Kevin Pritchard, evidently, isn’t of like mind with Larry Bird’s arbitrary assertion that coaches grow stale after three seasons because the Indiana Pacers and Nate McMillan are finalizing an extension to keep the rising junior on the sidelines, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
“I couldn’t be prouder to be working next to a man like this,” Pritchard said of McMillan, while getting choked up at the team’s end-of-season press conference. “I saw a different Nate this year. I challenged him every week to try to enjoy, for lack of a better word, the process, and to develop the heck out of this team.