They said man would never fly. They said the iPhone would never gain market share. They said one word could not sound like both Yanny and Laurel.
They were wrong.
Time and again, ideas are prematurely relegated to the dustbin of history after being deemed outlandish only to succeed and prove their detractors wrong. It often takes some confluence of perseverance, opportunity, and luck, but it happens.
For the Phoenix Suns, seeing it happen with project big man Dragan Bender after two seasons of less-than-inspiring basketball would be like watching the Wright brothers take flight at Kitty Hawk, and within the organization, there is real optimism new head coach Igor Kokoskov will be the man to crank the propeller.