Via Anthony Slater of The Athletic:
When Scott yanked Russell, he’d take the long way back to the bench. Using his right hand, he’s tracing the looping route — from the left wing, meandering down toward the opposite baseline before finally curling to the deepest part of his team’s sideline. It wasn’t subtle. It was done with an obvious purpose.
“So I didn’t have to shake the coach’s hands,” Russell recalled. “I’d do little [s—] like that.”
Then he’d get to the bench, sit next to one of his teammates and grumble. Grumble about Scott, grumble about the imperfect situation he’d been drafted into, grumble like the teenager he was.
Nothing is more fragile than a coach and player’s relationship.
It can cost jobs and careers.
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