Nets Offer Up Worst Job in Sports as a Prize

Filed under: Nets, NBA Coaches

Give credit to the Nets for nothing else but creativity. The struggling franchise has already offered rival uniforms as enticement for locals to buy tickets to IZOD Center. They have given away tickets regularly, and openly. And now, they attempt to give away a coaching job, albeit one which lasts one day only and comes with no real responsibility. (In other words, it's Tom Barrise's Nets coaching career.)

A drawing will end with one lucky sadist taking on what must be the worst job in sports for a day. Imagine, for a moment, the tenor of practice drills with the 4-47 Nets. You might as well get the gang together to go sing "My Way" in a Manila karaoke bar. Hasn't Courtney Lee been humiliated enough without a 47-year-old paralegal in Keds walking him through a weave?

The hook is that in 29 other cities, this would be lovely. It's a brilliant bit of marketing, circumstances aside. Pull the curtain back, treat a fan like a real VIP, ensure future support and positive word-of-mouth, maybe share some laughs with a true outsider. But the Nets are likely leaving North Jersey next year, and the state completely in two years. And the team is so unbelievably awful that I dare say humor has been expended. How on Earth will this winner have a good time?

At least we finally know what really drove Del Harris away: word is this coach-of-the-day was given an equal shot as Harris in getting Kiki Vandeweghe's head coaching gig.

 

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