Yeah, it seems like great way to create a coach pipeline

I would assume it’s the coaches union that has an issue with it

If it were allowed, players could be guilted into doing it rather than taking off in their off season.

Players not being able to coach is neither random nor unnecessary.

Allowing players to “coach” would be a way to circumvent the salary cap and the NBPA isn’t going to let a player coach without pay.

Unions can create rules that seem weird

there is a certain amount of coaches each team can have on the bench. my guess is they don’t want teams to register a coach as a 2 way player or something to get an extra coaching slot.

Rs a labour issue. Players are labour and coaches are management.

They haven’t allowed player-coaches for decades.

no this is how we know why lebron isn’t entertaining player coaching

Agreed. Makes me think about how NFL teams will often allow their starting Quarterbacks to call plays. It’s a great way to teach your players to see things from a broader, more nuanced perspective.

Followed by White guilt when he hears about Keyonte

Celtic privilege extends into the league as well I guess

*Buffalo privilege

Which doesn’t apply in the nba when they often throw fines retroactively when they don’t like what you are doing.

I rather they reject me than potentially having me pay $100k for just coaching for fun.

lol this is 100% the Celtics angle, better to ask for forgiveness than permission

Its a third party lawfirm doing it.

And everyone’s admitting don’t know ish about investigation turn around times in complaining about it.

Coaches union would have an issue with it, it lowers their value. Why would cheap owners pay coaches to coach summer league if they can have players do it for free?

Also cap circumvention. Coaches aren’t subject to the salary cap so you could just hire Derrick White to be your assistant coach and pay him whatever. 

The organization would be officially putting current active players in positions of authority over other current active players on the same team.

You don’t see an issue with that.

This is no different than a rich kid getting an internship. White will have a better chance of getting a coaching job in the future, at the expense of a career coach.

I’d assume it’s part of the coaches and/or players union. Just some red tape bullshit

Did you read the even without compensation part

George was going to be a volunteer coach for one game, exactly the same thing. The only difference is that the Jazz asked for permission first and the Celtics just did it.

You cannot per the CBA. If you think of coaches as management and players as labor that’d be like hiring a manager to also do labor work which is a big nono for unions

The NBA has strictly prohibited teams from employing a “player-coach” since the 1984–85 season, the same year a salary cap was instituted, to avoid cap circumvention.

LeGM has got nothing on Coach-captain Bill Russell

Imagine you work at a Firestone tire shop. You’re on the mechanic staff.

Firestone has a commercial relationship with Toyota. A team of Toyota mechanical engineers who work in corporate who make a lot more money than you think it would be cool to get some hands on experience with cars and have a summer internship learning the basics of being a mechanic. Firestone says they can work at your shop for free, they’re not paying for it. Toyota says cool, don’t worry we’ll still pay their handsome corporate salaries. They bring in a team of engineers and fire you and some of your staff because they got free labor for their close buddies who work somewhere else.

That’s what the coaches union doesn’t want to happen to young and prospective coaches when some guy who makes $30,000,000 a year from another job (point guard for the Boston Celtics) comes in and says he can coach the summer league for free

Coaches union probably doesn’t want active players taking away opportunities from coaches

I’m sad that OP didn’t specify which NBA season.

In my defense, it was 5:30 AM here when I wrote this :p

Yeah there used to be. The CBA hasn’t allowed it in a very long time

Same year they instituted the salary cap, like ~1985. They wanted to eliminate the possibility of cap circumvention such as paying someone as both a player (counts against the cap) and a coach (doesn’t count against the cap) to give them more money.

The reason players still can’t do it for free is likely due to the coaches union. If you’re a coach, having players who are making so much $$ already that they can just volunteer their time for free and take your job away from you isn’t good.

There’s nothing preventing retired players from becoming a coach/scout/etc. immediately after their player contract is up if that’s what they are looking to do.

He was not. He helped at practices, similar to what white did as well but was told he could not act as an assistant coach in a game