. Dunleavy got a nine year deal to come from the Lakers to coach the Bucks and Karl was the highest paid coach in history at 5 million and one percent ownership stock in the team. Others are not given the money, the trust or the time to get anything done. One year or if they are lucky two years ... and then, yes, many black players sell them out ... and let them down by not playing hard for them. But they play hard for “the master.“ So, yes and no. In many cases, it is the GM who should be fired not the coaches! Jim Paxson should be gone, not Silas. And before that, John Lucas should have stayed. Soon Porter will be gone here too. But in all fairness, white coaches get fired too now. This is not a black man witch hunt. But by and large, white coaches are given a longer string than black coaches. Byron Scott has it all figured out. Instead of playing games with these hooks, he went out and got a bunch of white role players who want to play hard and win. I would probably think this was a good idea for his job survival. But if you do this in another vocation you are called a “sell out.”
--MilBucksPlay2Win

It always amazes me to watch how black coaches have to struggle through the ranks to get hired and then when they are not as successful as envisioned by the owners, they are let go. Usually they have long periods of unemployment or they fade away and never get another opportunity to coach. Meanwhile, their white counterparts often times get fired and find themselves re-hired the following season. It is an extremely racist system in the coaching ranks. Paul Silas is an excellent coach and he is very knowledgeable of the game. He has brought LeBron James along very well. Maurice Cheeks found himself in a lame-duck situation where management never really respected him as being the head coach. He had discipline problems with the likes of Darius Miles and other situations that led to his demise. I remember a coach named Dick Motta who was notorious for having losing seasons and bad teams but he managed to stay employed. There are a number of assistant coaches who are terrible coaches but they manage to keep employment because of the good ole boy system.
--DIZJAZZ

I think it's the owners. Owners hire black coaches to relate with the majority of their players. They feel that the players will respond better. At the same time, they won't give them the same leeway they would give a white head coach. White coaches can have consecutive losing seasons, while a black coach will get fired in midseason. It happened to Byron Scott in New Jersey and Doc Rivers in Orlando last year. Paul Silas gets tossed and Brendon Malone will get credit for leading the Cavs to the playoffs. The sad part about Silas is he led the Hornets to consecutive playoffs and got fired after their first year in New Orleans. That team is now the laughing stock of the league. He went to Cleveland to change their losing ways and got screwed for the second time as a coach. Don't be surprise to see Silas in Charlotte again because of black owner Bob Johnson and GM/Coach Bernie Bickerstaff.
--BiggDogg055

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