Dragan Bender is entering his third year in the NBA. He has had two offseasons prior to this one and two training camps. Both previous offseasons and camps were led by arguably the worst head coach in the league as well as franchise history, Earl Watson.
For those of you who already call Bender a bust, it is entirely possible that Bender’s growth has been stunted because of who he had leading him to start his career.
Moving forward, he has also now had three head coaches, the aforementioned Watson, interim Jay Triano for 96.3% of last regular season, and now new hire, Igor Kokoskov.