You Can't Fire the Players, So Eddie Jordan Has To Take the Fall

Eddie Jordan has taken the Wizards to four strait playoff seasons, but as soon as things have started to go wrong, Jordan was fired.  Thanks to his 1-10 start, Jordan has become the second coach fired already in this early season. For the last three seasons, the Wizards have lost to the Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs, with a combined 4-12 record over those past three series and an 8-18 playoff record in his entire tenure with the Wizards. The firing comes on the heels of the astonishing loss to the New York Knicks 122-117, where the Knicks were playing with just seven players at the game after trading their top two scorers but still were able to drain 16 three-point shots. Ivan Carter, who broke the story for the Washington Post, said on ESPN this morning that "this was a classic case of 'you can't fire the players.'" To this point, Jordan was the longest tenured coach in the Eastern Conference and behind just Jerry Sloan (Utah Jazz) and Greg Popovich (San Antonio Spurs) ... (link)