All-Star coaches Scott Brooks (left) and Tom Thibodeau both spent time with ...
ORLANDO -- Apples don't fall far from the tree, they say, which makes it easy enough to find the apples -- if you know where the tree is.The NBA has a forest's worth of coaching trees, many obvious and familiar: Red Auerbach and all the coaches he produced out of the Boston Celtics' dynasty. The University of North Carolina guys (Larry Brown, Doug Moe, George Karl and on and on). Pat Riley's in Los Angeles (Byron Scott), New York (Jeff Van Gundy) and Miami (Erik Spoelstra).
Gregg Popovich has a solid tree going. Phil Jackson's so far is surprisingly small, thanks to the veteran assistants he often favored. Some of them overlap or branch off; Pop, for instance, was a Don Nelson guy, who was an Auerbach guy. But one coaching tree largely overlooked will get its day in the sun Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando: the Bill Musselman tree.
For all their travels in pro basketball, across franchises, leagues and a hundred different influences and lessons, Tom Thibodeau and Scott Brooks shared a season together under Musselman that significantly shaped them as successful future NBA head coaches. Successful enough, after all, that Thibodeau of the Chicago Bulls and Brooks of the Oklahoma City Thunder will coach the East and West All-Star teams this weekend at Amway Center.
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