In an extensive interview with David Letterman for his Netflix series, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” Kevin Durant says that the key to success for NBA coaches is not so much x’s and o’s, but “managing personalities.”
Asked by Letterman what a head coach does “at the NBA level,” Kevin Durant responded, “Managing personalities. I think that’s the biggest thing. We all know how to play. We all know all the terminology. We know every single scheme that can be. But when you got a guy that can set the table for us, then tell us to go eat and let us do our thing, I think that’s the best coach .