5 NBA Head Coaches Who Should Be Fired By 2023

Thanksgiving is around the corner which means we’re about a month away from 2023. This is a strange NBA season where the Utah Jazz are unstoppable and the Golden State Warriors are incredibly stoppable.

There are a lot of teams struggling to keep their heads above water and it’s far easier to replace a coach than it is to make drastic roster changes midseason so a lot of guys are going to be updating their LinkedIn pages soon.

Quick disclaimer: none of these teams should hire Ime Udoka. Let me make that extremely clear.

So here are the 5 head coach who should be fired by 2023:

1. Chris Finch

The Minnesota Timberwolves went all-in on Rudy Gobert this offseason which was hilarious then and it’s hilarious now. The Timberwolves are one Golden State Warriors big win streak away from being nowhere near the playoff picture.

Anthony Edwards has passed Rudy Gobert the ball 4 out of 125 times in pick-and-rolls situations 🤯

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— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) November 17, 2022

I mean, this can’t be good, right? The Timberwolves gave up their firstborn son to acquire a guy who is pretty much just in the way. The GM isn’t going to fire himself so seeee yaaa, Finch.

2. Tom Thibodeau

It’s genuinely shocking that Tom Thibodeau is still the head coach of the New York Knicks. They made the playoffs 2 years ago despite Thibs’s best efforts to sabotage the team with Elfrid fucking Payton.

Thibodeau is supposed to be a defensive specialist but the Knicks currently rank 21st in defensive rating. Once again, opposing players come into Madison Square Garden and have the best games of their careers.

Last season, the team was atrocious and Thibs battled the front office with his refusal to put Cam Reddish on the court. Now, the Knicks are still middling and the team continues to look rudderless. Tom Thibodeau and Julius Randle need to be filing for unemployment by the end of the week.

3. Billy Donovan

Billy Donovan and Zach LaVine are publicly feuding. The coach is fighting with the second-best player on the team because he benched Lavine in crunch time against the Orlando Magic over the weekend. The Bulls lost 107-108 and Zach was pissed that he wasn’t on the court when it mattered most.

(Zach LaVine was shooting 1-for-14 that night sooo not sure why LaVine thought he could save the team).

The Chicago Bulls are 3 games below .500 with no real roster flexibility to improve their situation which means the coach will be the first one out the door. Seeeeee ya, Billy.

4. Dwane Casey

The Detroit Pistons are 4-15. They are the worst team in the NBA. I could see this team deciding to tank if they weren’t close to the play-in game by the All-Star break but this team has only won 4 games this season following a strong offseason full of sharp moves like drafting Jaden Ivey and acquiring Bojan Bogdanovic.

There is no reason why this team should be *this* bad. When your team is dead last in defensive rating then you have to question the coaching staff and their inability to establish a defensive mentality and make the team give an effort on a nightly basis.

But Dwane Casey will be fine. Last time he was fired, he won the coach of the year. Maybe he’ll win the Mega Millions this time.

5. Doc Rivers

If you follow the daily news cycle then it is impossible to avoid hearing about all of these scammers like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried lying to investors and essentially running Ponzi schemes like Elizabeth Holmes tricking people into investing in Theranos.

Doc Rivers’s name belongs amongst these great scammers like Anna Delvey. Rivers shows up to a super-talented roster, pits the star players against each other, blows a lead in the playoffs and collects millions of dollars. Rinse and repeat.

The Sixers are a .500 team right now and we’re about a week away from him throwing James Harden or Joel Embiid under the bus to save his own withered skin. Just don’t let Doc Rivers buy Twitter.