When the Suns had the opportunity to promote a life long Sun to the head coaching job, they passed up Thunder Dan for Lindsey Hunter.
Suns fans are familiar with the results, but I’ll summarize: 12-29 in one partial season leading the Phoenix Suns.
Things worked out for Dan Majerle. Instead of staying with the Suns, he was convinced by Jerry Colangelo to take the head coaching position at Grand Canyon University, right at the time the school was moving up to Division 1 for basketball. Here is a fascinating piece about GCU and how Colangelo continues to play a role at the university.