Rick Carlisle’s response when asked for a follow up after the NBA called his characterization of events inaccurate. “The Aaron Nesmith situation was bothersome… He goes so hard for our organization, I just felt it’s important to support him and support the organization.”
Tony East asked Rick Carlisle for a follow up to the NBAs response to his now viral comments this morning.
“My number one fixation is player health. I have a long history of concern for this going back to all of my head coaching. One of the jobs of the head coach is to manage player health. The Aaron Nesmith situation was bothersome, and it was really bothersome to him. I don’t want to belabor this, it’s time to move on, it’s time to move forward. But player health, and you’ve got a guy like that’s missed a lot of games over the last two years and one reason is because he goes so hard and because he goes so hard for our organization, I just felt it’s important to support him and support the organization. I’ll leave it at that”