Last Thursday, former Portland Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan joined an exclusive, 19-person fraternity of NBA head coaches to win at least 700 games. In a story celebrating that, Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated looked back on McMillan’s rise towards that milestone, chronicling his years of coaching reluctancy with the Seattle SuperSonics, and soon thereafter with the Blazers, Indiana Pacers, and now, the Atlanta Hawks.
McMillan was particularly humble in recognizing that honor, saying that he hadn’t anticipated the coaching journey going as well as it had for him.