re: Woj: Pelicans haven't even started interviews yet.

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it would be incompetent for the Pels to not even have started interviewing.

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Usually the interview process happens in a pretty condensed period of time. Say 2-3 weeks for both 1st and 2nd interviews. If there are one or more candidates in the bubble, I can see waiting until everyone is available to start the process rather than spreading the interview process out over several weeks or more.

The last thing you want to do is have your Billionaire boss that owns 2 pro teams waste her time interviewing "early" candidates who then take other jobs while you wait for the Bubble candidates to become available. Wait for the Bubble candidates and start everything at the same time and you won't risk looking like you wasted Gayle's time.

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Well the two people hired so far may not have even been people we were interested in.

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Which is valid, but how did we know those would be the two hired?

I think the answer to your question is that if there was an available candidate that seemed head and shoulders above the pack, he'd have been hired already. The fact that we haven't officially started the process says a lot about the mutual interest level for the non Bubble candidates, besides maybe Lue who we have been tied to but might as well be in the Bubble with him being up for several more playoff ready openings.

would love to know if they even tried to get Donovan.... would be really disappointed to find out we didn't even try to get him...

Come on man

Our insider has spoken, Bunch.

I keep getting double posts for some reason

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What I can say is that it is still on the table.

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No it isn't.
If it was, that hire would have been made by now.

It's pretty obvious that they have a few guys in mind, and there are serious contenders in the bubble that they are waiting to interview, like Unseld and Dan Craig.
They can talk about being patient in this process all they want. If they didn't have strong interest in bubble guys, the hire would have been made by now. There is no reason at all to continue to wait to hire a coach, unless they could care less about winning next year. There are already teams that are staring to prepare for next year. There's nothing positive about waiting to hire someone, just b/c. When you have your guy, you hire him asap. It's important for the players on the team to know who their new coach is going to be, and start developing a relationship with him and figuring out the things they should be working on before training camp.

Someone should be hired before by mid October. I don't understand how you're supposed to draft guys or make trades or FA decisions without a head coach that knows what the frick is going on. The longer they wait, the more i will dislike it, b/c it would appear that Griffin wants to be in complete control of the team with little regard to what the coach wants, which we've already seen with Zion's minutes. I think the decisions he made in Cleveland, all the trading picks away and extending players to stupid contracts, those weren't all his decisions fully, and he doesn't want it like that ever again and wants complete control of the team.
That's likely way D'Antoni and Donovan had no interest over here, or we didn't have any in them b/c they wouldn't just bend over and take it. Griff wants a guy that will be fine with Griff's decisions and not give him any pushback. That's not how a GM/HC relationship should be.

He said we "haven't really conducted formal interviews yet".

Which could mean we have done several informal interviews.

The newest Woj pod just came out. Seems like Philly might be down to Lue and D'antoni.

He said that the teams left with openings aren't necessarily in a rush to make hires and threw out there that teams might not be in a hurry to start paying new coaches and staffs, with the revenue losses from this season, and the uncertainty of when next season will even start.