Did Mike D’Antoni Destroy 2 Franchises?

What punk rock was to the sterile, over-produced musical landscape of the 1970s, Mike D’Antoni’s Phoenix Suns were to the early 2000s NBA: uncompromisingly fast and furious, a full-frontal, almost anarchistic threat to the established order.

But like any movement that finds its conscience coopted by the greater culture, D’Antoni has, in the years following his halcyon team’s unlikely ascendance, become just another embattled denizen of the basketball establishment.

For proof, look no further than the New York ...

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