Yaxel Lendeborg said he “lost all respect” for Luka Doncic after facing him tonight because he said Doncic was “complaining the entire game.” On his interaction with Doncic: “I told him he sucks. He can’t score on me.” Full soundbite

I'm getting more and more frustrated with bad faith aggregation. I didn't rank the worst coaches in the NBA. There was no list of the 10 worst coaches. That's a straight up lie. I ranked all 30 NBA coaches 1-30. Inevitably the guys with less experience fall closer to the bottom. I've seen a handful of these Sleeper accounts get mad about where I ranked some of these younger coaches, but like, I can't justify ranking Tiago Splitter above guys who have lengthy, successful track records off of a single season. That doesn't mean I think he's one of the worst coaches in the NBA. It means it's hard to evaluate most coaches off of a single season. For the record, I find myself pretty intrigued with Iisalo. He has a really unconventional approach that I suspect will work better with a younger roster than it did with Ja and Jaren. I write the same thing in the introduction to this story every year: there are way, WAY more good coaches than bad ones, and most of the job is invisible and impossible to fairly evaluate anyway. If there's such a thing as a "worst" coach conversation, it usually consists of like two or three guys who tend to get replaced pretty quickly. But nuance and aggregation don't mix, so here we are.

1/ Fourteen years ago this week, I released the first episode of what is now Basketball Record podcast (guest @34billy42). What began as a passion project has remained exactly that - a place to dig into the basketball history I love and share stories that deserve more attention.