When the season began two years ago, nobody knew if Mike Budenholzer could coach.
When the season began last year, we knew he could coach but weren’t sure if he could hold together a franchise that had suffered from a pair of race-infused pratfalls, resulting from severe public humiliation (or as the Atlanta Spirit called it: just another Tuesday).
Consider this the beginning of Budenholzer’s next unlikely test. Two seasons removed from being a career assistant coach, Budenholzer is now an NBA team president.