"Pierce is one of seven African-American head coaches in the NBA, and the roll call was quite easy when he was prompted: Doc Rivers, Alvin Gentry, Nate McMillan, Dwane Casey, J.B. Bickerstaff and Monty Williams."
"That number may seem paltry, considering there are 30 teams and around 75 percent of the players are black, but it’s better than the other major professions sports, particularly the NFL."
We're clearly better than every other league, but that shouldn't be our benchmark,” Rivers, the head coach of the L.A. Clippers, told Yahoo Sports recently. “That's not good enough, in my opinion. Easy excuse, but we should still be better.”
They’ve been better. At the start of the 2012 season, 14 head coaches were black, the highest mark in NBA history.
“The numbers are what the numbers are,” Pierce said. “Is it ever gonna be 12? Is it ever gonna be predominantly black coaches?”
He points upstairs, and while agreeing with Rivers that getting in front of ownership is important, having more color on the executive side is critical.
“How do you know guys are really getting their opportunities? If you start seeing more black coaches in addition to black general managers,” Pierce said. “That's where the growth will be, the perception of opportunity. You'll see more black coaches if you see more black GM’s.”Its as if the author is counting on the public being stupid. The article claims there aren't enough black coaches in the NBA. It states that 23% of NBA coaches are black. However, 13% of the United States is black. Thus blacks are more than fairly represented in the coaching profession. Yet, Yahoo Sports demands that more needs to be done by the league to hire a greater number of black coaches.
Even more significantly, this very same article states "around 75 percent of the players are black, " Is it possible for a left wing journalist to be more double standard? Where is the diversity of NBA players? If coaches should be hired on the basis of skin color, then what about the lack of white players in the league? What about the lack of Asian players in the league? Where is Latino representation?
All NBA playing positions are high paying jobs. How come the left wing news organization has no problem with one group being over represented in this occupation but does have a problem with the coaching profession?
Yahoo's article is outright bigotry and hypocrisy. They want people hired on the basis of skin color but only when it suites their hate-filled agenda.
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