I remember it like it was yesterday. Alvin Gentry, freshly soaked in champagne yelling into the camera to Anthony Davis. Still technically a coach for the champion Golden State Warriors but already the next head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans Gentry was sending a message to his superstar.
Some time just before this Gentry had said something else. Something that also caught my ear and lingered, creating a shroud of doubt around Gentry's selection as head coach. It was a message not to a future player, but to a past colleague in Mike D'Antoni.