Warriors fire Erman

dragician · Apr 7, 2014

watching game of thrones during practice.

J.R. · Apr 29, 2014

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...istant-fired-secretly-recording-conversations

When Golden State Warriors assistant coach Darren Erman was fired earlier this month, the reason given was a "violation of company policy."

It turns out that Erman's violation was secretly recording conversations between the team's coaches and players, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

Sources said Erman, who was coach Mark Jackson's second assistant, would record coaches' meetings, meetings between the coaches and players, and informal discussions among coaches that took place in the team's coaches room -- all without the participants' knowledge.

"He was taping everything," one source said. "Taping pregame speeches wouldn't have been that bad, but he was taping guys just sitting around talking in the coaches' office."

Sometimes Erman would be present during the tapings. Other times, he would leave the room and leave his phone behind to record conversations the other coaches were having.

It is unclear what Erman did with the recordings. The sources weren't sure whether he shared them with the club's owners or front-office executives.

"Was he taping it for himself or was he taping it for management? That's not known," a source said. "But he had a lot of communication with members of the front office."

The Warriors' other coaches began noticing a change in Erman's demeanor and behavior in March, a source said. A few weeks later, they discovered that he was recording them. After being caught, Erman told the club he had been recording the conversations for three weeks. Jackson kept Erman on his staff for another week before Warriors' management fired him on April 5.

Erman's dismissal was the second bizarre event involving Jackson's staff in less than two weeks. On March 25, management demoted first-year assistant Brian Scalabrine to the club's D-League affiliate in Santa Cruz.

Sources say the team made the move because Scalabrine exhibited a consistent pattern of disrespect toward Jackson and the other coaches. Mainly, he ignored and refused to speak with the other basketball coaches. At one point, Scalabrine went five weeks without speaking to Jackson, one source said.

Scalabrine even avoided the coaches on the team plane, sitting in a separate section, according to one source.

The odd behavior of Erman and Scalabrine is emblematic of the dysfunction that has recently engulfed the Warriors franchise. Although he led the Warriors to 51 wins this season and consecutive playoff appearances for the first time in 22 years, Jackson's job is widely rumored to be in jeopardy.

One source insists that Jackson's relationship with owner Joe Lacob and general manager Bob Myers is fine, which makes his shaky job status hard to understand.
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The Boston Celtics have hired ex-Golden State Warriors assistant coach Darren Erman as director of NBA scouting, Celtics general manager Danny Ainge told Yahoo Sports on Tuesday.

Erman had been the architect of a top-three NBA defense as an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors until his termination three weeks ago.

In the aftermath of his departure from the Warriors, which league sources say stemmed from a single taped conversation of Warriors coaches who had been working to undermine his game preparation and relationships with players, Erman accepted the job to return to Boston, where his NBA coaching career began in 2007.

"Darren worked with us for four years and he was one of the hardest working, most competent and intelligent members of our organization," Ainge told Yahoo Sports. "We welcome him back."

Before agreeing to rejoin the Celtics, Erman had job opportunities that included rejoining Doc Rivers with the Los Angeles Clippers, league sources said.

Erman had worked as a coaching associate under Rivers with the Celtics from 2007-11. Erman also had worked closely with past top assistants Tom Thibodeau and Lawrence Frank on Rivers' staffs.
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TheRealist137 · Apr 29, 2014

Was he trying to catch warriors personnel making racist comments?

GoRox2013 · Apr 29, 2014

J.R. said: ↑

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Someone in the organization is trying to setup Mark Jackson. Damn Warriors! Finally get relevant again, and now you wanna bring down the coach who made it happen? Only in America

J.R. · Apr 29, 2014

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Mark Jackson Requested Jerry West Not Attend Most Warriors' Practices, Team Activities -- <a href="http://t.co/2ir0aVRIpO">http://t.co/2ir0aVRIpO</a></p>— RealGM (@RealGM) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealGM/statuses/461276907330228224">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote>
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hooroo · Apr 29, 2014

How much pull does Mark Jackson have with the GS owners?

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Mark Jackson Requested Jerry West Not Attend Most Warriors' Practices, Team Activities -- <a href="http://t.co/2ir0aVRIpO">http://t.co/2ir0aVRIpO</a></p>— RealGM (@RealGM) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealGM/statuses/461276907330228224">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote>
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The team had no choice but to fire Erman. However, the front office is fond of Erman and was upset at having to let him go, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The Erman firing and demotion of Brian Scalabrine have raised tensions throughout the Warriors’ organization.

Jackson made a show of firing Scalabrine in front of players and other coaches, but he had no real grounds, and the front office made Jackson find a compromise, per a source familiar with the matter: demoting Scalabrine to the D-League. In addition, Jackson has asked that Jerry West, a high-level adviser in Golden State, not attend most practices and team activities, sources say.

The tension with Erman got weird. Midseason, the team moved Erman’s parking spot to a less convenient place, likely at the behest of Jackson or one of Jackson’s allies on the staff, per multiple sources familiar with the matter. They began changing his duties in strange ways.
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Carl Herrera · Apr 29, 2014

J.R. said: ↑

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Mark Jackson Requested Jerry West Not Attend Most Warriors' Practices, Team Activities -- <a href="http://t.co/2ir0aVRIpO">http://t.co/2ir0aVRIpO</a></p>— RealGM (@RealGM) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealGM/statuses/461276907330228224">April 29, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Mark Jackson doesn't want Jerry West to be seen in public with black players?

blahblehblah · Apr 29, 2014

Wow reading all that from Zache Lowe was a bit of a shock. While I've never been a big Mark Jackson fan or his xo's and his rotations, I did give him immense credit for turning the warriors from a perpetually losing team to a 50 win team with back to back playoff appearances in his 3 years of coaching. In addition to the players clearly having love and support for him, I always found it curious and semi insane that his job might be in jeopardy.

But hearing that he requested Jerry West not attend team practices and events might be the straw that broke the camels back for me. I'm still not quite on the replace MJackson bandwagon, but I am getting on the WTF is wrong with the environment there skeptics.

Dr of Dunk · Apr 29, 2014

I've read some freaky stuff, but this is just some .... freaky stuff.

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