太陽隊Earl Watson是最便宜的新任教頭 - NBA

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Under managing partner Robert Sarver's guidance, the Suns have repeatedly
hired inexperienced or under-experienced staff, which just happens to make it
easy to pay them among the lowest salaries at their positions. The hiring of
Earl Watson to the full-time position last month is no exception.

較有趣是這段，說太陽的老闆Saver一直以來，傾向顧用經驗較少的員工，所以
比起聯盟其他球隊，相同的位子，他可以付出最低的薪資。Earl Watson 也不意外

作者也有附上，今年新上任總教練的薪資表排行

Tom Thibodeau, Timberwolves: $8-10 million per year, 5 years (dual role as
coach and President)

Scott Brooks, Wizards: $7 million per year, 5 years

Frank Vogel, Magic: $5.5 million per year, 4 years

Luke Walton, Lakers: $5 million per year, 5 years

Terry Stotts, Blazers: $4.5-$5 million per year, 4 years total with 1 year
extension on current contract

Dave Joerger, Kings: $4 million per year, 3 years guaranteed +1 option year

Kenny Atkinson, Nets: $2.5 million per year, 4 years (first time head coach)

Earl Watson, Suns: $2.5 million per year*, 3 years (first time head coach)


作者自己下面，也有加個但書

*Eggers says Watson's contract reported at 3 years at 'close to 8 million'.
So I rounded down to a clean $2.5 million per year. It's quite possible
Watson makes a couple dollars more than $2.5, which would put him as only the
second-lowest paid coach.

根據他引用的資料，Earl Watson的合約可能是$7.XXM，接近$8M，比年薪的話，
Earl Watson可能只是倒數第二名。


While Mike D'Antoni and Alvin Gentry were coaching veterans, neither had held
an NBA head coaching job for more than two consecutive seasons before taking
over the helm of the Suns, and both were promoted from an assistant position
to the head job.

All this adds up to the Suns hiring coaches who did not demand high salaries.
As far as I can tell, Sarver has not paid a coach more than $2.5 million per
year since Mike D'Antoni left and the only reason D'Antoni made more money
was because he briefly held the dual role of coach/GM after Bryan Colangelo
left in 2006.


細數Saver近幾年找教頭的軌跡，除了Terry Porter，其他人選都是菜鳥教練，完全沒有
當過總教頭的經驗。作者也推斷，除了D'Antoni因為太陽總管Bryan Colangelo被挖角，
冷笑話自己身兼總管時，可能薪水有多一些外，其餘人選的薪水大概都沒超過2.5M年薪。

Let's hope Earl Watson does well in Phoenix and earns a hefty pay raise
before his contract expires and the Suns promote yet another new coach into
the position.

But if Watson doesn't work out, Sarver's other go-to move is to promote the
veteran journeyman coach from within. One might look at new associate head
coach Jay Triano and see a lot of Alvin Gentry right there.

除了祝福新任教頭，希望Earl Watson可以"加薪"之外。

Saver打的主意算盤，大概就是最近新挖角來的助理教練，Jay Triano。如果Watson被
火了，隊裡還有很多如當年的Alvin Gentry的人選! 只需從自家裡提拔，不需花大錢去
挖角別人。

這作者也列出，去年薪水拿到$2M左右的人

Brett Brown, extended by Sixers, terms unknown
今夏簽了新合約，數字未定

Mike Budenholzer, contract expired this summer, no new contract announced
(but you can expect one)
合約走完，新合約未知數(但預期可以簽到)
Steve Clifford, extended by Hornets, terms unknown
今夏簽了新合約，數字未定

Dave Joerger, let go by Grizzlies, signed with Sacramento for $4 million/year
被灰熊火了，但和國王簽了有$4M的年薪

Jeff Hornacek, fired by Suns, signed with Knicks
在作者文章裡，如果他和尼克簽約，應該有$4M，

心得:整篇文章的重點，大概就只是在說 Robert Sarver很小氣吧

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