“The mamba vs d12 !! It’s on lol” – @kobebryant

“Yuuuuuuuuup!”

BREAKING: Lakers fans, Mike D’Antoni is your guy for the next 4 years.

Run tell dat!

“Coach D’antoni we were wondering if you would —”

I’LL TAKE IT!

“…find some where more appropriate to sleep tonight, sir. You can’t lay down in the middle of Mr. Buss’s driveway.”

“He just said it was the point of no return. If he holds on much longer, we might never get out of this. We might be in a position where we didn’t make the playoffs, and he didn’t want that for us. He said as a team, we were talented enough to make the playoffs and make a run and that he really wasn’t getting through to us the way he wanted to.”

—Jared Jefferies about Coach D’Antoni in The New York Times

And as you conjure the image of Mike D’Antoni clinging to life, but letting go of your hand anyway so that you can ”save yourself!” you start to think of him endearingly.

leitch:

via Skeets

Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted that Mike D’Antoni has resigned as head coach of the New York Knicks. 

Knicks fans, the D’Antoni era is over. Welcome to the Mike Woodson era, probably. 

In his three and half seasons with the Knicks, D’Antoni took the Knicks to the playoffs once. 

Should Whoopi Goldberg replace Mike D’Antoni as the head coach of the Knicks? I mean, it worked in the movies, so it has to work in real life. Right? She could probably get Amar’e and Melo to play defense. 

Look at these Cavaliers fans behind Mike D’Antoni. Suffices to say, it was a rough year.

In happier times: Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James, Brad Miller (!), and coach Mike D’Antoni about to order some food. I think Dwyane is really happy about those corn dogs.

Playoff wins would suffice as well.

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When Carmelo Anthony goes to sleep this is what he sees.

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